Each of us, and I mean you and me, is capable of harming someone.

Not only that, each of us has.

The aftermath of harm can too often become a scramble to be righted or absolved.

In this episode we talk about the intricate and very human responses we have to harm.

We talk about shame as a rejection of connection and impact.

And we talk about the lies of patriarchy and racism and how they lead us to believe in our

own elevated importance and how they reinforce shame.

Ritchie Rissita is a music, film, and content producer who was freed from prison in 2018.

He co-created and co-hosts the Spotify Original Podcast Abolition X and while in prison he started

question culture which is the independent media collective that houses his

projects. He also co-founded success stories which was chronicled in the CNN documentary,

Feminist on Sel Block Y. I highly recommend it, and I hope that you enjoy this episode.

All right, I am so excited, Ritchie, that you are here with us today. Thank you for coming

on to the podcast. Thank you for being in conversation with me. I'm really grateful that you're here.

Thank you. Thank you so much for having me. I'm really grateful that you're here. Thank you. Thank you so much for having me.

Of course.

I will say before I ask you the first question,

I, you know, we've been in the same friend group for a long time

but I haven't known you. I remember I saw you once at a

fashion show I think in somebody's backyard you must have been a teenager and I was like who is that who is that I wonder who that is

but that I remember that yeah I remember that so well it was the stud Studs fashion show in Patrice's backyard in

2006. I was 14 years old. I was trying to halle at all the Studs. For

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