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...Erica R. Meiners Abstract Using recent work by anti-prison theorists and community-based activists who are working against the prison industrial complex, this article links prison abolition to feminist frameworks to question escalating sex offender registries and community notification laws...

... about Pleasant, who provided major funding and leadership in John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry in 1859—and indeed the stone that marks her grave reads simply: “M. E. P. She was a friend of John Brown”—because her role in the raid and in U.S. abolition is absent from nearly all historical documentation...

... and racialized surveillance and punishment. This perspective works toward dismantling penal structures while simultaneously seeking the abolition of racialized gender policing and an end to violence against gender non-conforming prisoners. Copyright © 2009 by Smith College 2009 JULIA SUDBURY...

... are inherently and primarily pedagogical, the accompanying lesson plan attempts to explore the multiple ways Indigenous and race-radical women of color feminists learn, teach, and organize about carceral logics and prison abolition inside and outside the classroom in a manner that teaches against the grain...

... advocating for rethinking the criminal justice system through prison abolition and restorative justice, it posits that seeking state recognition for hate crimes cannot provide justice given that the state is responsible for constructing Muslims as a national security threat. It explores how anti-Muslim...

... (2022) by Robyn Maynard and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, and Becoming Kin (2022) by Patty Krawec. It examines such themes as white feminist complicity with colonial white supremacist violence, the collective survival wisdom of Indigenous and Black women, abolition, and the revolutionary potential...

... speak/act on their behalf, and of the development of corresponding Indigenous and race-radical feminist praxis. As I argue throughout my research and teaching, it is long past time that feminist anti-sexual violence activism, anti-prison abolitionism, and anti-police brutality movements integrate...

... to affirm our anti-imperialist/anti-racist feminism coalitionally and relationally through the solidarity framework of joint struggle—integrating, for instance, a feminist politics of prison abolition, anti-militarism and decolonization, immigrant justice, and beyond. Indeed, liberal strands of feminist...

... links the prison abolition discourse to escalating sex offender registries, which are the state's response to sexual violence against women and children. Meiners provides a brief and queer history of sex offender registries; investigates how race, class, and gender complicate who has access...

... law and advocacy responses to violence against Indian women through a transnational lens. ERICAR. MEINERS is involved with a number oflocal and national initiatives, specifically anti-militarization campaigns, prison abolition and reform movements, and queer and immigrant rights organizing. The author...

.... The inner struggles of these characters, however, must be downplayed. Complicated women are never beautiful and strong men are never dimensional. Do not tell the story of a mother promoting her child's LEILANI RANIA GANSER Howro WRITE ABOlIT HAWAI'I 159 education. Do not tell the story of a young keiki...

... in prison violence against women gendered racism abolition A central achievement of the 1995 United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing was the emphatic articulation of women’s rights as human rights. In specifically identifying violence against women in both public and private...

... incarceration and criminalization, are fitting tributes to her memory, rather than flagrant violations of it. Instead of naming prisons after Tubman, a more fitting tribute would be to take up the call for prison abolition (Davis 2003 ). These wider rhetorical contexts, where Tubman is celebrated yet...

... the experiences and thoughts of those perpetuating the institution, although it includes as much material about abolition and resistance as possible. For example, under the heading of"Slavery and Resistance," the website cautions, "It is important to note that the majority of records of the slave trade...

... did not actively seek to assimilate feminist agendas into their national goals, it claimed to work toward the abolition of the gender and racial discrimination of the colonial period (Vickers 2005 : 123–33). Subsequently, women’s activism flourished during this time (Vickers 2005 : 123–33). Though...

... couldn't have evolved in another comparable social movement? MK: It might verywell have evolved in another movement. You also have to remember, according to Carlton Mabey's book, it was in the abolition of slavery movement that women's organizations in the United States first endorsed as a matter of policy...

... enslaved sister Rachel dies in Maryland, leaving behind two children whom Tubman fails to rescue. John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry ends in failure and he is hanged, becoming a martyr for abolition. Her family is no longer safe at her home in Auburn, and they return to Canada. WilliamHenrySewardL...

.... 1989 ; Tula 1994 ; Sierra Becerra 2017). As history demonstrates, the fight to defend families can be very radical, but it requires intentional work. Currently, the national immigrant rights movement is calling for the abolition of ICE and for building solidarity across movements. It is pointing...

... team spoke with activists working on a range of issues from abolition feminism, to anti-borders work, to mutual aid. All identifying aspects of participants, their networks, and their campaigns have been removed. We will now turn to examine the empirical findings of our project in relation...

... strategies for reproducing race that often sought more social integration across racial groups, while they simultaneously expressed an unrepressed pride in their African-descended heritage and its racial aesthetics. 90 MERIDIANS 14:2 Maria Firmina dos Reis and Redemptive Abolitionism in Brazil Since the 1962...