Erica Meiners

Beth Richie

Gina Dent

Angela Y. Davis

In this landmark work, four of the world's leading scholar-activists set out a vital, urgent manifesto for a truly intersectional, internationalist, abolitionist feminism. As a politics and as a practice, abolitionism has increasingly shaped our political moment, amplified through the worldwide protests following the 2020 murder of George Floyd by a uniformed police officer. It is at the heart of the Black Lives Matter movement, in its demands for police defunding and demilitarisation, and a halt to prison construction. And it is there in the outrage which greeted the brutal treatment of women by police at the 2021 Clapham Common vigil for Sarah Everard. As this book shows, abolitionism and feminism stand shoulder-to-shoulder in fighting a common cause: the end of the carceral state, with its key role in perpetuating violence, both public and private, in prisons, in police forces, and in people's homes. Abolitionist theories and practices are at their most compelling when they are feminist; and a feminism that is also abolitionist is the most inclusive and persuasive version of feminism for these times. Abolition. Feminism. Now!

Abolition. Feminism. Now.

Erica R. Meiners

Beth E. Richie

As a politic and a practice, abolition increasingly shapes our political moment — halting the construction of new jails and propelling movements to divest from policing. Yet erased from this landscape are not only the central histories of feminist — usually queer, anti-capitalist, grassroots, and women of color - organizing that continue to cultivate abolition but a recognition of the stark reality: abolition is our best response to endemic forms of state and interpersonal gender and sexual violence. Amplifying the analysis and the theories of change generated from vibrant community based organizing, Abolition. Feminism. Now. surfaces necessary historical genealogies, key internationalist learnings, and everyday practices to grow our collective and flourishing present and futures.

Abolition, Feminism, Now

Mara Viveros

El Black feminism, como desarrollo teórico y posición política, fue una de las primeras corrientes feministas que . invitó a entender y percibir el racismo como una cuestión feminista y que analizó la injusticia social como resultado del trabajo conjunto de distintas formas de opresión. En las conferencias reunidas en este volumen, Angela Davis y Gina Dent nos invitan a pensar en la importancia de organizar luchas colectivas alrededor de objetivos políticos, y no exclusivamente en torno a un atributo identitario.Nueve años después del encuentro que dio lugar a esta publicación, queremos compartir el testimonio de una experiencia que erosionó las fronteras entre lo académico y lo militante, y renovó el sentido de nuestras perspectivas intelectuales, políticas y éticas. Esta es también una oportunidad para emprender un análisis alrededor del movimiento de mujeres afrocolombianas, negras, raizales y palenqueras en Colombia. Una lucha social en la que estas mujeres han pagado un costo muy alto a causa del conflicto armado, pero que al mismo tiempo cuenta con una participación creciente en las distintas movilizaciones sociales y políticas, articuladas alrededor de demandas precisas que transforman su estatus de género dentro del movimiento afrocolombiano, en toda su diversidad.

Gina Dent

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