Abolition Feminisms: Organizing, Survival, and Transformative Practice

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Alisa Bierria is a Black feminist philosopher and an assistant professor in the Department of Gender Studies at UCLA. Her writing can be found in numerous scholarly journals and public anthologies including her co-edited volume Community Accountability: Emerging Movements to Transform Violence a special issue of Social Justice. She has been an advocate within the feminist anti-violence movement for over 25 years including co-founding Survived & Punished a national abolitionist organization that advocates for the decriminalization of survivors of domestic and sexual violence.Jakeya Caruthers is Assistant Professor of English & Africana Studies at Drexel University. Her research attends to black political aesthetics within 20th and 21st century cultural production as well as race gender sexuality and state discipline. Jakeya is a principal investigator of an inside-outside research initiative with Survived & Punished California that maps pathways between surviving gender violence incarceration and radical possibilities for survivor release. She is also collaborating on a digital archive of feminist decriminalization campaigns waged over the last 50 years.Brooke Lober is a teacher writer activist and social movement scholar who is currently researching legacies of antiracist and anti-Zionist feminisms in the Bay Area and teaching courses in the Gender and Women's Studies Department at UC Berkeley. Brooke is the co-editor of a special issue of Sinister Wisdom Out of Control: Lesbian Committee to Support Women Political Prisoners (2022); her writing is published in the scholarly journals Feminist Formations Womens Studies the Journal of Lesbian Studies Meridians: Feminism Race Transnationalism and on numerous websites of radical culture.