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Abolitionist Bystander Intervention & De-escalation — Interrupting Criminalization | Research In Action

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By Eva Nagao, Jj Skolnik
| interruptingcriminalization.com
Every situation is different, and no one strategy will work in all of them. Right to Be and Green Dot have come up with a list of basic, well-tested strategies for intervening and de-escalating violent or potentially violent situations. Meet the Five Ds DISTRACT: Good for situations in which someone is being harassed, this means approaching the person being harassed but ignoring the harasser.
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Aïsha Devi: Death Is Home

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By Jj Skolnik
| Pitchfork Verified
On Death Is Home, Aïsha Devi arrives with the clearest and most distinct version of her sound yet. Defined by a sense of gothic scale and darkness, it’s rave music with a brain and a heart—for lone adventurers rather than big rooms. To understand it, one must take Devi’s entire discography into consideration: As Kate Wax, she made cloudy dance-pop—music that could have been dismissed as airy and transitory yet carried a strange and sometimes clunky heft.
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Alien Nosejob: The Derivative Sounds Of... or... A Dog Always Returns to Its Vomit

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By Jj Skolnik
| Pitchfork Verified
Jake Robertson has been in some bands: School Damage, Hierophants, Leather Towel, Modal Melodies, SWAB, to name a few. He is perhaps best known for his time in the insouciant Ausmuteants, a group from the early 2010s who garnered fans worldwide for their no-frills take on synth-punk. But the restless punk stalwart seems to have hit a particularly rich creative vein with his solo project, Alien Nosejob.
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