A Conversation with the Editors: Abolition Feminism and the Politics of Reproduction
Join guest editors Sarah Haley and Emily Thuma, S&F Online Senior Editor Sandra Moyano-Ariza, and S&F Online Executive Editor Rebecca Jordan-Young to mark the release of the Fall 2025 issue of The Scholar and Feminist Online, “Abolition Feminism and the Politics of Reproduction.” This conversation will focus on the issue’s development and key questions and themes, as well as its special release in print to expand accessibility.
The new issue of S&F Online brings together timely contributions within the emergent intersection of abolition feminism and social reproduction at a moment when carcerality continues to proliferate under new guises. This framework makes visible the carceral state’s imbrication in the maintenance of everyday life while insisting on the long genealogy of feminist struggles that have always understood abolition as a reproductive question. These contributions examine how gendered, racialized, and classed forms of life are both sustained and constrained by carceral systems, and how abolitionist praxis reimagines and rebuilds the reproduction of the social otherwise.
Registration is required. The event is only open to BC and CU ID holders. Refreshments will be provided.
About the Speakers
Emily Thuma is Associate Professor in the School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences at the University of Washington, Tacoma, where she teaches in the programs in politics, law, and gender and sexuality studies. She is the author of All Our Trials: Prisons, Policing, and the Feminist Fight to End Violence, published by the University of Illinois Press in 2019 and republished by Haymarket Books in 2024.
Sarah Haley is the author of No Mercy Here: Gender, Punishment, and the Making of Jim Crow Modernity, published in 2016.