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Roxy Davis

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(she/her) Social psychology PhD candidate at UCSC studying the criminal court system and the criminalization of poverty and homelessness

Joined April 2013
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The resource collection "So is this Actually an Abolitionist Proposal or Strategy?" (interruptingcriminalization.…) kicks off with a list that we return to often, from @survivepunishNY's Preserving Punishment Power. We ask of each reform:
Very pale green text on a dark green background reads: "So is this Actually an Abolitionist Proposal or Strategy? A collection of resources to aid in evaluation and reflection compiled by Interrupting Criminalization, Project Nia & Critical Resistance. Relying on the thinking and work of many, we begin the binder with a list from Survived & Punished NY that we return to, time and time again. We ask of each reform:" The logo of Survived & Punished, broken cuffs, is in black and white.

ALT Very pale green text on a dark green background reads: "So is this Actually an Abolitionist Proposal or Strategy? A collection of resources to aid in evaluation and reflection compiled by Interrupting Criminalization, Project Nia & Critical Resistance. Relying on the thinking and work of many, we begin the binder with a list from Survived & Punished NY that we return to, time and time again. We ask of each reform:" The logo of Survived & Punished, broken cuffs, is in black and white.

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p.s. The UC's refusal to give lecturers a fair contract is what is hurting students' ability to learn. Lecturer churn hurts their ability to learn. Lecturer poverty hurts their ability to learn. Lecturers' teaching conditions are students' learning conditions. Rinse. repeat.
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Every time a strike has happened in my 2.5 short years at the UC, faculty's first worry is "We don't want to hurt the students' ability to learn." Strikes are meant to hurt. That's the point. Full stop. Cancel your classes.
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Until a STRIKE is on the table, UC admin CANNOT hear us, because we aren't yet speaking their language. To all my fellow lecturers: stand together and DEMAND a #FairContractNow To all our students, TAs and tenure-track colleagues: stand with us, so we can fully be there for you!
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the only reason most people aren’t homeless is due to sheer luck. people will do mental gymnastics to avoid that reality but the sooner we all accept that the sooner we can start treating our neighbors like people and not some societal burden
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“Being personally thrilled with someone going to prison is anyone’s prerogative.... Let’s be clear though: advocating for someone’s imprisonment is not abolitionist. Mistaking emotional satisfaction for justice is also not abolitionist.” - @prisonculture, #WeDoThisTillWeFreeUs
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I can’t emphasize this enough— state and city officials literally engineer the conditions of poverty and conflict and then cite these things as the reason to fund militarized police forces instead of reducing poverty & or preventing violence.
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The third largest military force in the world is the US police.
Image from Prof Zenkus (@anthonyzenkus)
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In anticipation of @copsoffearth’s #AbolitionMay, the Cops Off Campus Research Collective is hosting “Study, Organize, Abolish: A Cops Off Campus Research Workshop” Friday, April 23 from 3-4:50 p.m. ET (12-1:50 p.m. PT)! Registration link: eventbrite.com/e/study-organ…
Image from abolition.university (@abolitionu)
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remember when the Bucks went on a strike to protest police violence and other teams followed? Remember when Obama called LeBron and Chris Paul and told them to stop striking? And to emphasize voting? And to vote for the man pledging millions of dollars to police? Remember this?
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jwb@jwbernier7 Apr 2021
When academics don’t see themselves as workers they do so to the detriment of the laboring conditions of everyone else in this system. People whose jobs are contingent keep laying this out, but it feels like not everyone has grasped it.
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We have ~150 copies of You Are Holding This, Issue 001 left from our 2nd edition printing! Thanks to all who have shared pictures and videos of your zine online. Love seeing you holding it, hanging it up on your walls, taking it to the park Order here: forms.gle/Z6P8ZijUf7bEiYid6
Image from Benjamin Lundberg Torres Sándwich 🥪🥪 (@b_lts_)
WE BE IMAGINING (@WeBeImagining) profile pictureWE BE IMAGINING@WeBeImagining7 Apr 2021
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“[You Are Holding is] an invitation for folks directly impacted by systems of family regulation, policing, and surveillance within the Child Welfare Industrial Complex to gather our creative expressions and to know one another.” americanassembly.org/we-be-i…
You Are Holding This: an abolitionist zine for and by adopted and fostered people is an invitation for folks directly impacted by systems of family regulation, policing, and surveillance within the Child Welfare Industrial Complex to gather our creative expressions and to know one another. In thinking about abolition we desire to be in relationship with, and draw connection to the work and lineage of other abolitionist movements (against prisons, police of all kinds, death penalty, borders, and more.) The only theme is abolition. The zine is being sold for $5 a copy + shipping to support printing, and to support future issues. Issue 001 features the expressions of kimura byol-nathalie lemoine, Daniel Drennen El Awar, X, BreAnne Carolina Vinchattle Huircán, Leah Nichols, and Benjamin Lundberg Torres Sánchez on a two-sided, full-color broadsheet with cover art by Leah Nichols.

ALT You Are Holding This: an abolitionist zine for and by adopted and fostered people is an invitation for folks directly impacted by systems of family regulation, policing, and surveillance within the Child Welfare Industrial Complex to gather our creative expressions and to know one another. In thinking about abolition we desire to be in relationship with, and draw connection to the work and lineage of other abolitionist movements (against prisons, police of all kinds, death penalty, borders, and more.) The only theme is abolition. The zine is being sold for $5 a copy + shipping to support printing, and to support future issues. Issue 001 features the expressions of kimura byol-nathalie lemoine, Daniel Drennen El Awar, X, BreAnne Carolina Vinchattle Huircán, Leah Nichols, and Benjamin Lundberg Torres Sánchez on a two-sided, full-color broadsheet with cover art by Leah Nichols.

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imo more than liberalized ‘acceptance’ trans & queer kids need spaces to learn/teachers to teach the radical histories of queer struggle & coalitional political work
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Low-income students having to excel in order to get financial aid while rich kids can just bulshit their way through school is a good example of why meritocracy isn't real.
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When you hear that an unhoused person “refused services” that includes... - refused to give up their pet to get a short-term hotel room - the shelter they were offered a space in isn’t safe for their gender/sexuality - couldn’t consolidate all their belongings into two bags
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We are sunflowers and our collective liberation is the sun. Another world is possible. Now that it is Spring, let tenderness bloom.🌻
Image from SA Smythe (@essaysmythe)
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96% of workers voted to strike at colombia university. They now need cash for their strike fund. Throw them some cash and support the strike! gofundme.com/f/solidarity-wi…
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