Accountability is a human skill, not something that happens to bad people. How many times have movements been pulled apart not because of external forces but because of internal conflict and strife? So often we ask how others can be accountable without first looking internally and asking, “How have I been accountable?”
Join PLSN with special guest, Shannon Perez-Darby, to explore the role self-accountability plays in building strong, sustainable movements. We’ll discuss how self-accountability—that is accountability with and for ourselves—is essential in building accountable communities and the movements to sustain them.
This is the PLSN Discussion Group’s final event for 2025 – please come help us round out this year with inspiration, reflection, and connection.
About our guest:
Shannon Perez-Darby is a founding member of the Accountable Communities Consortium and co-editor of the anthology, How to End Family Policing: From Outrage to Action (Haymarket, 2025), Shannon Perez-Darby is a queer, mixed Latina, anti-violence advocate, author, activist, and consultant working to create the conditions to support loving, equitable relationships and communities. With over 20 years of experience Shannon Perez-Darby centers queer and trans communities of color while working to address issues of domestic and sexual violence, accountability, family policing and prison abolition.