Teaching Inside as Abolitionist, Feminist Labor and Praxis

Session Submission Type: Roundtable

Abstract

As educators who believe in a world without prisons and teach at a maximum-security prison that incarcerates people who the state considers men, we see our work as an intentional intervention in the apparatus of the carceral state and distinctly frame our teaching as justice work. Abolition is a practice and a politic that works toward the obsolescence of prison. By connecting our work teaching inside to movement building that aims to cultivate strong communities, eliminate harm, and create forms of authentic public safety, we seek to create more expansive understandings of abolitionist, feminist labor and praxis.

Sub Unit

• General Conference / SUBTHEME THREE: The future of the universities, schools, and knowledge production: maroon spaces, insurgent practices, and the future of the disciplines and the interdisciplines?

Moderator

• Deana G. Lewis, National Women's Studies Association

Presenters

• Alice Kim, University of Chicago, Pozen Family Center for Human Rights

• Beth Richie, University of Illinois at Chicago

• erica ruth meiners, Northeastern Illinois University