A kind of familiar yet chaotic beauty of a two-hour meeting that stretches into three. “At times this slow work of building our collective capacity to imagine and act in ways that do not expand the prison-industrial complex has felt and continues to feel interminable. short term relief associated with state arrest and punishment is not always what survivors of violence want it does not involve them in decision making as to what they need and seldom restores what they have lost.” In both instances, harm results from the use of arbitrary authority, the abuse of power with impunity, the absolute control of bodies, minds, and spirits of survivors…” “Monica Cosby, a Chicago-based abolition feminist, forcefully argues that prison is quite literally a form of gender violence. Below are some of the lines/passages that stuck with me: The most valuable part of the book lay in the authors’ explanation of carceral feminism, its downsides and the alternative: abolition feminism, as well as the annexes at the end that lay out for reformist steps don’t lead to any type of meaningful change.
I found the Feminism and Now chapters most engaging, because I bought the book to learn about the intersection of feminism and abolition, and also wanted to understand what one is expected to do in the face of overwhelming state violence.
The book is neatly divided into three chapters: Abolition, Feminism, and Now.
by Angela Davis, Gina Dent, Erica Meiners, and Beth Richie is an amazing little summary of key analysis and theories of change around abolition feminism, and a stark reminder of how the best response to gender and sexual violence is abolition.
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