Mariame Kaba. We Do This ’Til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice. Chicago, IL: Haymarket Press, 2021. 240p. Paper, $16.95 (ISBN: 164259525X).
Abstract
“Prisons haven’t always existed. They came into being…”
“I don’t believe in self-care: I believe in collective care…”
“…hope is a discipline and…we have to practice it every single day.”
These three sentiments continuously repeat in my mind, over and over again, since reading Mariame Kaba’s We Do This ’Til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice. Filled to the brim with thoughtful, liberating, and radical essays and interviews on the prison industrial complex, prison abolition, and all that lies in between, Kaba manages to create an accessible tome for collective abolition activism while never becoming reductive.
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