Books Abolition Feminisms Vol. 1 Organizing, Survival, and Transformative Practice Edited by Alisa Bierria, Jakeya Caruthers, and Brooke Lober Foreword by Dean Spade

"Abolition Feminisms Vol. 1: Organizing, Survival, and Transformative Practice," edited by Alisa Bierria, Jakeya Caruthers, and Brooke Lober, is a groundbreaking anthology that explores abolition feminisms as a political tradition rooted in radical anti-violence organizing and Black feminist and feminist of color rebellion. The volume emphasizes survivor knowledge production and strategies developed both inside and outside prison walls, rejecting race-gender pathology and punitive control.

This collection disrupts the politics of carceral feminism by addressing the everyday terror and deprivation people face inside women’s prisons, the role of gender violence in the carceral state, and the intersections of imperial and domestic repression. It highlights the carceral production of gender and sexual normativity and settler colonial and anti-Black violence.