There is an abundance of harm, abuse, and righteous conflict surrounding us right now. But we in movement don’t identify with predators—our historical reality is that we are the prey, trying to defend ourselves, protect each other. There is such complexity with trying to name this dynamic within our movements. I persist in this line of inquiry because it’s also true that we are practicing, training ourselves through repeated motion, a strategy of moving in frenzy towards punitive actions, even as we try to put transformative language on our behavior.
