Tabitha Lean

National Development Officer, Sisters Inside

Tabitha Lean is a prisoner activist, abolitionist, victim-survivor of family and sexual violence, fighting to abolish the prison industrial complex, and destroy racial capitalism. Imprisoned by the carceral and psychiatric state, she knows the power of sharing her story because voices like hers have largely been silenced by dominant narratives. Her work seeks to disrupt colonial knowledge systems, challenge racialised myths of ‘offending,’ and amplify the voices of those harmed by state violence. She intends her work to challenge people to reconsider who gets to tell stories, whose knowledge is valued, and how abolition must be shaped by those who have survived the cage.