Might we find ourselves so accustomed to repairing conflict and harm, nurturing real safety, strengthening community, and meeting our collective needs that we’ll remember criminalization confounded why we ever thought it could heal our wounds.

I wonder if recovery feels like how we’ll all experience a future without state violence, incarceration, apartheid, and genocide.

It’s about truly meeting my needs. It’s about embracing and moving through my feelings. It’s about asking for help. It’s about discovering myself and respecting the person I find. It’s about connecting with people heart to heart, not liver to liver. It’s about enjoying adventure that I’ll remember.

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#anticapitalism #nonprofit #abolition

We will provide a watering hole for solidarity and storytelling that mobilize us toward liberation, experimenting within and outside of the structures we inherited to dismantle oppressive structures.

So, I’m teaming up with some beloved comrades to create a new thing. Anticapitalist Solidarity for Nonprofit Workers (ASNW) is an emerging abolitionist coalition of burning and burnt-out nonprofit workers who struggle through the industry’s complicity in capitalism.

It’s not just that our efforts fail to address the structural, economic causes of the poverty and injustice we aim to heal, it’s that our institutions reproduce the same capitalist conditions. Those of us who struggle through these truths feel stuck and alone.

We’re curious about the root causes of harm and seek repair there. We revere consent. We apologize all the time. We want good for each other.
I just want that for literally everyone everywhere.
#abolition

I am an abolitionist because I’m a parent. My children could do nothing to which I would respond by removing them from our family. We always seek reconnection, healing, and wisdom gardened from our mistakes, never punishment.

We should focus on preventing, stopping, and healing harm rather than repurposing anti-Black and colonial concepts against capitalists. This doesn’t let them off the hook, it gets us closer to the root of violence. It inches us closer to accountability.