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Jan 9, 2026

The Elsewhere Is Black: Ecological Violence and Improvised Life

Join us for an exciting book salon in celebration of Barnard Assistant Professor of Women’s, Gender, Sexuality Studies Marisa Solomon’s The Elsewhere Is Black: Ecological Violence and Improvised Life with J.T. Roane (Geography, Rutgers) and Mon M. (Survived & Punished), moderated by C. Riley Snorton (English & Comparative Literature and ISSG, Columbia).

Abolition Feminism and the Politics of Reproduction

Guest editors Sarah Haley and Emily Thuma gather contributions that 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. Abolition feminism here operates as analytic and an ethic: a refusal of state violence with a commitment to building alternative infrastructures of care, safety, and survival.

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 […]

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The Elsewhere Is Black: Ecological Violence and Improvised Life

Abolition Feminism and the Politics of Reproduction

A Conversation with the Editors: Abolition Feminism and the Politics of Reproduction