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Imagining Abolition: Dr. Kwame Holmes discusses Akwaeke Emezi's novel 'Pet'

[video:https://youtu.be/U9mrq6oxdXM]

 

WGST Abolition Read

Monday, November 16th, 6 PM MST

What would a society without prisons look like??

Dr. Kwame Holmes led us in a discussion of Akwaeke Emezi’s young adult novel , which seeks alternate visions for justice in a utopian world without prisons. 

Kwame Holmes is Director of the Kingston Housing Lab, a Scholar-In-Residence in the Human Rights Project at Bard College, and Cohort Mentor for the Bard Baccalaureate program. He is a critical geographer, historian and cultural critic with a particular interest in the emotional politics of urban development and inequality.

For more information on the book Pet, please visit the author’s website at 

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WGST Abolition Read

More Resources:

In addition to the video replay above, we welcome colleagues teaching about abolition to use this talk and the resources below in their classrooms:
 
What is Abolition and why is it a feminist, queer and trans issue?
  •  A very short overview by the organization Critical Resistance, co-founded by Black feminist scholar activists Ruth Wilson Gilmore and Angela Davis, among other activists.
  • Mariame Kaba, . NYT, June 12 2020. 
  • Victoria Law, . Jacobin Magazine, 2014.
  • . Sylvia Rivera Law Project.
Activism on the CU ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ campus
  • . 12 June 2020.
  • "We Condemn Racist Police Violence". Statement by the Departments of Women and Gender Studies and Ethnic Studies at CU ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ, following the police killing of Mr. George Floyd.
  • . Video on CU BIPOC students' activism.