{"id":1173,"date":"2021-09-03T18:21:40","date_gmt":"2021-09-03T22:21:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/revolution1313\/?page_id=1173"},"modified":"2022-07-02T09:34:38","modified_gmt":"2022-07-02T13:34:38","slug":"12-13","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/revolution1313\/12-13\/","title":{"rendered":"12\/13 | Abolition Feminism with Sarah Haley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bZTKx25nzkI\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h1><\/h1>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/revolution1313\/sarah-haley\/\">Sarah Haley<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/revolution1313\/bernard-e-harcourt-host\/\">Bernard E. Harcourt<\/a><\/h1>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">read and discuss\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.haymarketbooks.org\/books\/1546-abolition-feminism-now\">Abolition. Feminism. Now.<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>by Angela Davis, Gina Dent, Erica R. Meiners, and Beth E. Richie; and\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bookculture.com\/book\/9781469652221\">No Mercy Here<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>by Sarah Haley<\/h2>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Wednesday, June 1, 2022<\/h1>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/peoplesforum.org\/\">The People\u2019s Forum<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At our seminar on abolition feminism with Sarah Haley,\u00a0we explore the long history of feminist abolitionist activism and theory that extends back not only two decades to the turn of the twenty-first century with the collaborative political organizing of INCITE! and Critical Resistance, but much further back, centuries back, to the feminist abolitionist struggle against slavery and the uniquely violent forms which it took against Black women, as well as the forms of resistance going back to the Combahee River battle for instance.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Our discussion is guided by the reading of both the new collective book, <em>Abolition. Feminism. Now. <\/em>by Angela Y. Davis, Gina Dent, Erica R Meiners, and Beth E. Richie, and the extraordinary historical research of Sarah Haley on the racial and gendered construction of our punitive society in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, especially connected to convict leasing, chain gangs, and the Milledgeville State Prison Farm in Georgia, in her book, <em>No Mercy Here: Gender, Punishment, and the Making of Jim Crow Modernity.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There are three interlocking dimensions that come together to give abolition feminism so much momentum today, both in terms of activism and movement work and in terms of critical theory\u2014in other words, in both theory and praxis.\u00a0Two of those dimensions are clearly articulated in the work of Davis, Dent, Meiners, and Richie (henceforth, the Collective), and reflected in the very title of their book and of the movement; but there is a third important dimension\u2014a <em>longue dur\u00e9e <\/em>historical dimension\u2014from Haley\u2019s book <em>No Mercy Here <\/em>that provides an essential and rich context and a history of ideological formation that grounds abolition feminism today.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One could say that the first dimension, abolition, highlights resistance to state violence against Black men and women and communities more broadly; that the second dimension, feminism, spotlights resistance to interpersonal (most often male) violence against women in everyday life; and that the third dimension, the history of ideology, underscores the unique forms of state violence against women of color. At the same time, although the three dimensions highlight different aspects of the complex\u2014or as Haley says, drawing on Dylan Rodriguez, \u201cregime\u201d\u2014of race-and-gender domination, they combine to form an extremely coherent praxis of non-violent, transformative, visionary movement work. What\u2019s particularly impressive is to see how those dimensions enrich each other\u2014rather than competing with each other. How they work together to create a remarkable whole that is greater than its parts.<\/p>\n<p>Welcome to Revolution 12\/13!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Abolition. Feminism. Now.<\/em><\/h2>\n<div style=\"width: 577px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dissentmagazine.org\/article\/black-women-incarceration-convict-leasing-prison-forced-labor\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dissentmagazine.org\/wp-content\/files_mf\/1466543182Winant666.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"567\" height=\"260\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Women prisoners wait in line at the Parchman Post Office, circa 1930 (Mississippi Department of Archives and History)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Sarah Haley and Bernard E. Harcourt read and discuss\u00a0Abolition. Feminism. Now.\u00a0by Angela Davis, Gina Dent, Erica R. Meiners, and Beth E. Richie; and\u00a0No Mercy Here\u00a0by Sarah Haley Wednesday, June 1, 2022 The People\u2019s Forum &nbsp; At our seminar on&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/revolution1313\/12-13\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1603,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1173","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/revolution1313\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/revolution1313\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/revolution1313\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/revolution1313\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1603"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/revolution1313\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/revolution1313\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/revolution1313\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}