https://abolition-is.com/contact daily 0.75 2021-04-14 https://abolition-is.com/about daily 0.75 2021-04-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5faf0b34253fde48502c55c1/1607381123021-6U8N7YJW6MV438B60N51/Abolition+Is+Texture2.png About - 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… https://abolition-is.com/podcast-coming-soon daily 0.75 2020-12-12 https://abolition-is.com/study-series daily 0.75 2021-04-22 https://abolition-is.com/kai-naima-williams-feature-page-2021 daily 0.75 2021-03-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5faf0b34253fde48502c55c1/1611209959062-A5LCNKUJCFYMCXFP9K7E/36484139_1038184556338375_1759365213150248960_n.jpg Kai Naima Williams Feature Page, 2021 image description: Kai Naima Williams wearing her long dark hair in cornrow braids that feed into two ponytails, white dangly earrings, a pink necklace, and a jumpsuit with orange, black, pink, white, and yellow vertical stripes. Kai is sitting on a stoop in front of a teal door smiling, looking, and reaching out of frame to her right. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5faf0b34253fde48502c55c1/1611209991664-L0GM8RIIV5M7RF36EVJP/41983220_336102600491916_3406388910159959901_n.jp Kai Naima Williams Feature Page, 2021 - Mirrored Fatality image description: portrait of Kai Naima Williams from the chest up and looking directly at the camera. Kai is wearing her dark hair in a low ponytail; blue, silver and pink glitter eyeshadow, gold heart-shapped hoop earrings, a pink box necklace attached to a silver chain, and a light blue dress. Background is a bare white wall. https://abolition-is.com/mirrored-fatality-feature-page-2021 daily 0.75 2021-02-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5faf0b34253fde48502c55c1/1611026696321-KWLYN702LBENAUTM9K73/postcrypt%2C+pc+ricky+silva+%281%29.JPG mirrored fatality Feature Page, 2021 [image description: photograph by ricky silva taken at a sculpture in tongva land/westwood, ca. The photograph includes mirrored fatality staring hauntingly at the screen from within a hole where they are wearing an iridescent cape, ornamental chains and sparkly jewelry, black and white clothing, and eyeliner tracings. Mirrored fatality’s hair is partly shaved with gelled spirals on their foreheads and sides.] https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5faf0b34253fde48502c55c1/1611026710976-W741S6U8MNK5GK4ID6V6/%233.jpg mirrored fatality Feature Page, 2021 - Mirrored Fatality [image description: mirrored fatality, photo by princess amugo of them in their cocoon webs garment on top of a salton sea rock. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5faf0b34253fde48502c55c1/1611026805497-YEDYKYBS7BDGLNW2T0Q3/mirrored+fatality+EP+Cover+Photo mirrored fatality Feature Page, 2021 [image description: mirrored fatality written in their signature cosmic creature font in black, maroon, red, and green is on top of collaged photos of mirrored fatality screaming in a gray glowing light, mirrored fatality in a bioluminescent cocoon, and side by side with their faces filled with flames. the background is mirrored fatality in warrixr stances with their bass and guitar next to a joshua tree at the mojave desert on with their protest stances in the sky with a glowing cocoon web on the sides. cocoon webs, the title of their EP is written in their signature webbed font in gray and black that is written on the top and bottom of the EP.] https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5faf0b34253fde48502c55c1/1611023944353-Z1O22WA2HFBZQJI158NK/%233+%281%29.jpg mirrored fatality Feature Page, 2021 image description: triple exposed photograph by em butler of mirrored fatality performing at radio axiom in chumash land/ san diego, ca. the photograph includes mirrored fatality’s shadow kneeling on the ground, yelling in pain and rage standing up, and silhouettes of them playing their instruments behind a dystopian building visual effect backdrop. