Abolition is not absence, it is presence. What the world will become already exists in fragments and pieces, experiments and possibilities. So those who feel in their gut deep anxiety that abolition means knock it all down, scorch the earth and start something new, let that go. Abolition is building the future from the present, in all of the ways we can.
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- Ruth Wilson Gilmore
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Abolitionist Futures have generated an extensive ‘Introduction to Abolition 2022 Reading List’. We are sharing with gratitude and draw particular attention towards the section on feminist, queer, antiracist approaches to abolition.
Below, we are sharing some additional resources, mostly from 2022 onwards.
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Books:
Abolition Geography: Essays Towards Liberation by Ruth Wilson Gilmore
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Abolition. Feminism. Now. by Angela Y. Davis, Gina Dent, Erica R. Meiners, and Beth E. Richie
Practicing New Worlds: Abolition and Emergent Strategies by Beth E. Ritchie
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Become Ungovernable: An Abolition Feminist Ethic for Democratic Living by H.L.T. Quan
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Abolition Revolution by Aviah Sarah Day and Shanice Octavia McBean
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Family Abolition Capitalism and the Communizing of Care by M. E. O'Brien
Abolish the Family: A Manifesto for Care and Liberation by Sophie Lewis
Spirituality and Abolition by Ashon Crawley and Roberto Sirvent (Eds), with the Abolition Collective
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Online Articles:
The socialist case for abolition by Carrie Evans
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What is Abolition Feminism and Why Do We Need It Now? by Kitana Ananda
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How Abolition Feminism Fuels the Movement For Black Liberation by Mariame Kaba and Andrea J. Ritchie
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Abolition Feminism is the only solution for the criminalisation of gender-violence survivors by Marcela Onyango and Tinuke Fagborun
Why Policing and Prisons Can’t End Gender Violence by Angela Y. Davis, Gina Dent, Erica R. Meiners, and Beth E. Richie
Abolition Must Include Psychiatry by Stella Akua Mensah. Edited by Stefanie Lyn Kaufman-Mthimkhulu
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Envisioning a New World Through Abolition Geography: an interview with Ruth Wilson Gilmore by Sonali Kolhatkar
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Podcasts:
Abolition Is Now with Leah Cowan & Lola Olufemi
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“Where life is precious, life is precious.” with Ruth Wilson Gilmore
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Abolitionist Therapy: Possibilities for Transformation with Dr. Travis Heath and Gabes Torres
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On Abolition Feminism with H.L.T. Quan
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Abolition Geography with Ruth Wilson Gilmore & Dalia Gebrial
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An Abolitionist Theory of Care with Chelsea A. Jackson
Insurgent Social Reproduction and Communizing Care with M.E. O’Brien
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Abolishing the Family for Universal Care with Sophie Lewis
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Abolish Psychiatry with Vesper Moore
Abolition is Disability Justice with Tina Minkowitz
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Videos:
Abolition. Feminism. Now. with Angela Y. Davis, Gina Dent, Erica R. Meiners, and Beth E. Richie moderated by Mariame Kaba.