Abolition Is… Feature Page
As young people learning, struggling, and dreaming together towards a future in which abolition is, we believe it is crucial to record, archive, and amplify the ongoing development of our abolitionist languages, histories, theories of knowledge, and ways of understanding our world.
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March 2021
This month we are proud to feature
Abolitionist Assemblage:
Compiling Fragmented Freedoms and Imagining the World Anew
a personal essay by Morgan Smith
Experience Morgan’s meditations on Black kinship and care, read her bio, and discover her recommended resources below.
January 2021
For the launch of our platform, we are honored to feature three young visionaries who are helping define what Abolition Is...
Experience their contributions, read their bios, and discover their recommended resources below.
Abolition Is…
mirrored fatality
Mango & Samar
mirrored fatality is a nonbinary Kapampangan-Pilipinx and Pakistani-Muslim performance art duo Mango and Samar, sharing their rituals, altars, and medicine through DIT (Do It Together) experimental and healing noise punk.
Their EP COCOON WEBS was selected for our January 2021 inaugural Feature.
Abolition Is…
radical imagiNation
a poem by Kai Naima Williams
Kai Naima Willams is a storyteller, poet and performer based in New York City. Her current work intersects her interest in pop culture/media with her own spiritual-magical practice and her scholarship in Black studies.
Her poem radical imagiNation was selected for our January 2021 inaugural Feature.