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17 Hastings Race & Poverty L.J. 1 (2020)

handle is hein.journals/hasrapo17 and id is 1 raw text is: Editor in Chief: Foreword My abolitionist journey embodies the following twelve principles: (1) have courageous conversations; (2) commit to response versus reaction; (3) experiment: nothing is fixed; (4) say yes to one's imagination; (5)forgive actively versus passively; (6) allow oneself to feel; (7) commit to not harming or abusing others; (8) practice accountability for harm caused; (9) embrace non-reformist reforms; (10) build community; (11) value interpersonal relationships; (12) fight the U.S. state and do not make it stronger. I ask that you sit with these vignettes, reflect on your own experiences, and begin to sketch your own abolitionist praxes and testimonies. - Professor Patrisee Cullors, Abolition and Resistance: Histories of Resitance, Transformative Justice, and Accountability, 132 Harvard Law Review (April 2019) The hardest question I have ever been asked in law school was: What if? There was nothing more past the if' and What if' wasn't a sentence starter. In our critical race studies class, Professor Veena Dubal stood above us as we huddled around one of the smallest classrooms at Hastings, and just said, What if? It was our last class of the semester, and I found it typical for my professors to give a some ancedote aimed at motivating, and/or calming my fellow students to do good with the law and enjoy law school. However, this wasn't the case. Professor Veena Dubal was genuinely asking us, What if? and she didn't have an answer. In our critical race studies class, Professor Veena Dubal pushed us to embrace imagination. During our last class, I was tasked to lead a classroom discussion on open borders, reparations, and prison abolition with two of the most intelligent individuals at Hastings, Michelle Trejo- Saldivar and Axl Campos Kaminski. Little did I know that last class would present one of the most challenging, existential questions of my law school career and probably my life. By simply asking What if? my classmates and I were pushed to embrace imagination. We were pushed to go beyond critically analyzing laws, systems, and society, but to take a complete step back from every bit of comfort and sense of familiarity we knew. We were pushed to assume possibility.

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