Tabitha Lean

Tabitha Leanis an activist, poet and storyteller. An abolition activist determined to disrupt the colonial project and abolish the prison industrial complex, shes filled with rage, channelling every bit of that anger towards challenging the colonial carceral state. Having spent almost two years in Adelaide Womens Prison, 18 months on Home Detention and three years on parole, Tabitha uses her lived prison experience to argue that the criminal punishment system is a brutal and too often deadly colonial frontier for her people. She believes that until we abolish the system and redefine community, health, safety and justice; her people will not be safe.