No Justice, No Peace - All Our Trials (feat. Jakaila Scaife)

Not every woman is a forgotten woman
Jim Crow, and the narrative of black women
As subject to white men’s whims
Are tools in the arsenal of racism
Black, indigenous, Native American, Chicana
Latina, Asian American, socialist, and lesbian
Women and feminists
Transformed the nation through anti-violence politics
Their multiracial feminist rebukes of respectability
Grounded solidarity in difference
Teaching these, the most dangerous of women
How to resist instead of being passive
They heralded in a radical print revolution
With new leftists, antiracist radicals
Gay liberationists, feminists, and antipsychiatry activists
Forming together an underground press
No holds barred
They stepped Through The Looking Glass
To identify as outlaws
And advocate alternatives to a criminal-justice centered approach
To preventing sexual and domestic violence
Two sisters, one struggle
They taught each other self-defense
Sharing lists of self-protection tips
And three-tiered community resources lists
With a common enemy in the racist, sexist justice system
They were not content to expose those who pulled the trigger
As the state had propensity to engage in violence
Against those who posed threats to the racial, economic, and gender order
The murder of black women is a manifestation of the interlocking relationship
Between racism and sexism
Irreducible to individual perpetrators
The anticarceral current of the 70’s and 80’s
And the feminist prison abolitionism of the 21st century
Share a genealogy
That reminds us of the interdependence of struggles
The multiplicity of feminisms
And the power of coalition

Written by:
Rebekah Gordon

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