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Interfere: Journal for Critical Thought and Radical Politics
Every Day We Must Get Up and Relearn the World: An Interview with Robyn Maynard and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
2021 •
Robyn Maynard
Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas
The Downward Redistribution of Breath: Abolitionist Visions of Healing Justice from Chicago
2024 •
Ronak K Kapadia
A new generation of visionary artists, activists, and healers from queer and trans Black, Indigenous, and People of Colour communities offer a crucial wellspring for insurgent ideas about breathing, healing, and justice that contrast the dominant militarized policing order in the United States. At a time when the proliferating calamities of global fascism, climate chaos, and endless warfare appear ascendant across the planet, how do minoritarian cultural workers living and labouring in the heart of empire make sense of this dying world order while breathing life into new worlds through their creative practices? The ecology of minoritarian aesthetics emerging from recent overlapping protest movements in Chicago are working to turn the tide against prisons, policing, and American warfare. They offer a powerful roadmap for indexing the dystopian here and now of US imperial decline and imagining rebellious futures that can move us from despair and isolation to coalition and transformation.
Social Justice, Vol 49-3
“No One Is Disposable”: Insurgent Safety and the Black Radical Imaginary
2022 •
Meghan McDowell
The Queer Queers": Returning to the Radical Roots of Queer Liberation through Prison Abolition
2021 •
Nicole Francisco
Pandemic and the Crisis of Capitalism: Conjuncture of Insurrection, a RETHINKING MARXISM Dossier
Case Study: COVID-19, Care, and Incarceration in Massachusetts
2020 •
Justin Helepololei
A Blade of Grass magazine issue 5
"Confronting Enemies": Whose Monuments and Editorial introduction
2020 •
Daniel Tucker
I guest edited this issue of ABOG magazine on the theme of "Confronting Enemies" and contributed both a editorial introduction as well as an essay entitled Whose Monuments focused on the work of Monument Lab and Chicago Torture Justice Memorials, among others.
Journal for the Anthropology of North America
The Ground on Which We Stand: Making Abolition
2020 •
Rebekah J . Gordon, Laura McTighe
Abolition is both a vision and a practice. As abolitionists, we envision a world without prisons. We must also make that world together. Abolition is thus more than an ideological commitment to the absence of prisons. Abolition is presence, as Ruth Wilson Gilmore reminds us. It is the presence of life-giving institutions. It is our presence with one another, as we enact and explore in this article. As co-authors, we have been journeying together at Florida State University for nearly a year. Our work has shapeshifted through the COVID pandemic and in the wake of the Tallahassee Police Department murders of Mychael Johnson and Tony McDade. We open this article on these grounds, honoring the people have fought before us and all who fight in their legacy. We also stretch back into the violent histories that fill our present, and reflect in succession on the intimate work of building the world otherwise. Our prison nation may govern through erasure and abandonment, but the prison is in fact everywhere. That means that abolition must be everywhere, too. This ethnography is our work to create it. Through it, we hope to support you in making your own abolitionist futures in real time.
A Blade of Grass
9 Theses on Pandemic and Reproductive Labor
2020 •
Carol Zou
Artistic essay on reproductive labor, disability, trauma, and abolition in the context of COVID-19.
Lawyering for Abolitionist Movements
2021 •
Jamelia Morgan
In this brief Essay, I offer frameworks for different ways of thinking about lawyering for abolitionist movements. In so doing, I offer a set of preliminary roles, functions, and questions that can be used to guide lawyers seeking to support movements for abolition. As I argue, in this movement for radical social change, there is a role for lawyers to play in supporting abolitionist movements in their calls to remake the world
Living an Abolitionist Life
Anna Storti
“Living an Abolitionist Life” is at once a testimony to the everyday praxis of abolition feminism and a theoretical framework for understanding the abolitionist impulse characteristic of an anti-carceral Asian American feminist praxis. Using Sara Ahmed’s feminist scholarship as a guide, the author observes various shifts from the individual to the collective, distilling the urgency of abolition feminism into a praxis of everyday choices. The first case study sits with the cultural politics of emotion, reviewing reactions to anti-Asian racism during the COVID-19 pandemic including discourse surrounding calls for hate crimes legislation and mass appeal through the hashtag #StopAsianHate. Next, the author considers collective care through Ahmed’s notion of “becoming a feminist ear,” foregrounding 18 Million Rising, an Asian American digital-first organization that authored Call on Me, Not the Cops, an intergenerational resistance to policing. The article ends with a discussion on orientation and orientalism, revisiting the case of Yang Song, a Chinese migrant massage worker who fell four stories to her death in Flushing, Queens during a police raid in 2017. Holding on to the liberatory potential of Asian American abolition feminism, the author writes less with the intention to evidence the indisputable worth of Asian American abolition feminism and more to offer a way of noticing everyday gestures of being in political struggle by centering those who live abolitionist lives.
