#SurvivedAndPunishedVarmennettu tili

Welcome new followers! #SurvivedandPunished is a prison abolition organization. We believe that prisons, detention centers, all forms of law enforcement, and punitive prosecution are rooted in systems of violence, including racial, anti-trans/queer, sexual & domestic violence. 1/

Our work focuses on criminalized survivors and the integrated relationship between systems of punishment + the pervasiveness of gender violence. We aim to #FreeAllSurvivors via mass defense projects, which would require the abolition of prisons and other systems of punishment. 2/

Our collective est. 2016 when freedom campaigns for 2 BIPOC criminalized survivors, @freemarissanow and @standwithnanhui joined hands, along w/ the Chicago Alliance to #FreeMarissaAlexander (now @LoveProtectOrg) and @c_c_w_p to come up w/ a national strategy to #FreeThemAll. 3/

Here @abierria of @freemarissanow + @hyejinhere of @standwithnanhui, who would later become S&P co-founders, discuss their respective campaigns in convo w/ Mimi Kim & Emi Kane of @incitenews, a feminist abolitionist org who we're deeply indebted to: https://www.thefeministwire.com/2015/06/free-marissa-and-stand-with-nan-hui/ … 4/

Check out this brochure from Communities Against Rape and Abuse "Making Connections: The Anti-Violence Movement Actively Resisting The Prison Industrial Complex" -- feminist abolitionists paved the way for #SurvivedandPunished https://incite-national.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/9261_anti-prisonbrochure.pdf … 5/

DV + criminalization are severe risks to survivors' lives, esp Black women. For many survivors, the criminal ­legal system punishes survivors, separates children from their caregivers & worsens the impacts of DV. #Abolition is a prerequisite to end gender-based violence. 6/