Black Feminism & Abolition
if you want to actually engage with intersectional feminism & what abolition really means, this is your homework:
Angela Davis - âAre Prisons Obsolete?â
Ruth Wilson Gilmore -Â âGolden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing Californiaâ
Angela Davis -Â âAbolition Democracyâ
Angela Davis -Â âFreedom is a Constant Struggleâ
âIf They Come in the Morning⌠Voices of Resistanceâ
Carole Boyce Davies - âLeft of Karl Marx: The Political Life of Black Communist Claudia Jonesâ
Safiya Bukhari - âThe War Beforeâ
Patrice Douglass - âBlack Feminist Theory for the Dead and Dyingâ
Patrice Douglass & Frank B Wilderson -Â âThe Violence of Presence: Metaphysics in a Blackened Worldâ
âWho Do You Serve, Who Do You Protect?â
Evelyn Hammond -Â âBlack (W)holes and the Geometry of Black Female Sexualityâ
Sadiya Hartman - âSeduction and the Ruses of Powerâ
Sadiya Hartman -Â âLose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Routeâ
Audre Lorde -Â âSister Outsiderâ
Audre Lorde -Â âThe Masterâs Tools Will Never Dismantle the Masterâs Houseâ
bell hooks - âThe Oppositional Gaze: Black Female Spectatorsâ
Michelle S Jacobs -Â âBlack Womenâs Invisible Struggle Against Police Violenceâ
Claudia Rankine - Citizen
Assata Shakur -Â âWomen in Prison: How We Areâ
Assata Shakur -Â âAssata: An Autobiographyâ
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor - âHow We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collectiveâ
Zoe Samudzi & William C Anderson - âAs Black As Resistance: Finding the Conditions for Liberationâ
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 iâve 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!