Tabitha Lean is a Gunditjmara woman, born and raised on Kaurna yerta. Tabitha is an abolition activist determined to disrupt and dismantle the colonial project, abolish the prison industrial complex, and annihilate racial capitalism – and she’s angry, channelling every bit of that rage towards the carceral state that caged her. As a criminalised woman, Tabitha knows the power of stories like hers being heard because voices like hers have largely been marginalised and erased by the lexicons of knowledge.
PFA awarded a small grant to Tabitha towards her Care As Resistance workshops, monthly community creative workshops exploring what it means to build care, not cages. Each session brings together criminalised, queer, First Nations, activist community members to make art, share food, and strengthen our capacity to respond to one another with compassion in moments of crisis or distress. Through creative practice, we imagine new worlds, and practices of community care beyond the systems that harm us. These workshops will run over 12 months, with each gathering contributing to a collective zine after each session that documents our shared learning, wisdom and visions for liberated futures, that can be distributed horizontally.
