Abolition Feminisms Vol. 2: Feminist Ruptures Against the Carceral State

A collection of radical reconsiderations and creative critiques that aims to expose, disrupt, and uproot carcerality.

Author: Alisa Bierria
Publisher: Haymarket Books
Published: 11/08/2022
Pages: 328
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.80d
ISBN13: 9781642598452
ISBN10: 1642598453
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Feminism & Feminist Theory
- Political Science | Political Ideologies | Radicalism
- Social Science | Penology

About the Author
Alisa Bierria is a Black feminist philosopher and an assistant professor in the Department of Gender Studies at UCLA. Her writing can be found in numerous scholarly journals and public anthologies, including her co-edited volume, Community Accountability: Emerging Movements to Transform Violence, a special issue of Social Justice. She has been an advocate within the feminist anti-violence movement for over 25 years, including co-founding Survived & Punished, a national abolitionist organization that advocates for the decriminalization of survivors of domestic and sexual violence.

Jakeya Caruthers is Assistant Professor of English & Africana Studies at Drexel University. Her research attends to black political aesthetics within 20th and 21st century cultural production as well as race, gender, sexuality, and state discipline. Jakeya is a principal investigator of an inside-outside research initiative with Survived & Punished California that maps pathways between surviving gender violence, incarceration, and radical possibilities for survivor release. She is also collaborating on a digital archive of feminist decriminalization campaigns waged over the last 50 years.

Brooke Lober is a teacher, writer, activist, and social movement
scholar who is currently researching legacies of antiracist and
anti-Zionist feminisms in the Bay Area, and teaching courses in the
Gender and Women's Studies Department at UC Berkeley. Brooke is the
co-editor of a special issue of Sinister Wisdom, "Out of Control:
Lesbian Committee to Support Women Political Prisoners" (2022); her
writing is published in the scholarly journals Feminist Formations, Women's Studies, the Journal of Lesbian Studies, Meridians: Feminism, Race, Transnationalism, and on numerous websites of radical culture.