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Visions of Abolition: Black Women’s Fight to End Mass Incarceration

Nicole Fleetwood

Nicole Fleetwood will join us to discuss art and visual advocacy by black women to abolish prisons and to end punitive governance.

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Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration, Nicole Fleetwood, prison, prison abolition
Scholar and Feminist Online 15.3
Fall 2019

Unraveling Criminalizing Webs: Building Police Free Futures

Andrea J. Ritchie and Levi Craske '18

This issue of S&F Online invites us to contemplate the question: If not police, then what? How must our everyday conversations, celebrations, and community creations lead us on a path toward transformative approaches to safety and healing?

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anti-criminalization, anti-violence, criminalization, police, prison abolition

“The fake road, its cruel deception, is what we have to abandon”: Normalizing the In/Security State: Police and Prisons

Featuring Jordan Camp, Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Christina Heatherton, and Mariame Kaba, moderated by Tina Campt at the 43rd Annual Scholar & Feminist Conference, "Subverting Surveillance: Strategies to End State Violence."

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policing, prison, prison abolition, Scholar and Feminist Conference, state violence, surveillance

Bresha Meadows: Survived and Punished

Bresha Meadows is a young Black girl incarcerated for defending her life against domestic violence. She is one of tens of thousands of girls and young women locked up behind bars across the United States facing violence at the hands of the criminal punishment system. #FreeBresha, free them all!

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#FreeBresha, Bresha Meadows, criminalization, incarceration, prison abolition, Survived and Punished

Ky Peterson: Survived and Punished

Ky Peterson should be free, but right now he is in prison for defending his life against physical and sexual assault.

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#freeky, Ky Peterson, prison abolition

Paris Knox: Survived and Punished

Paris Knox is a 38-year-old Black mother sentenced to 40 years in prison for defending her life against an abusive ex-partner.

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criminalization, Paris Knox, prison abolition, Survived and Punished