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.
- Ruth Wilson Gilmore
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.
Books:
Abolition Geography: Essays Towards Liberation by Ruth Wilson Gilmore
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
Become Ungovernable: An Abolition Feminist Ethic for Democratic Living by H.L.T. Quan
Abolition Revolution by Aviah Sarah Day and Shanice Octavia McBean
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
Online Articles:
What is Abolition Feminism and Why Do We Need It Now? by Kitana Ananda
How Abolition Feminism Fuels the Movement For Black Liberation by Mariame Kaba and Andrea J. Ritchie
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
Envisioning a New World Through Abolition Geography: an interview with Ruth Wilson Gilmore by Sonali Kolhatkar
Podcasts:
“Where life is precious, life is precious.” with Ruth Wilson Gilmore
Abolitionist Therapy: Possibilities for Transformation with Dr. Travis Heath and Gabes Torres
On Abolition Feminism with H.L.T. Quan
Abolition Geography with Ruth Wilson Gilmore & Dalia Gebrial
An Abolitionist Theory of Care with Chelsea A. Jackson
Insurgent Social Reproduction and Communizing Care with M.E. O’Brien
Abolishing the Family for Universal Care with Sophie Lewis
Abolish Psychiatry with Vesper Moore
Abolition is Disability Justice with Tina Minkowitz
Videos:
Abolition. Feminism. Now. with Angela Y. Davis, Gina Dent, Erica R. Meiners, and Beth E. Richie moderated by Mariame Kaba.