Over Social Justice For Good

I’m done with social justice, y’all — for realz!

Seriously, what does that even mean: social justice? I looked the shite up and found something like “justice in terms of the distribution of wealth, opportunities, and privileges within a society.” Really? They need a special term for that? Calling it social justice makes it sound like some luxurious afterthought.

After all the important stuff gets taken care of. After all the real justice gets dished out (justice at the hands of perpetrators of some of the most unjust shite in the history of the world, mind you) you can then take the time to think about the social part of justice. Social justice is a specialty item you can take or leave based on your political leanings. It’s justice that’s debatable.

I’m calling bullshit. Think of the crimes committed, especially in the United States, by western cultures against the rest of the world. Shoot, giving back what was stole from Africa, Asia, the Southern Hemisphere in general is just plain justice if you ask me, which y’all never do. When you look at images of that history, it’s one hell of a snuff film. From all the lynchings in the American South, to stories of the trail of tears, to the annihilation of those two Japanese cities full of innocent civilians.

The west has never, and probably will never, be held accountable for the campaign of violence it’s waged against the rest of the world. The idea of a “fair” distribution of the loot that got stole from people who now get to live as second-class citizens on their own planet—that includes women, who have been having their labor stole for millennia—is frigging ridiculous!

So, no, I don’t wanna here shite about no social justice. Give me my shit back, please. That’s all the justice I need.

Pink Flowers

Pink Flowers is a Black trans artist, peacemaker, educator, and pleasure activist whose work lives at the intersection of embodiment, governance, and cultural transformation. Trained in Theater of the Oppressed, Art of Hosting, and Navajo-informed Peacemaking practices, Pink designs spaces where conflict can be addressed, power can be examined, and joy can be reclaimed.

Her artistic and pedagogical practice draws from African trickster cosmology, Brazilian Joker traditions, shamanic ritual, and cooperative economics. She is the founder of the award-winning Falconworks Theater Company (2005–2021), which used popular theater to build civic capacity and participatory leadership in historically marginalized communities.

Pink served for over five years as a trained Peacemaker in the Red Hook Community Justice Center in Brooklyn, facilitating restorative processes within the New York City court system. From 2015–2018, she worked in cooperative business development with the Center for Family Life, supporting worker-owned enterprises in immigrant communities.

She currently serves as Director of Education and Training for the Inter-Cooperative Council in Ann Arbor, where she leads leadership development and conflict engagement initiatives. Her work has been presented nationally and internationally, including at the Stretch Festival in Berlin and the Pedagogy and Theatre of the Oppressed Conference.

Across ritual, performance, mediation, and institutional design, Pink’s work asks a central question:

What becomes possible when we refuse shame and choose conscious power instead?

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