Author: fondashen
Natan Last | Sovereign Bodies of Water
By Natan Last Abolish ICE; revive the history that brought its demonic reign to power in the first place. Abolish borders, not boundary lines; interrogate not only the language that replaces them but the origins, linguistic and political, that installed… Continue Reading
Kaagni Harekal | Expansive Care: Abolishing the Family Regulation System
By Kaagni Harekal Over the past year, ‘social work’ and ‘community building’ have become catch-all phrases in conversations about prison and police abolition. The presumption in deploying these terms is that a) they are capacious and resilient enough to accommodate… Continue Reading
Shanelle Gordon | The Reality of Prison Abolition
By Shanelle Gordon In her piece, “Why Arguments Against Abolition Inevitably Fail,” Angela Davis described the historical tension between the concepts of reform and abolition, and how the dynamic between the two is presently changing: The insight that racism is… Continue Reading
Brandon Vines | The Gilded Cage of Citizenship
By Brandon Vines Charles Monnet, Assemblée Nationale Abandon de Tous les Privileges, Etching (1790). Available from the Library of Congress. As every first-year law student quickly learns, property rights are a bundle of sticks. An absolute landowner has a full… Continue Reading
Shanelle Gordon | Discussion of Repair: Redeeming the Promise of Abolition by Katherine Franke
By Shanelle Gordon “Speak to the Past and It Shall Teach Thee.” –Inscription on John Carter Brown Library, Providence, Rhode Island. I used to walk past the John Carter Brown Library almost every day in college on my way from… Continue Reading
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak | The Indefinite Future of Abolition
By Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak The collective project of the Columbia Center for Contemporary Critical Thought at Abolition Democracy 13/13 was on a) capital reparations, b) Black Lives Matter, and c) the global future. My interest is in the fact that… Continue Reading
Sania Anwar | Unearthing Justice: Book Review of Katherine Franke’s Repair: Redeeming the Promise of Abolition
By Sania Anwar Left: February 1968 front cover of a monthly student newspaper founded by the New York Urban League for students of Harlem Prep, Newark Prep, and the Street Academies. The inside page of this issue has an article… Continue Reading
S. Shabzadeh | Reflections on Borders and Imaginary Frontiers
By S. Shabzadeh “So, what do you think our chances of immigrating to Canada are?” he asked me as he attempted to bring his unruly son onto his lap. Looking at my cousin I could see the toll of years… Continue Reading
Kedar Shrinivas Vishwanathan | Reparations – Abolition Futures
By Kedar Shrinivas Vishwanathan Central to the continuing movement for a better and more racially just and equal society, abolitionists have called for reparations. During the Reconstruction period, reparations were offered in land grants and then subsequently expropriated by white… Continue Reading