“Take a Moment to Ask Yourself, If This Is How We Fall Apart?” Practices for Mutually Reinforced Resilience in the Time of Reckoning More Lessons from The Manual for Liberating Survival

Abstract

ABSTRACT Centering the carework of dismantling technologies of oppression which aim to silence, exploit, and execute us – oftentimes to a point where repair is impossible – Syedullah and Leiner present lessons and activities from their co-created popular education curriculum, “The Manual for Liberating Survival,” a movement leadership training for revolutionary organizing designed to connect abolitionist activists and academics. This article draws lessons from the Manual that focus on healing justice and abolitionist protocols for decarcerating care within movements for social justice. The paper traces not only the transgenerational effects of anti-Black violence, community separation, and racial trauma but also the protocols of repair and resistance Black gender-non-conforming, queer, and trans women are seeding within movement space.