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Submit a resource to the library.by Florence Ashley
A blog post about disposability within trans communities
Linkby Clementine Morrigan and Jay
A zine by Clementine Morrigan and Jay
by Porpentine Charity Heartscape
A first person treatise on the weaponisation of punishment against those who cannot stop it from happening, namely trans women, conveyed with complex prose and focused on creative and spiritual survival
Linkby Kai Cheng Thom
A triumphant and tender poetry and prose work centred on healing from transfeminine disposability.
A group of facilitators and creative practitioners working within a transformative, embodied consent driven framework to bring about an education around justice, harm, anticarceral social support, and anti disposability
Linkby Gemini Eye
A cute and optimistic song about “the germ” of cancellation
Linkby Apes of the State
A sick ass folk punk song about needing absolutely all of us to resist and build against corpo-fascist death cult logics. “So if you fuck up I’ll still be your friend, cause if we hate cops we can’t act like them.”
Linkby They Talk Sex
How does social standing relate to sexuality and dating? Have you ever been ostracized for reasons unclear, or been targeted in a smear campaign? Licensed counselor Halle Thomas joins me to discuss the complex issues and impacts of cancel-bullying.
Linkby Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg
A crucial new lens on repentance, atonement, forgiveness, and repair from harm—from personal transgressions to our culture's most painful and unresolved issues.
Linkby The Augustine Fellowship
Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous, or SLAA, is a Twelve Step, Twelve Tradition oriented Fellowship based on the model pioneered by Alcoholics Anonymous. SLAA is open to anyone who knows or thinks they have a problem with sex addiction, love addiction, romantic obsession, co-dependent relationships, fantasy addiction and/or sexual, social and emotional anorexia.
Linkby Possibility Seeds
Divesting from punitive approaches and working productively with people who have caused harm are necessary components of an institution's survivor-centered approach to addressing campus gender-based violence…
Linkby Dominic Barter et al.
A specific systemic approach to conflict whose development began with the work of Dominic Barter and young favela residents in Rio de Janeiro in the mid 1990s and continues with a growing community both in Brazil and internationally.
Linkby The Navigate Org
We facilitate people, organisations and movements through conflict, providing the support needed for everyone to be understood, to listen to what is important to others, and to discover what needs to evolve. If we can bring sufficient support to a conflict, it can be a rich source of learning and transformation.
Linkby anonymous refused
A critique of the logic of "safer spaces" and accountability processes, first written in 2014 as a result of discussions in the UK left scene.
Linkby carla bergman and Nick Montgomery
Why do radical movements and spaces sometimes feel laden with fear, anxiety, suspicion, self-righteousness and competition? The authors call this phenomenon rigid radicalism: congealed and toxic ways of relating that have seeped into radical movements, posing as the ‘correct’ way of being radical. In conversation with organizers and intellectuals from a wide variety of currents, the authors explore how rigid radicalism smuggles itself into radical spaces, and how it is being undone.
Linkby Mark Fisher
We need to learn, or re-learn, how to build comradeship and solidarity instead of doing capital’s work for it by condemning and abusing each other. This doesn’t mean, of course, that we must always agree – on the contrary, we must create conditions where disagreement can take place without fear of exclusion and excommunication.
Linkby The Leftist Cooks
A Video Essay on Justice by the Leftist Cooks.
Linkby Anonymous
An examination of the abuse structures present in accountability processes and how people are subjected to communal abuse and violence through them, published on the anarchist library site
Linkby Desmond Tutu and Mpho Andrea Tutu
All of us have at times needed both to forgive and be forgiven - whether small, everyday harms or real traumas. But the path to forgiveness is not easy, and the process unclear. How do we let go of resentment when we have been harmed, at times irreparably? How do we forgive and still pursue justice?
by A Conspiracy to Arm Self-Care
Despite what some believe, patterns of harm or abuse can be broken and left in the cemetery of the past. Every individual has the power to break those patterns and redefine and recreate their self. Who you are is not defined by someone else, a group of people or even the political ideas you may possess. Ultimately you are responsible for your actions – which include any and all changes you make to yourself that ultimately determine your actions moving forward. Any or all mistakes you made in the past – or even yesterday – don’t have to define who you could be today… Every individual has the potential to overcome obstacles (whether imposed by society or carried on from personal trauma) that stand in the way of personal change. We (the authors of this text) believe that rebellion isn’t only a business district littered with burning cars and broken glass but also an internal transformation that liberates an individual from the indoctrinated ways people have been conditioned to relate to one another. And that also includes the often harmful ways we each tend to treat ourselves. This text was written by an informal collective of canceled and/or socially banned individuals who, rather than resigning from a life of anarchy believe in expanding it to include survival and growth beyond the politics of social banishing.
