My project (work in progress) is three Equality Archive posts centered around Abolitionist Feminist.  1. My theoretical concerns rest within a few intersecting frameworks, including but not limited to: abolition feminism, transformative/restroative justice, disruption of systems/cycles of violence. I have leaned deeply into the words of Angela Davis, especially in her research of police and prison abolition. Her book Are Prisons Obsolete? (2003) has been a foundational resource in my own research. Additionally, texts such as Trying to Transform by Sara Ahmed (2017), We Do this ‘Til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice (2021) by Mariame Kaba. These …

This isn’t a super polished post… It’s Thursday. I’m doing homework and making my way through the readings for this week in Methods. I explored Angela LaScala-Gruenwald and Brian Mercado’s work with ease and excitement but I’m getting stuck on the pieces by Jaqui Alexander & Chandra Mohanty and Evren Savci. I’m finding the language challenging. I’m struggling to retain the information and stay focused reading more than a few lines and finding myself getting frustrated because I have no idea what I just read. The little voice in my head keeps saying: “You’re not smart enough to read this,” …

One of my favorite books is Normal People by a writer called Sally Rooney. I always feel the need to preface my recommendation with the fact that it does lack queer representation and the primary abusive characters is cast as one of the only people of color in the TV adaptation (I will add, though, that this is one of the best book-to-tv/film adaptations I have seen in a long time, and I’m a strong believer that the book is always better). On its surface Normal People is just a pair of young, straight white people fucking (can I say …

Here is a small excerpt from Sara Ahmed’s “Bringing Feminist Theory Home.” I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about my relationship to feminism and academia. I always return to this particular section to stimulate some thought around this. I have too much whirling around my head at the moment to say much more about this in a cohesive way so I am leaving it here for others to ponder with and fall down the existential rabbit hole of navigating personal politics.