What's the breaking point?

[alonso ramoran]

I'd like to take a speed rail from the East to West Coast with family and friends and maybe write a poem along the way...

Spoken like a true revolutionary.

I gave it more thought and freedom on a personal level to me means being given the space where I'm allowed to grow again and begin healing. I'm pretty sure I have really severe social anxiety issues that I just don't know how to address, along with other issues. The way we handle mental health issues not only through our institutions but just in our everyday interactions with others (family, friends, associates, strangers) is toxic. Our relationships and institutions reflect each other at different scales. The shit about taking cross continental speed rails is idealistic for our time---I think this is as concrete as I can get for myself when speaking about freedom, but I'm pretty sure there's other things not coming to mind. When I move to another town next month, I'm gonna be paying my own rent and all the other stuff you need to live. I'm pretty sure it'll mean something new to me by then. The other stuff I said I'll stand on though. Freedom is being fed and living with dignity and feeling secure. Trusting in each other again. Restorative justice. Freedom is that and more, and it won't be politely handed over by the perpetrators.

Most of my questions have been given fair trial.

I can give more consideration to answers, Becker, Velasco, anybody.

This is a dumb question that I'll lead with, but it's always a consideration.
How do we know that our compatriots won't rape our sisters, saying they even survives the fiasco?

This question works on the notion of America's greatest asset, the illusion of Comfort and Security.

It's not my end all end all argument. It's not an argument at all. Simply a specific window to look through in case anyone wants to handle it.

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People might assume sexism. I plotted that into my response. Rape our sisters?

That's my approach. I'm old-fashioned.
I don't want anyone to rape my sisters.

I don't have any brothers.
So what do I care if someone rapes my brother?
That's cultural appropriation.

If that occurs, that needs to be solved within the community within the framework of restorative justice. This is defined on Wikipedia as "an approach to justice where one of the responses to a crime is to organize a meeting between the victim and the offender, sometimes with representatives of the wider community." But yeah there should be zero tolerance for any sort of sexual violence or misconduct in these spaces. Which is why I think to prevent that from occurring, these spaces should be led and curated by women.