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.)
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
"The Precarity of Crossing, SOIL Project" Shana M. griffin