We need a longer-term strategy to dismantle what is in the way of Black people being able to live.
Resistance that continues to operate within the mode of our existing systems through a constant streaming narration of Black pain and death fails to rise about the level of trauma-inducing rhetoric and exhausting activity.
But the only way out of this nightmare is together, and that means organizing for collective power with creative maladjusted strategies.
Contact tracing is being put forward as a way to understand who is being impacted by COVID.
But what if we think of contact tracing as a way to examine more broadly who has been impacted by systemic traumas, by poverty, by over-policing, by racism, with the aim of not only identifying trauma but also developing the strategies to eliminate them.
