UNLOCK 39.1 Epistemic Injustice

Years ago, I failed to understand my autistic son's needs. Instead of fully taking in his distress at school, I projected my own story, values, and experience on him. He'll manage. He'll get used to it. He'll toughen up.

What does this have to do with a British judge sentencing Palestine Action activists as terrorists? More than I expected.

In this coda to my interview with Lisa Matthews (stepmother of Finn Collins, facing trial in February as one of the Filton 25), I trace a fault line that runs from parenting failures, to failures to support young people during the encampments of Spring, 2024, through to the courtroom where Justice Johnson ruled that six young people could not tell a jury why they acted, then sentenced them as terrorists under a provision he'd concealed.

Edward Said, Frantz Fanon, Miranda Fricker, and Marsha Linehan all describe this injustice: through postcolonial, philosophical, and psychological lenses: how the authority or parent erases a subject's self-account and replaces it with lies.

SOURCES

Free the Filton 25 — campaign site

Support Finn — GoFundMe (Michael Collins)

Re: Rajiv Menon KC — contempt ruling, full text

Edward Said — Culture and Imperialism (1993)

Miranda Fricker — Epistemic Injustice: Power and the Ethics of Knowing (2007)

Frantz Fanon — The Wretched of the Earth (1961)

Aimé Césaire — Discourse on Colonialism (1950)

Stuart Hall et al. — Policing the Crisis (1978)

Eqbal Ahmad — Terrorism: Theirs and Ours (2001)

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak — Can the Subaltern Speak? (1988)

Marsha Linehan — Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment of Borderline Personality Disorder (1993)

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