Linkby Jon Ronson
New York Times bestselling book on public shaming
by Franz Kafka
A short story about the futility and barbarity of carceral punishment and symbolic degradation. A man identified only as the Traveler arrives at an island penal colony. He is being shown an execution device, whose purpose and operation are explained to him by a man known as the Officer.
Linkby Chris Boden
A video about losing everything to prison and social punishment and fighting forward anyway.
Linkby Billie Bracken
A text responding to discussions around cancel culture and the practice of transformative justice (TJ) within our movements, originating from the 2024 Earth First! Winter Moot.
Linkby Heinrich Böll
The story deals with the sensationalism of tabloid news and the political climate of panic over Red Army Faction terrorism in the 1970s in the Federal Republic of Germany. The main character, Katharina Blum, is an innocent housekeeper whose life is ruined by an invasive tabloid reporter and a police investigation when the man with whom she has just fallen in love turns out to be wanted by the police because of a bank robbery. The book's fictional tabloid paper, Die Zeitung (The Newspaper), is modelled on the actual German Bild-Zeitung.
Linkby Joreen
This classic from 1976 describes many dynamics we see in today’s cancel culture including envy as a primary motivation for canceling.
Linkby Max Graves
A comic about what happens next
Linkby Caroline Hopper and Laura Tavares, the Greater Good magazine, University of California at Berkeley
We’re living in an era of deep divisions. Cable television, social media feeds, and fraying personal relationships all reflect the same troubling pattern: Differences of opinion quickly escalate into attacks, mistrust, and civic stalemates.
Linkby Hanif Abdurraqib
An instagram post by Hanif Abdurraqib reflecting on the concepts of innocence and goodness in relation to the execution of Marcellus Williams.
Linkby Daniel Trottier, Qian Huang, and Rashid Gabdulhakov
An open access book offering "a common set of concepts to help make sense of online shaming practices, accounting for instances of discrimination and injury that morally divide readers and at times risk unjust and disproportionate harm to those under scrutiny".
Linkby Dr. Devon Price
Systemic Shame is the socially engineered self-loathing that says we are solely to blame for our circumstances. It tells us that poverty is remedied by hard-working people pulling themselves up by their bootstraps, that marginalized people are personally responsible for solving the problem of their own oppression, and that massive global crises like climate change can be solved with individual action. Feeling overwhelmed? That’s your problem, too. The more we try and ultimately fail to live up to impossible societal standards of moral goodness, the more shame we feel—and the more we retreat into isolation and despair.
Linkby Kai Cheng Thom
A short essay about the dynamics, cycles, and revolving roles of social shaming and isolation in leftist organizing.
Linkby Alter Ego
Friendly critics draw a distinction between the goals and methods of social justice activism. While the intentions are good, the dominant display of social justice activism is contributing to a political culture that strips complex issues of nuanced discussion. There are no two sides to the debate, not even multiple perspectives on a complex issue, but instead a subtle but powerful moral pressure to conform to the prevailing social justice orthodoxy, for fear of being labeled racist or oppressive. Think moral outrage, cancel culture, middle class women being derogatorily referred to as Karens, or the dilemma for people who resonate with JK Rowling’s opinions on biological sex, but in no way want to be transphobic. Even if activists are completely right on these issues, this isn’t a good strategy to get the rest of the world on board. We are in a paradoxical landscape where unacknowledged trauma shapes all sides, and the dominated become the dominators, balkanising into smaller tribes that speak largely to their in-group. This highly polarising activism plays into the hands of the far right who capitalise on an increasing allergy to ‘woke’ activism. It’s Trump’s trump card in the 2020 US presidential election. Our intuition is that these polarising tendencies have psychological roots that need to be understood and integrated. The promise is a mature form of activism that can vigorously stand with those who are oppressed, whilst finding a language and form that inspires the majority to stand with us. Not from a place of fear or silent coercion, but empathy and integrity.
Linkby Madison Morrigan
Madison and Kai Cheng speak on transformative justice, being a “helper” in the world and a nuanced view on wholeness, “othering” and dealing with harm.
Linkby D Hunter
Part autobiographical account from Hunter, part a call to arms for leftist knowledge building around poverty and precarity, and a plea for solidarity and mutual aid against this backdrop. Though not directly a book about cancelling, there are overlaps with aforementioned precarity and also ostracisation
A confidential, anonymous helpline for people who use or are at risk of using abuse and control in their intimate partnerships.
Linkby Jay Lesoleil and Clementine Morrigan
Fucking Cancelled is a socialist podcast by Jay Lesoleil and Clementine Morrigan challenging cancel culture, identitarianism, and 'social justice' orthodoxy in order to build of an effective and organized Left based in solidarity.
Linkby Renee DiResta
What we used to call influence has become something violently toxic. Renée DiResta gives us a powerful original framing to explain how it now shapes public opinion through a virtual rumor mill of niche propagandists.
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