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Passionately argued, Love and Abolition is a compelling exploration of the power of Black queer performances to forge affective landscapes that rebel against carceral psychology, while inspiring new ways of being in and for the world. Performance, in this project, is a domain in which the impossible and the unthinkable become tangible and doable. More than rehearsing tough and tender love, it makes it in the here and now of an urgently abolitionist present. --Joshua Chambers-Letson, author of After the Party: A Manifesto for Queer of Color Life

""One of the contributions Love and Abolition makes to scholarship and activism are the countless moments when Reed's more polemical argumentation and analysis provoke new opportunities for research and thought. ... Like all great manifestos, Reed's provocations open up new worlds for thought and action. At the same time, her analysis of affect and abolition offer urgent and necessary interventions to feminist studies, queer studies, and Black studies."" --Stephen Dillon, The Journal of African American History ""Passionately argued, Love and Abolition is a compelling exploration of the power of Black queer performances to forge affective landscapes that rebel against carceral psychology, while inspiring new ways of being in and for the world. Performance, in this project, is a domain in which the impossible and the unthinkable become tangible and doable. More than rehearsing tough and tender love, it makes it in the here and now of an urgently abolitionist present."" --Joshua Chambers-Letson, author of After the Party: A Manifesto for Queer of Color Life ""Taking its cues from 'queer networks of creative solidarity, ' Love and Abolition stages a valuable dialogue between performance studies and abolitionist scholarship. Reed puts forward an interpretive framework for engaging how radical practices of care shape and are shaped by Black radical traditions of both conflict and collaboration."" --Felice D. Blake, author of Black Love, Black Hate: Intimate Antagonisms in African American Literature ""With her deep investigation into the historical and present-day manifestations of abolition, together with her incisive analysis of Black queer performance's rootedness in social transformation and careful attention to embodiment, Alison Rose Reed makes clear the specific ways that Black queer art invests in love as an abolitionist practice. She has done a great service for all of us who believe in the freedom strokes necessary--and available--in the here and now."" --Omi Osun Joni L. Jones, author of Theatrical Jazz: Performance, Àṣẹ, and the Power of the Present Moment

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Alison Rose Reed is Associate Professor of English at Old Dominion University.

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