Presidential Session: Prison Abolition, Mass Incarceration and Black Feminism: What's the Connection?: 20th Anniversary of Critical Resistance

Session Submission Type: Roundtable

Abstract

Black feminists have been in the forefront the fight against mass incarceration and the prison industrial complex for decades, many operating within an abolitionist framework. How does their feminist politics inform abolition and how has this been evident in the work of groups like Critical Resistance, founded in 1997 and INCITE: Women of Color Against Violence, founded three years later. Moreover, what are the ruptures and continuities in today’s Movement for Black Lives’ call for “a world without police.”?

Sub Unit

• General Conference

Presenters

• Angela Davis, University of California, Santa Cruz

• Beth Richie, University of Illinois, Chicago

• Mariame Kaba, Project NIA

• Asha Rosa Ransby-Sporn, BYP100