Panelists emphasized the need to decrease our dependency on carceral systems and solutions like the family policing system, which is also destroying the ability for Black people and Black birthgivers to live lives free of surveillance—which has been masked as a way to achieve "safety"—and violence, as it is rooted in white supremacy and racism.
Aarohi Sheth
Aarohi Sheth is an abolitionist, essayist, storyteller, editor, and poet from Houston. They currently serve as Scalawag’s fact checker and Hurricane Season editor. Aarohi writes about grief in all its forms, bayou communities, humidity, radical (re)imagination, the family as a horror, and more.