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5faf0b34253fde48502c55c1/1611026683855-KFAC7PRT70O2GA1PAZVK/%231.JPG mirrored fatality Feature Page, 2021 image description: photography by ricky silva taken on tongva land in front of a chick-fil-a restaurant in westwood, ca. mirrored fatality adorns themselves in leather, chains, white silk, butterflies, and crow feathers, transforming the limitations of compulsory heterosexuality as they rage in defiance, self-fashioning themselves in flared nostrils, pursed lips, serious brows, and a clenched jaw. Surrounding them are white cis-male bodies, to their left is a shirtless tanned man walking his son in a stroller with his other child startled staring at them. the other men in the photo are shocked and confused and staring at the duo screaming. https://abolition-is.com/home daily 1.0 2021-02-22 https://abolition-is.com/resource-hubs daily 0.75 2021-02-21 https://abolition-is.com/study daily 0.75 2021-02-21 https://abolition-is.com/abolition-101 daily 0.75 2021-03-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5faf0b34253fde48502c55c1/1616090339923-7ZRR8IQ85EEXNPK4CIEQ/Image+3-18-21+at+1.58+PM.jpg Abolition 101 - “A Note on Patrisse Cullors and the Black Lives Matter Network” For the first post in our Study Series, we highlighted a 2019 article by Patrisse Cullors titled “Abolition and Reparations: Histories of Resistance, Transformative Justice, and Accountability”. As students of abolition, we want to bring attention to some serious statements that have come out regarding Cullors and BLM as an organization. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5faf0b34253fde48502c55c1/1615386938790-N9SW0K5EN89OBUPLXC1V/mk+picture.jpg Abolition 101 - Mariame Kaba, “Yes, We Mean Literally Abolish the Police” “As a society, we have been so indoctrinated with the idea that we solve problems by policing and caging people that many cannot imagine anything other than prisons and the police as solutions to violence and harm. People like me who want to abolish prisons and police, however, have a vision of a different society, built on cooperation instead of individualism, on mutual aid instead of self-preservation” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5faf0b34253fde48502c55c1/1614841410993-WTW5BD5JT2DAKQ2FSW58/Cullors.jpg Abolition 101 - Patrisse Cullors, “Abolition and Reparations: Histories of Resistance, Transformative Justice and Accountability” “Abolition means setting, communicating, and respecting boundaries. Abolition means reinforcing those boundaries when they are not heard. Abolition means transformative justice. Abolition allows one time to heal. Abolition seeks to repair the damage done to a person or a people. Abolition holds space for the person or people who have perpetrated violence, harm, and damage. Abolition makes the impossible possible.” https://abolition-is.com/feature-page daily 0.75 2022-09-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5faf0b34253fde48502c55c1/1611209959062-A5LCNKUJCFYMCXFP9K7E/36484139_1038184556338375_1759365213150248960_n.jpg Abolition Is Feature Page - 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. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5faf0b34253fde48502c55c1/1611026710976-W741S6U8MNK5GK4ID6V6/%233.jpg Abolition Is Feature Page - 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. https://abolition-is.com/patrisse-cullors-abolition-and-reparations daily 0.75 2021-03-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5faf0b34253fde48502c55c1/1612719478013-H9PQYBH43QA3PHCGSEMV/dsc05321.jpeg Patrisse Cullors, "Abolition and Reparations" Patrisse Cullors https://abolition-is.com/mariame-kaba-abolish-the-police daily 0.75 2021-03-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5faf0b34253fde48502c55c1/1615386075612-JOTN455LTNN7UP2RGECJ/kaba+picture.jpg Mariame Kaba, "Yes, We Mean Literally Abolish the Police" - Mariame Kaba Patrisse Cullors https://abolition-is.com/a-note-on-patrisse-cullors-and-blmgn daily 0.75 2021-03-18 https://abolition-is.com/mumia-abu-jamal-from-one-struggle-to-another daily 0.75 2021-03-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5faf0b34253fde48502c55c1/1616693612800-LHMA7OT90WN5PV4VBDWP/mumia+pic.jpeg Mumia Abu-Jamal, "From One Struggle to Another" - Mumia Abu-Jamal Patrisse Cullors https://abolition-is.com/abolition-and-the-black-radical-tradition daily 0.75 2021-03-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5faf0b34253fde48502c55c1/1616692523773-IXDMNSLU9AUSK3HBLJC6/mumia+3.jpeg Abolition + The Black Radical Tradition - Mumia Abu-Jamal, “From One Struggle to Another: Lessons From the First Abolition Movement” “The lessons of the noble anti-slavery Abolition Movement is before us. It is a lesson to struggle and struggle, from generation to generation, until the People are finally free, and that ‘old snake’ has no more masks behind which to hide.” https://abolition-is.com/abolitionist-assemblage daily 0.75 2021-04-19