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Ashon Crawley won the 2021 nonfiction Lammy Award forThe Lonely Letters Book features interventions and artwork from incarcerated writers and artists Speaks to those interested in connecting spiritual practices and revolutionary politics Emphasizes the importance of spirituality and faith in cultivating hope during the COVID-19 pandemic, ecological crisis, and the violence of capitalism Abolition Collective is comprised of leading scholars and activists in the world abolition. The project is unparalleled in both its contributing members and its audience, from academics to incarcerated prisoners, as well as from students to veteran activists. Builds on the work ofAbolishing Carceral Society andMaking Abolitionist Worldsto offer a primer on what visionary activistsmean when they connect the interlocking systems of repression, exploitation, and racism. A powerful call to join abolitionist movements in this country to address the roots of injustice. The question of abolition has gained significant traction in recent debates about police, prisons, as well as border detention and deportation-from #BlackLivesMatter to #AbolishICE.

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Praise for Abolition Collective""Abolishing Carceral Society is an immense contribution to contemporary struggles for freedom.""—Dean Spade, author of Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics and the Limits of Law ""Abolishing Carceral Society is a wonderful mix of provocative ideas married with art, to help us consider a world without prisons, policing, and surveillance...This inaugural issue from Abolition Collective pushes us to ask a number of questions that are important to moving us toward an abolitionist horizon.""—Mariame Kaba, author of We Do This 'Til We Free Us ""Abolishing Carceral Society, presents incisive interventions in the current debates about prison abolition and abolitionism as a political principle. It is a bold beginning for what will become an essential forum for all insurgent thinkers.""—Silvia Federici, author of Revolution at Point Zero: Housework, Reproduction, and the Feminist Struggle and Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body, and Primitive Accumulation ""The Abolition Collective embodies the kind of work anybody interested in justice should aspire to reproduce. Astute, rigorous, and uncompromising.""—Steven Salaita, author of Inter/Nationalism: Decolonizing Native America and Palestine ""The Abolition Journal project offers a unique, revolutionary lens through which to view, analyze and fight against capitalism and patriarchy on the terrain of the prison-industrial complex.""—James Kilgore, author of Understanding Mass Incarceration: A People's Guide to the Key Civil Rights Struggle of Our Time “This brilliant and absorbing collection of rigorous research articles, thoughtful political interventions, and innovative artworks is immensely important to the work of committed scholars, activists and organizers. There is much that teaches, fortifies, motivates and mobilizes here.”—Laleh Khalili, author of Sinews of War and Trade: Shipping and Capitalism in the Arabian Peninsula and Time in the Shadows: Confinement in Counterinsurgencies ""Finally, here is a journal providing a platform capacious enough to embrace the insurgent knowledge of activists, the analytical rigor of scholars, and the visionary power of artists.""—Jackie Wang, author of Carceral Capitalism ""Inspiring and incisive, these political interventions advance collective and transformative revolutionary praxis—what we need, now more than ever. On fire, indeed!""—J. Kēhaulani Kauanui, author of Hawaiian Blood and Paradoxes of Hawaiian Sovereignty and editor of Speaking of Indigenous Politics Praise for Ashon Crawley *Winner of the 2021 Lammy Award in Nonfiction* *Winner of the Believer Book Award for Nonfiction* ""Ashon T. Crawley pushes his readers to contemplate the intimacy of living the life of the mind as a spiritual, enfleshed, and intellectual matter.""—Imani Perry, author of Looking for Lorraine Praise for Roberto Sirvent “Danny Haiphong and Roberto Sirvent are two of the most courageous and truthful intellectuals in the belly of the U.S. imperial beast!""—Cornel West

Praise for Abolition Collective Abolishing Carceral Society is an immense contribution to contemporary struggles for freedom. -Dean Spade, author of Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics and the Limits of Law Abolishing Carceral Society is a wonderful mix of provocative ideas married with art, to help us consider a world without prisons, policing, and surveillance...This inaugural issue from Abolition Collective pushes us to ask a number of questions that are important to moving us toward an abolitionist horizon. -Mariame Kaba, author of We Do This 'Til We Free Us Abolishing Carceral Society, presents incisive interventions in the current debates about prison abolition and abolitionism as a political principle. It is a bold beginning for what will become an essential forum for all insurgent thinkers. -Silvia Federici, author of Revolution at Point Zero: Housework, Reproduction, and the Feminist Struggle and Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body, and Primitive Accumulation The Abolition Collective embodies the kind of work anybody interested in justice should aspire to reproduce. Astute, rigorous, and uncompromising. -Steven Salaita, author of Inter/Nationalism: Decolonizing Native America and Palestine The Abolition Journal project offers a unique, revolutionary lens through which to view, analyze and fight against capitalism and patriarchy on the terrain of the prison-industrial complex. -James Kilgore, author of Understanding Mass Incarceration: A People's Guide to the Key Civil Rights Struggle of Our Time This brilliant and absorbing collection of rigorous research articles, thoughtful political interventions, and innovative artworks is immensely important to the work of committed scholars, activists and organizers. There is much that teaches, fortifies, motivates and mobilizes here. -Laleh Khalili, author of Sinews of War and Trade: Shipping and Capitalism in the Arabian Peninsula and Time in the Shadows: Confinement in Counterinsurgencies Finally, here is a journal providing a platform capacious enough to embrace the insurgent knowledge of activists, the analytical rigor of scholars, and the visionary power of artists. -Jackie Wang, author of Carceral Capitalism Inspiring and incisive, these political interventions advance collective and transformative revolutionary praxis-what we need, now more than ever. On fire, indeed! -J. Kehaulani Kauanui, author of Hawaiian Blood and Paradoxes of Hawaiian Sovereignty and editor of Speaking of Indigenous Politics Praise for Ashon Crawley *Winner of the 2021 Lammy Award in Nonfiction* *Winner of the Believer Book Award for Nonfiction* Ashon T. Crawley pushes his readers to contemplate the intimacy of living the life of the mind as a spiritual, enfleshed, and intellectual matter. -Imani Perry, author of Looking for Lorraine Praise for Roberto Sirvent Danny Haiphong and Roberto Sirvent are two of the most courageous and truthful intellectuals in the belly of the U.S. imperial beast! -Cornel West

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Abolition: A Journal of Insurgent Politics is a collectively-run project supporting radical scholarly and activist ideas, poetry, and art, publishing and disseminating work that encourages us to make the impossible possible, to seek transformation well beyond policy changes and toward revolutionary abolitionism.

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