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Doom! Doom! Doom!: A Rough Draft on Rape Culture in Anarchist Subcultures

if you know me, you know that i have initiated an accountability process with one of my organizing communities. these are some of the issues i’ve faced lately that are articulated in this piece:

‎”Of course now we are faced with a new wave of anti-violence activists, who lament the stigmatized nature of the word perpetrator, and now advocate the even more watered down term “person who causes harm”. Perhaps it’s time to realize that if a perpetrators capacity to change is not broadly recognized, that is a result of their own actions more so than the words we use to describe them. This is not to say that we should not choose our words strategically, or that we should not use them with strong intention, but only that our apparent obsession with language has serious drawbacks. At best, it leaves us caught in a never ending loop to find the right words rather than addressing our more meaningful shortcomings. At worst, it preserves the power dynamics of Rape Culture by attributing fault to survivors and their supporters rather than perpetrators and their apologists.”

“Even questions of immediate safety, such as sharing space with a perpetrator, are subject to the discretion of false supporters. Again we see radical language turned against survivors, as their demands for space within their community are twisted by false supporters and likened to the prison system (for not making rehabilitation the only goal, or “punishing” a perpetrator) or openly referred to as an attempt to “banish” the perpetrator. Of course the insincerity of these concerns are revealed as they provide the pretext to banish the survivor from the community instead.”

petrushkab:

Hey tumblrfolks.

A friend and I wrote this article, and we need some critiques/edits/ideas/arguments against/reviews/etc… etc… about it. We figured since most of our friends who read it know where we’re coming from, and are perhaps, limited in that way in terms of their critiques, it would be a…