Abolition. Feminism. Now.

Angela Y. Davis, Gina Dent, Erica R. Meiners, Beth E. Richie

• Publisher: Haymarket Books
• Year: 2022
• ISBN:
  9781642593785
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Feminism & Feminist Theory

Abolition. Feminism. Now. is a celebration of freedom work, a movement genealogy, a call to action, and a challenge to those who think of abolition and feminism as separate—even incompatible—political projects. In this remarkable collaborative work, leading scholar-activists Angela Y. Davis, Gina Dent, Erica R. Meiners, and Beth E. Richie surface the often unrecognized genealogies of queer, anti-capitalist, internationalist, grassroots, and women-of-color-led feminist movements, struggles, and organizations that have helped to define abolition and feminism in the twenty-first century.This pathbreaking book also features illustrations documenting the work of grassroots organizers embodying abolitionist feminist practice.Amplifying the analysis and the theories of change generated out of vibrant community based organizing, Abolition. Feminism. Now. highlights necessary historical linkages, key internationalist learnings, and everyday practices to imagine a future where we can all thrive.

INDEX

#8toAbolition, 17

13th (DuVernay), 59, 61

1994 Crime Bill, 105

2020 uprising, 11, 23, 62, 79, 114–15, 135, 160

#CopsoutofCPS campaign, 158

#ErasetheDatabase campaign, 152

#FreeHer, 120

#MeToo, 95–96, 169, 172

#nocopacademy campaign, 156–58

#SayHerName campaign, 134

Aaron Patterson Defense Committee, 142

ableism, 3, 44, 71, 137. See also disability

abolition, 10–12, 39. See also Beyond the Bars; Black & Pink; Critical Resistance; Elizabeth Fry Societies; No New Jails NYC; Sisters Inside; Students Against Mass Inarceration; Survived & Punished

aesthetics of, 8–9

agency and, 55

Attica uprising and, 34

of bail, 33

capitalism and, 58, 61

in Chicago, 127–28, 140–44, 149, 152, 158, 161, 163

decarceration and, 35, 38, 50

definition of, 50

disability movement and, 67–68

domestic violence and, 81–82

family policing system and, 119–20

feminist lineages of, xi–xii, 11, 26, 34, 36, 83, 159, 161

gender violence and, 82, 85, 101, 102, 111, 143

history of, xiv, 49, 54–56

INCITE!-CR Statement and, x

indivisibility from feminism of, 12, 26, 82, 127, 131, 154, 168

internationalism and, 22, 25, 49

justice and, 46–47, 50, 82

Knopp and, 36

labor movement and, 147–49

lawyering, xi

“Moment of Truth” and, 81

practice of, 1–2, 63, 65, 82, 86, 128

prefiguration and, 15, 34

proliferation of, xi, 1, 11, 19, 66, 128, 135, 161

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