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What does abolishing the police actually look like?
COMMUNITY, Ebony Purks Kailah Figueroa COMMUNITY, Ebony Purks Kailah Figueroa

What does abolishing the police actually look like?

For many skeptics, police abolition seems like an unsafe solution to begin the work towards dismantling white supremacy. So, let’s examine the problem with police as we know it in a broader sense: first, the entire justice system in the United States criminalizes homelessness, sex work, and drug addiction; therefore, rendering people without stable housing, sex workers, and those suffering from addiction unprotected by the law and from those who enforce the law.

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An Ode to My (Second) Youth: The Three K-pop Albums Defining My Twenties
COMMUNITY, Lea Bolante Kailah Figueroa COMMUNITY, Lea Bolante Kailah Figueroa

An Ode to My (Second) Youth: The Three K-pop Albums Defining My Twenties

Even though I’ve long since embraced the truth that there’s life beyond fangirling and K-pop, I honestly think that K-pop has brought a lot of good things in my life. More than the music and the concepts that are built around them, it’s the community that can make K-pop a soothing and potentially life-changing force in an individual’s life.

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