My partner and I both work in criminal justice reform but we come from completely different backgrounds - they're formerly incarcerated and I've been an advocate from the outside - and we're starting to realize how differently we see the root causes and what actual change looks like. We keep talking past each other when we discuss strategy and I don't know how to bridge our perspectives without dismissing their lived experience.
More people experience this than they realize.
Two people committed to the same cause are discovering their different experiences create fundamentally different analyses of the problem.
“Where Are You with Mass incarceration — causes and critique?”
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