The Ongoing Work of Abolition
As we are inundated daily with news of ongoing police murders of Black people, the impacts of systemic racism, the commodification of bodies, and a system of policing as an anti-Black white supremacist institution, imagining alternatives can be difficult. The…
Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals
For this week we are reading selections from Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals by Alexis Pauline Gumbs. In Undrowned, Alexis is presenting considerations of marine mammals in a new way focused on growth and exploration of what they…
Science fiction and imagining futures
This week we will be continuing conversations on abolition and the tools we have to imagine a different future using science fiction. We invite you to read this essay, written by Walidah Imarisha, titled “Rewriting the future using science fiction…