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One thing led to another, and at the beginning of October, we found ourselves strong-arming my family into watching “The Texas Chain Saw Massacre” (the original 1974 film, of course) as part of my best-friend-mandated cultural education in slasher films.
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While many prisons and jails released prisoners early at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, their population numbers have started climbing again, and there has been no concerted effort to release those in danger from the virus as a preventative measure.
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What would drive someone to go so far as to lie about who they are for the sake of a career? I didn’t realize, though, that this was a question that would soon hit much closer to home.
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To some people, though, I have always been defined by my gender.
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When it comes to names with kanji, it becomes possible to mix past and present by changing only the reading or the kanji.
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Some New York jails have been reported to have infection rates as much as 80 times the infection rate of the United States, while the infamous Rikers Island jail complex has an infection rate more than 4.5 times higher than New York City does, according to The Legal Aid Society. These numbers raise concerns about infection rates and health conditions in detention facilities across the country, where, in total, 2.3 million people are incarcerated.
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The original tweets, however, spawned a conversation that brought into the public eye what had previously been a relatively niche far-right ideology: ecofascism.
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Consider, as a starting point, a world without prisons. There are a lot of pieces to fill in, yes, but this is a good place to start.
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It’s hard to convince others of the practicality of prison abolition because carceral logic, or approaching the creation of a just and functioning society through punitive structures, is so embedded in how we view the world.
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It didn’t start with telling other people how I wanted to be seen, though. It began by looking in a mirror, seeing myself and coming to terms with who the person looking back at me was.
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