"We are not broken people to be fixed, but experts on survival who understand what justice actually requires."

"Until reproductive justice and climate movements truly center incarcerated voices—not just as statistics or afterthoughts, but as essential contributors to these conversations—their work remains incomplete."

"To call abolition 'menopause justice' is to reject the systems that criminalize, punish, and neglect aging bodies, especially those of Black, Brown, queer, trans, immigrant, and poor people whose lives are too often deemed disposable."

"Abolition is not simply tearing down prisons and policing, it is the reimagining of a world where our bodies at every stage, including midlife and beyond, are held with care, dignity, and freedom."

“Like domesticated animals, we learn that resistance brings pain and compliance brings relief. This conditioning, this breaking of the spirits, is perhaps the cruelest aspect of solitary confinement for women.”

“In solitary, we aren’t just punished with isolation, we’re also forced to witness and experience cycles of abuse so routinely that they become normalized.”

Kwaneta Harris: @kwanetaharris.bsky.social
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Solitary Watch: @solitarywatch.bsky.social
Truthout: @truthout.org

When our community is disappeared locally — disappeared from life into prisons — people on both sides of the bars are punished.

Holing human beings away does nothing to help society, heal community — and it disrupts their families, their loved ones, their children.

Here's a chance to mitigate harm