num_pages: 150
description: An urgent vital manifesto of intersectional internationalist abolitionist feminism from leading scholar-activists Angela Y. Davis Gina Dent Erica Meiners and Beth E. Richie.As a politic and a practice abolition increasingly shapes our political momenthalting the construction of new jails and propelling movements to divest from policing. Yet erased from this landscape are the central histories of feminist organizingusually queer anti-capitalist grassroots and women of colorthat continue to cultivate abolition. Also erased is 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.
language: English
title: Abolition. Feminism. Now.
publisher: Haymarket Books