Tips for protest
A mixtape of resources for beginners and experienced organizers about how to keep safe and effective in protests!
A mixtape of resources for beginners and experienced organizers about how to keep safe and effective in protests!
Ahjamu Khalifah Baruti, incarcerated in the Saginaw Correctional Facility, insists on the value of the lives of people on the inside.
Shots from protests in the Bay Area, accompanied by the voices and stories of some of those at the heart of the fight.
Illustration: Peter Cizmadia BY CHARLIE WEINBERG Over recent weeks in the UK there have been calls for people in detention to be released, largely framed as a “public health” response and a way of keeping communities safe. Containment and control Few people are yet …
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, …
Read moreCOVID-19, Biopolitics and Abolitionist Care Beyond Security and Containment
PHOTO CREDIT: Shannon Knox BY RAHSAAN MAHADEO I am not a medical doctor, but I am pretty sure you cannot treat a disease with a symptom of that disease. I used to say this metaphorically to call attention to the limitations of policy change, …
Read moreYou Can’t Treat a Disease with a Symptom of that Disease
This excerpt from my recent zine represents existence, resistance, and abolition during the pandemic, centering specifically on my experiences and internal world as a Black woman. There has been illness, fear, poverty, state neglect and violence, and death—but there has been community-making and resistance, …
Read moreBlack Abolitionist Feminism in the Face of 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.”