Abolition Is…
is a multimedia platform dedicated to amplifying the tools we need to build the world we deserve: one in which the violences of prisons, policing, and surveillance are obsolete. We believe a new world guided by care, collective action, and imagination is possible—this platform exists to help guide us as we engage in this world-building process together.
By compiling abolitionist literature, artwork, and projects from across time and place, we are creating a fugitive, expansive educational space that empowers young people to not only engage existing abolitionist thought but to formulate their own abolitionist dreams. In this way, Abolition is… acts as a living archive in which we document the ongoing development of abolitionist language, histories, theories of knowledge, and ways of being in community together.
Abolition is… intentionally centers young people, as the architects of our own abolitionist futures, and honors the long tradition of revolutionaries who have come before us. The lives and legacies of our Black and Indigenous ancestors are what make this platform possible.
We understand abolition to be a daily practice, and we invite you to join us in the everyday work of building our new world. We welcome you to use this space to (un)learn, (re)imagine, study, and practice so that we can achieve a possible and liberatory future in which abolition is…