police
A Fresh Framework: The Feminism of the Abolition Movement
The police are not a feminist institution—they’re both the footsoldiers and the benefactors of racism, sexism, misogynoir, colonialism, and violence.
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No Crime, No Punishment: #8toAbolition Imagines a Future without Police and Prisons
Societal definitions of the violent and criminal are designed to absolve the violence and criminality inherent to our white-supremacist capitalist system.
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Abstract Pain: George Floyd and the Viral Spectacle of Black Death
Black people’s deaths at the hands of police officers are, like everything now, mediated through the internet, with the negotiation of life and death spread through videos that go viral.
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More Than Stans: Stop Dismissing the K-pop Fandom’s Political Power
Anyone who’s paying attention to how K-pop stans use social media aren’t surprised that they’ve mobilized on behalf of a larger social movement.
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A Wrinkle in White Supremacy: Even Time Travel Can’t Stop Police Brutality
Time lines merge into an inescapable eternity; there’s no reprieve from injustice.
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Performance over Activism: On Instagram, White Makeup Artists Are Profiting off of Black Death
We must remain critical of any online “activism” that doesn’t offer recourse for action.
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Tony McDade and Other Trans People Deserve Better than Deadnaming
It’s not accurate to call a trans person by incorrect pronouns, or a name that isn’t, and never was, their name.
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What Just Happened?: The Murder of George Floyd
Now is the time to rise up, and people across the United States are meeting that demand.
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Posthumous Humanity: Remembering Botham Jean, the Lone Police Victim Media Properly Covered
The coverage of Botham Jean’s death represents a course correction for media coverage of police brutality against Black victims, but there were still glaring errors.
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Social Media as Image Management: How Cops Are Using TikTok to Distract from Police Brutality
While in full gear, an officer tells TikTok users that he’s their new dad, he’ll tuck them into bed, and he’ll and let them stay up late playing video games.
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