In the last days of the ISO everyone was passing along an academic paper about anti-racist NGOs and activist organizations reproducing patriarchy and racism in their structures and practices. We all wondered, "Why didn't we read anything like this when we were being onboarded?"

I'm neither an anarchist nor a sociologist who's read a lot on these issues, and although I'd like to, I don't quite know where to begin, but I think we need to read more robust theory on how to build an organization without falling into a "the [existing iteration of the bureaucratic] organization must be protected at all costs" mentality, because the ISO and PSL both have had policies in place that should have given a better framework for how to respond to SA in the leadership.

Another problem, especially when institutional rot comes into play, is that these crises are so painful and open up so many other wounds that no one wants to study them and learn from them.