acknowledgment & honoring

I am able to do this because of the work of many. I’m able to do this because of people organizing for economic justice, for indigenous, Black, immigrant, disabled, trans, and global liberation, and organizing to dismantle carceral systems. My dreams have shape because of them.

This work is my tiny offering towards building “healthy, self-determined communities and…alternatives to the current system” in Critical Resistance’s mission statement. Towards creating the conditions for communities to resolve harm. My offerings are made possible because of all those, known and unknown, working for abolition. I owe what I know to those who live indigenous peacemaking, community accountability, local and homegrown justice, transformative justice, and restorative justice.

I owe everything I am and everything I have to those who have worked for freedom. And to those who simply tried to love and survive.

And to my parents, Rehana Shariff and Ali Jami Nusrat, who loved deeply and deserved better.

We all deserve better.