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I Was Interviewed for an Elite Daily Piece on Abolition

Francisco Jose de Goya etching "Little Prisoner"

There are forms of policing that have nothing to do with walls. We have to understand the brutality of the prison-industrial complex, and we have to understand that we have normalized the existence of the prison-industrial complex in our lives.

I was interviewed, along with others, by Madhuri Satish for Elite Daily, about what abolitionist politics mean to me, as we approached Juneteenth. You can read the rest of “6 Modern Abolitionists On What Emancipation Means For Juneteenth 2020” here.

Image: “The Little Prisoner,” Francisco Goya, 1804