



When people are predators? Yeah, we tell them to leave, because our communities and movements are meant to be safe spaces.



But accountability isn't about cancelling, it's about healing. https://twitter.com/gwensnyderPHL/status/1252231465007558656 People talk about "cancel culture," when actually what's going on is accountability culture.When people are predators? Yeah, we tell them to leave, because our communities and movements are meant to be safe spaces.But accountability isn't about cancelling, it's about healing.

Like, sometimes people in our communities are so hurt by something that's been done that we have to ask the perpetrator to leave, because those who have been hurt can't heal in their presence.



In digital spaces, that can take the form of cancellation.

(And by the way, the "cancel" in "cancel culture" was stolen from Black Twitter, where it started out as an expression of internal accountability)