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We are From the Bottom and We're Coming for the Top!

by sum anarcho feminists
just some theory ;3
More often than not, the pendulum can swing either right or left. It is a myth that we are at odds. It is still a spectrum built on the social hierarchy created by capitalist colonizers. The spectrum built on social privilege is the dominant hegemony in which we all live under. This is why as anarchist feminists, we rebuke the idea of being labeled leftists! We are from the bottom and we're coming for the top! We will fight back against anyone and everyone who oppress us.

Women; cis, trans or gender bending femmes are still on the bottom of the hierarchal pyramid. We are the poor, disabled, Black, Indigenous femmes of color society has deemed disposable since 1492. As a collective of femme radicals living under the disgusting grab them by the pussy fascism, we invite our more privileged comrades to really evaluate how they benefit from the structures of power we were all born into. How do you benefit from our oppression? From the virtue signaling to the word "allyship" without any material action, how are you still holding onto fascist ideologies? When you are called in for your behavior are you prepared to listen and asses? Defensiveness is a tactic used in social hierarchies to protect status and we will not stand for it a second longer.

Radical masculines, white people and the abuse apologists, are you prepared to let your social power go in the name of LIBERATION???

We are referring to the on going abuse we have experienced in these so called "radical" spaces. These spaces have never been safe for us! We knew this all along but we are damn sick of it being true. It is not divisive to call out abuse and protect ourselves against those who have not yet unlearned the social conditions which oppress the other. It is our duty to hold each other accountable and push our comrades to evolve. If your fragility refuses to be humbled, then we will be forced to come for you as we do the rest of our oppressors. The left can be just as oppressive as the right, it is a spectrum of hierarchy and we are ready to tear it down!

We invite other abolitionists to truly imagine what a world without the prison industrial complex will actually look like, for real. With the increase of fascist laws to incriminate and incarcerate, screaming " fire to the prisons" isn't going to save us. Banging on pans outside a prison isn't going to set them free. Just because we wish for a world without prisons does not mean we will be a world without consequences. Bad things happen, bad people exist - what do we do as a community to hold these people accountable outside of the prison industrial complex? How can we unlearn the ideologies that oppress and hurt others? How do we build the world we need without racism, sexism, poverty, etc so we are not forced into "crime" but radical sustainability?

If we truly want a world without prisons we must learn how to value conflict as an opportunity to grow and learn. Not perpetuate state colonial violence!! Only then, will we truly be able to heal what society has engrained in us to stay divided.
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