Conflict is not abuse: overstating harm, community responsibility, and the duty of repair

Introduction: A reparative manifesto

Part one. The conflicted self and the abusive state. In love : conflict is not abuse ; Abandoning the personal : the state and the production of abuse ; The police and the politics of overstating harm ; HIV criminalization in Canada

Part two. The impulse to escalate. On escalation ; Manic flight reaction : trigger + shunning ; Queer families, compensatory motherhood, and the political culture of escalation

Part three. Supremacy/Trauma and the justification of injustice : the Israeli war on Gaza. Watching genocide unfold in real time ; The duty of repair.