Abolition Feminisms, 
Volume 2

​Feminist Ruptures against the Carceral State
(Available November 2022!)

"As inspiring as it is edifying, this phenomenal collection – Abolition Feminisms, Volume 2: Feminist Ruptures Against the Carceral State – offers us a broad range of ideas, images, provocations, and organizing approaches enabled by developing theories and practices associated with abolition feminisms."
-Angela Y. Davis
"This essential two-volume collection maps the shared roots between abolitionist life-making and feminist resistance, showing us how rebellious organizing and radical care is always at the heart of real change."
—Mariame Kaba
Volume 2 Table of Contents​
(Titles in quotes are poetry or visual art.)
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  • Foreword
    Andrea J. Ritchie
  • Introduction: Making a Clearing
    Alisa Bierria, Jakeya Caruthers, & Brooke Lober

PART 1: DISMANTLING CARCERAL INTIMACIES

  • ACAB Means Abolishing the Cop in Our Heads, Hearts, and Homes: An Intergenerational Demand for Family Abolition
    Tamara Lea Spira, Dayjha McMillan, Madi Stapleton, and Verónica N. Vélez
  • "Purgatorio"
    ​    Shellyne Rodriguez
  • State-Sanctioned Suicides and Life-Making Resistance in Carceral Contexts
    Colby Lenz
  • Beyond #StopAsianHate: Criminalization, Gender, and Asian Abolition Feminism
    Edited and introduced by Hyejin Shim, participants also include Stephanie Cho, Yves Tong Nguyen, Ny Nourn, and Connie Wun
  • "Protect Celeste Guap"
    Inés Ixierda
  • “All Canned Foods Are Expired but Still Edible”: A Critique of Anti-Violence Advocacy and the Perpetuation of Antiblackness
    Romina Garcia
  • "Aunt Hester’s Scream"
    kai lumumba barrow
  • Stay Connected at All Costs
    Alisha Walker in conversation with Red Schulte
  • "when he dies"
    Jasmine Tabor

PART 2: REFUSING REFORM, RESISTING CAPTIVITY
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  • "The Precarity of Crossing, SOIL Project"
    Shana M. griffin
  • Domestic Terror: Women’s Prisons and Assata Shakur’s Abolitionist Refusal
    Jess Issacharoff
  • "From a knife"
    Yola
  • Bad Apples, Rotted Roots, and the Three Rs of Reformist Reforms
    Ren-yo Hwang
  • Refusing the Value of Immigrant Fear: An Abolitionist Feminist Critique of Sanctuary by Police
    Lee Ann S. Wang
  • "Controlled Burns" Molly Costello
  • Social Work and the Partner Assault Response Program: A Critical Pathology Report
    Rosalie Donaldson-Kronenbuerger and Mark Mullkoff
  • Prison is Not Feminist, Service is Not Liberation: Punishment, Service, and a Web of Detainment
    Kayla Marie Martensen

PART 3: MAKING A CLEARING
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  • "No Cops on Stolen Land"
    Summer-Harmony Twenish
  • A Letter for Darnella Frazier: A Black Feminist Abolition Map of the Forgotten
    Whitney Richards-Calathes
  • Radical Mothering for the Purposes of Abolition
    Nadine Naber, Johnaé Strong, and Souzan Naser
  • "All Incarceration Is Family Separation"
    Mon M
  • Teaching Abolitionist Praxis in the Everyday
    Qui Alexander
  • Tools for Building Dream Worlds That Serve Us: A Review of Fumbling Towards Repair by Mariame Kaba and Shira Hassan
    Xhercis Méndez
  • "seachange"
    Tabitha Arnold