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Calling for Art Submissions for a special issue of Abolition: A Journal of Insurgent Politics on Abolitionist Feminisms What are the impacts and challenges of carceral systems/logics on racialized, poor, and criminalized women, queer, trans, and gender non-conforming people? Carceral systems structure and secure …
By: Diana Block “Street art, George Floyd protest, Minneapolis, MN, June, 2020” by Renoir Gaither In mid-2020, my friend Nina Serrano, an author/poet/activist who hosts a radio show about books, Cover-to-Cover on KPFA, asked me to do an update of an interview I did with her in …
Read moreAbolitionist Fantasies: Revisiting the Fictional 2020 of My Novel
![[image description] Book cover with title "Making Abolitionist Worlds: Proposals for a World on Fire" edited by the Abolition Collective - with an outer space scene, one orange planet in the upper right corner and one red planet in the lower left corner.](https://i0.wp.com/abolitionjournal.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/making-abolitionist-worlds.jpeg?fit=750%2C1123&ssl=1)
We are excited to announce the publication of the second issue of our journal, published by Common Notions. Available for order here. MAKING ABOLITIONIST WORLDS: PROPOSALS FOR A WORLD ON FIRE edited by the Abolition Collective What does an abolitionist world look like? Insights …
Read moreAnnouncing the 2nd Issue of Abolition – Making Abolitionist Worlds
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by Kaitlyn J. Selman and Cori J. Farrow [featured image by Pete Railand] Visionary fiction writer Walidah Imarisha says, “We live in a quantum universe—the possibilities are endless. The way systems of power maintain themselves is to deny us that and to tell us …
IN MAY 2020, organizers in Toronto had planned to host the Abolition Convergence under the theme: Imagining Decolonizing and Abolitionist Futures. It was canceled when the pandemic hit; but the work of abolition continued and on-the-ground rebellion placed these themes into the public imagination. …
This article addresses the duplicity of the city of New York’s “efforts” to of defund the NYPD.
By Michelle Dillon In his 2018 article “How Prisons Serve Capitalism,” Dan Berger wrote, “More than profit, capitalism generates misery from its poorest subjects.”[i] Especially in the context of the response to the COVID-19 pandemic, it is clear that a fulcrum of carceral control is not simply …
Read moreKeeping Communities Connected: COVID-19 and the State of Prison Profiteering
By: Emily Marra, Hen Povereni, and Natasha McMillan On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a global pandemic.[1] This sparked a dialogue regarding one of society’s most ill-protected and often forgotten populations: incarcerated individuals. Abolitionists have long argued that systems of incarceration …