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We Will Not Cancel Us
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<p><strong>Cancel culture addresses real harm...and sometimes causes more. It’s time to think this through.</strong></p><p>“Cancel” or “call-out” culture is a source of much tension and debate in American society. The infamous “<em>Harper’s</em> Letter,” signed by public intellectuals of both the left and right, sought to settle the matter and only caused greater division. Originating as a way for marginalized and disempowered people to take down more powerful abusers, often with the help of social media, cancel culture is seen by some as having gone “too far.” Adrienne maree brown, a respected cultural voice and a professional mediator, reframes the discussion for us, in a way that points to possible ways beyond the impasse. Most critiques of cancel culture come from outside the milieus that produce it, sometimes from even from its targets. Brown explores the question from a Black, queer, and feminist viewpoint that gently asks, how well does this practice serve us? Does it prefigure the sort of world we want to live in? And, if it doesn’t, how do we seek accountability and redress for harm in a way that reflects our values?</p>
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“A little book that gives some background on an essay, shares the updated essay, and then gives food for thought. I am adding it to my bookshelf because I believe that I will return to it and understand it more the more I learn about transformative justice and abolitionism.
“WE ARE STILL BEGINNING
I've been thinking a lot about transformative justice lately.
In the past few months I've been to a couple of gatherings I was really excited about, and then found myself disappointed, not because drama kicked up, which is inevitable, but because of how we, as participants and organizers and people, handled those dramas.
Simultaneously I've watched several public take-downs, call outs, and other grievances take place on social and mainstream media. Some of those have been of strangers, but recently I've had the experience of seeing people I know and love targeted and taken down.
In most cases, very complex realities get watered down into one flawed aspect of these people's personalities, or one mistake or misunderstanding. A mob mentality takes over then, an evisceration of character that is punitive, traumatizing, and isolating.” (P65)”
Sonam Dechen
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“The idea was there, but I feel like it was executed weirdly.”
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About adrienne maree brown
adrienne maree brown is the author of Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds; Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good; co-editor of Octavia’s Brood: Science Fiction from Social Justice Movements; cohost of How to Survive the End of the World and Octavia’s Parables; and founder of the Emergent Strategy Ideation Institute.
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