In tech, auditing biased algorithms while preserving surveillance business models retains the house; community data trusts and public-interest technology shift ownership and purpose. In public safety, reforms that expand budgets and tools can entrench harm; abolitionist approaches emphasize shrinking the footprint of punishment while investing in housing, health, and care (see Ruth Wilson Gilmore’s Golden Gulag, 2007; Mariame Kaba’s We Do This ’Til We Free Us, 2021). In climate, ‘just transition’ frameworks retool economies around worker and frontline leadership. Across these arenas, Lorde’s compass asks: whose needs define success, and do our tools redistribute power enough to remake the foundation? [...]
