Black Feminism & Abolition
if you want to actually engage with intersectional feminism & what abolition really means, this is your homework:
Angela Davis - “Are Prisons Obsolete?”
Ruth Wilson Gilmore - “Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California”
Angela Davis - “Abolition Democracy”
Angela Davis - “Freedom is a Constant Struggle”
“If They Come in the Morning… Voices of Resistance”
Carole Boyce Davies - “Left of Karl Marx: The Political Life of Black Communist Claudia Jones”
Safiya Bukhari - “The War Before”
Patrice Douglass - “Black Feminist Theory for the Dead and Dying”
Patrice Douglass & Frank B Wilderson - “The Violence of Presence: Metaphysics in a Blackened World”
“Who Do You Serve, Who Do You Protect?”
Evelyn Hammond - “Black (W)holes and the Geometry of Black Female Sexuality”
Sadiya Hartman - “Seduction and the Ruses of Power”
Sadiya Hartman - “Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route”
Audre Lorde - “Sister Outsider”
Audre Lorde - “The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House”
bell hooks - “The Oppositional Gaze: Black Female Spectators”
Michelle S Jacobs - “Black Women’s Invisible Struggle Against Police Violence”
Claudia Rankine - Citizen
Assata Shakur - “Women in Prison: How We Are”
Assata Shakur - “Assata: An Autobiography”
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor - “How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective”
Zoe Samudzi & William C Anderson - “As Black As Resistance: Finding the Conditions for Liberation”
this is a curated list of texts that i find the most helpful for illustrating why we all should also be abolitionists. the bolded are the ones i’ve found the most helpful thus far. & reminder to buy the books when you can, preferably from independent / leftist / black-owned bookstores… and see what you can find at your local library! keep these works in circulation!
