Abolitionist Digest - July ‘23

A selection of recent and forthcoming resources. Want to bring one to our attention? Drop us a line on social media or by e-mail.

+ PUBLICATIONS

• Abolition, internationalism and communities of resistance
  Race & Class, July 2023 - Ed. by John Narayan

• What Is Antiracism? And Why It Means Anticapitalism
  Arun Kundnani

• Building Your Abolitionist Toolbox: Everyday Resources for a Punishment-Free World
  Project NIA

+ EVENTS

• Rehearsing Futures Part 2: Experiments in Imagination
  London / Healing Justice
  13 July (18:30)

• What Is Antiracism? And Why It Means Anticapitalism
  SOAS London / Arun Kundnani ft. Ruth Wilson Gilmore
  13 Jul. (18:00)

• Know your rights training
  Online / Green & Black Cross
  13 Jul. / 25 Jul. (18:30-21:00)

• Mad Pride 2023
  Camberwell Green, London
  15 Jul. (15:00)

• Oscar Wilde’s Prison Door: LGBTQIA+, Laws, and imprisonment
  Queer Britain, London / Join Neil Bartlett, Liv Wynter, and the Bent Bars Project
  16 Jul. (14:00-15:30)

• Miss Major Speaks and Atmospheres of Violence
  London / Toshio Meronek & Eric A. Stanley in conversation
  21 Jul. (19:00-22:00)

• Summer School: Race, Class and 'Crises'
  London / Connected Sociologies
  3-4 August

+ ARTICLES

• Cops in Culture #8 - Law & Order: SVU
  Elio Sea

• Building Abolition from Scotland’s history of resistance to the prison
  John Moore on ‘Activating the Archives: Prisons, Abolition and Histories of Resistance’ —Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research. 

• The Abolitionist No 14 (1983)
  Intro by John Moore

• Reading the riots: From Mark Duggan to Nahel Merzouk
  Institute of Race Relations

+ RECORDINGS

• Sexual violence & abolition
  Surviving Society podcast —with Molly Ackhurst

• Change Everything —Keynote by Ruth Wilson Gilmore
  Abolitionismus-Kongress Hamburg

• Isabella Hammad : Enter Ghost
  Between the Covers Podcast

• The IPP Prisoner Scandal
  Trapped podcast

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