Abolition Feminisms,
Volume 1

Organizing, Survival, & Transformative Practice

“This collection will be an instant classic in feminist and queer of color critique.”

​—Sarah Haley, author of No Mercy Here: Gender, Punishment, and the Making of Jim Crow Modernity
Volume 1 Table of Contents​
(Titles in quotes are poetry or visual art.)
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  • Foreword
    Dean Spade
  • Introduction: Abolition Feminisms in Transformative Times
    Alisa Bierria, Jakeya Caruthers, & Brooke Lober

PART 1: GENEALOGIES
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  • Genocide and “US” Domination ≠ Liberation, Only We Can Liberate Ourselves
    Clarissa Rojas and Nadine Naber
  • Caring Collectively: Twenty-Five Years of Abolition Feminism in California
    Edited by Emily L. Thuma and Joseph Hankins, introduced by the editors and Romarilyn Ralston, afterword by Victoria Law
  • The Presence and Reach of Abolition Feminisms: Emily Thuma’s All Our Trials
    Brooke Lober
  • "From Cages"
    Asantewaa Boykin

PART 2: THE VIEW FROM HERE

  • Coronavirus Chronicles
    April Harris, edited and introduced by Colby Lenz and Alisa Bierria
  • "No Cops, No Jails, No Linear Fucking Time"
    Esmat Elhalaby
  • A World Without Sweatshops: Abolition Not Reform
    Minh-Ha T. Pham
  • “The Soap, The Shower Curtain, And The Mopping Up"
    Tabitha Lean
  • "Beware the calls for unity"
    Tabitha Lean
  • QTGNC Stories from US Immigration Detention and Abolitionist Imaginaries, 1980–Present
    Tina Shull
  • “Disappearance Suit"
    Maria Gaspar
  • The Politics of Everyday Life: Palestinian Women Inside Israeli Colonial Prisons
    Samah Saleh
  • “Houses"
    Jana Traboulsi

PART 3: OTHERWORLDS
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  • 'Ima Make It Look Fly!': Abolitionist Feminist Aesthetic Coding in Fashion and Adornment
    Gloria A. Negrete-Lopez
  • Ghostly Care: Boarding Schools, Prisons, and Debt in Rhymes for Young Ghouls
    Christine Finley
  • “snaring"
    Whess Harman
  • Mapping the Networks: An Opening Roundtable on Transnational Transformative Justice
    Edited and introduced by Melanie Brazzell and Erica R. Meiners, participants also include molly ackhurst, Anne-lise Ah-fat, Lauren Caulfield, Shirley Leslie, Mimi Kim, Meenakshi Mannoe, Kelsey Mohamed, Vanessa Eileen Thompson
  • “Abolitionist Elder"
    Tori Hong
  • How Much Do My Black Life Matter?: A Conversation with CeCe McDonald and Ky Peterson
    Edited and introduced by Ash Stephens
  • “Tower Card, 2020"
    ​Lacey Johnson