Tabitha Lean

LEAN Tabitha

Tabitha Lean is a First Nations poet, storyteller and abolition activist who argues that the criminal punishment system is a brutal and often deadly colonial frontier and uses her lived prison experience to fight for the total abolition of the prison industrial complex.

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GR OnlineOn the first day I arrived at the inquest, my friend Charandev Singh said to me that coronial inquests exist to alibi state actors for the deaths they’ve caused, the lives the state has previously taken, and to protect the state for all the future lives it will steal. Every single one of these agents of the state is complicit in these alibis, too.

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