Session 3: Feminist, Queer, Antiracist Abolition
2018-2021 Core Readings:
Critical Resistance and INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence (2008) Statement on Gender Violence and the Prison Industrial Complex. In: Critical Resistance (ed.) Abolition Now! Ten Years of Strategy and Struggle Against the Prison Industrial Complex. Oakland, California: AK Press, pp. 21-25. [5 pages].
Julia
Sudbury
(2006) ‘Rethinking Antiviolence Strategies: Lessons from the Black Women’s Movement in Britain’ in Color of Violence: The INCITE! Anthology p. 13-24. Available from [12 pages]
Beth
Richie
(2014) ‘How Anti-Violence Activism Taught Me to Become a Prison Abolitionist’ FeministWire.org. [2 pages]
Morgan
Bassichis,
Alexander Lee and Dean Spade. (2011) ‘Building an Abolitionist Trans and Queer Movement with Everything We’ve Got’. In: Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex, Oakland: AK Press, p.15-19 & 33-37. [10 pages]
Further reading:
If you’re joining an Abolitionist Futures reading group for the second time, we recommend you read these instead of the core readings.
Dean Spade & Reina Gossett (2014) No one is Disposable: Everyday Practices of Abolition [videos]
Oonagh Ryder and Mo Mansfield (2018) “Just Paint the Walls Pink”: Gender, Prison and Carceral Feminism. Lockdown podcast.
Mariame Kaba and Victoria Law (2019) Transformative Justice in an era of mass criminalization on the Activist Files podcast