COVID-19, Biopolitics and Abolitionist Care Beyond Security and Containment

Photo Credit: Decarcerate PA BY EVA BOODMAN In the first week of May 2020, Darlene “Lulu” Benson-Seay and Andrea Circle-Bear died from COVID-19—the first women known to have died from the virus in prison.[1] Given the unsanitary, crowded, and punishing state of those institutions, …

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Beyond Inside/Outside: Imagining Safety During Covid-19

“The ongoing feminicides throughout Latin America are but one example reminding us that to stay home isn’t necessarily to stay safe… It is my hope that sharing my own experience with abuse might offer insight into the interdependency between mutual aid, transformative justice, and abolitionist feminism.”