If we abolish carceral approaches to anti-discrimination polices like Title IX, and if anti-violence activists and workers apply this abolition framework to addressing campus sexual violence through trauma-informed, culturally competent practices and policies, then a new higher education is possible. There could be reductions in violence right alongside individual- and community-level healing and transformation. With our hope for such a transformed future, an uncomfortable reality remains: higher education, at its very core, was designed for wealthy, abled, White, and cisgender men.
