Beyond border walls and prison cells—carceral society is everywhere. In a time of mass incarceration, immigrant detention and deportation, rising forms of racialized, gendered, and sexualized violence, and deep ecological and economic crises, abolitionists everywhere seek to understand and radically dismantle the interlocking institutions of oppression and transform the world in which we find ourselves. These oppressions have many different names and histories and so, to make the impossible possible, abolition articulates a range of languages and experiences between (and within) different systems of oppression in society today.

Abolishing Carceral Society presents the bold voices and inspiring visions of today’s revolutionary abolitionist movements struggling against capitalism, patriarchy, colonialism, ecological crisis, prisons, and borders.

In the first of a series of publications, the Abolition Collective renews and boldly extends the tradition of “abolition-democracy” espoused by figures like W.E.B. Du Bois, Angela Davis, and Joel Olson. Through study and publishing, the Abolition Collective supports radical scholarly and activist research, recognizing that the most transformative scholarship is happening both in the movements themselves and in the communities with whom they organize.

Abolishing Carceral Society features a range of creative styles and approaches from activists, artists, and scholars to create spaces for collective experimentation with the urgent questions of our time.

Through essays, interviews, visual art, and poetry, each presented in an accessible manner, the work engages with the meaning, practices, and politics of abolitionism in a range of historical and geographical contexts, including: prison and police abolitionism, border abolition, decolonization, slavery abolitionism, antistatism, antiracism, labor organizing, anticapitalism, radical feminism, queer and trans politics, Indigenous people’s politics, sex worker organizing, migrant activism, social ecology, animal rights and liberation, and radical pedagogy.

Introduction
Manifesto of the Abolition Journal
Long Live John Africa!—Mumia Abu-Jamal
“Make Racists Afraid Again”—Zola Montreal
Dismantle and Transform: On Abolition, Decolonization, and Insurgent Politics—Harsha Walia and Andrew Dilts
“After My Pa Cut the Grass”—Yvette Mayorga
Shifting Carceral Landscapes: Decarceration and the Reconfiguration of White Supremacy—Colleen Hackett and Ben Turk
“Shadow Boxing: A Chicana’s Journey from Vigilante Violence to Transformative Justice”—Lena Palacios
With Immediate Cause: Intense Dreaming as World-Making—Lena Palacios
“A Matter of National Security”—Sophia Terazawa
“The Horrors of Womanhood”—Anastazia Schmid
Crafting the Perfect Woman: How Gynecology, Obstetrics and American Prisons Operate to Construct and Control Women—Anastazia Schmid
“Guard Tower”—Leslie Gray
“Prison Treated Me Way Better Than You”: Reentry, Perplexity, and the Naturalization of Mass Imprisonment—Dr. Renee M. Byrd
Mass Incarceration is Religious (And so is Abolition): A Provocation—Joshua Dubler and Vincent Lloyd
“Opiate of the Masses”—Dan Tague
We Don’t Need No Education: Deschooling as an Abolitionist Practice—Sujani K. Reddy
“If you want you can have”—Maya Weeks
South African Students’ Question: Remake the University, or Restructure Society?—Alexandre Publia
 “On Objections to Pledging Allegiance”—Zaina Alsous
 “Check One”—Vincente ‘SubVersive’ Perez
All our Community’s Voices: Unteaching the Prison Literacy Complex—Michael Sutcliffe
Revolution and Restorative Justice: An Anarchist Perspective—Peter Kletsan
Untitled—Tess Scheflan
“(In)Visibility”—Siku Aloolo
Lessons on Abolition from Inside Women’s Prisons—Mianta McKnight
“Ailments”—Jake Villareal
#ResistCapitalism to #FundBlackFutures: Black Youth, Political Economy, and the Twenty-first Century Black Radical Imagination—David C. Turner
“I Seen Something”—Max Parthas
Reflections on White Supremacy—Jaan K. Laaman
“Plague”—Catherine Tafur
“Whole Foods”—Eric Allan Yankee 
Toward an Abolition Ecology—Nik Heynen