social justice, non-journalism journalism and championing short films: highlighting underrepresented voices with writer/filmmaker Molly Lipson
we're joined by British writer, organiser, filmmaker and managing editor and founder of Short Stuff magazine Molly Lipson. Molly's writing has been featured on platforms such as Little White Lies, The New York Times, Service95, Dazed, Atmos, Rolling Stone, VICE and many more and engages in complex socio-political issues through a lens of liberation and abolition.
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a note from Molly:
I wanted to add a note about abolition - the word itself is a bit misleading – abolition is actually all about what we build, nourish and grow to create a world where, rather than waiting for something bad to happen and then punishing people after the fact, we seek to reduce, minimise and eliminate harm and violence by tackling the root causes. In most cases, these root causes come from big structural things like poverty, racism, colonialism, climate collapse, and cycles of harm created through a lack of intervention and the deepening of racial capitalism: childhood trauma, addiction and other mental health issue, queer phobia, etc.
Though abolition is against punishment, it is not against accountability. I would argue that abolitionists take accountability far more seriously than we possibly can in a capitalist world that prioritises punishment and vengeance. The transformative justice approach that we focus on emerged from survivors of childhood sexual abuse. Abolition is built on the shoulders of Black, brown, queer femmes across the world, especially in the Global Majority world.
For further reading I really encourage you to engage with:
• Abolition Revolution by Aviah Day and Shanice Octavia McBean
• Brick by Brick by Cradle Community
There are endless resources out there so I’ll just share this one from Abolitionist Futures [https://abolitionistfutures.com/resources].
My final note is that abolitionists can sometimes use jargon heavy, overly-academic language and I know how difficult that can be to engage with. If you can, stick with it and keep untangling the ideas as best you can, chat about it with your friends and family, make notes, draw your dream world. The ideas themselves really aren’t that complicated and the world we want is well within our reach.
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