Spirituality and Abolition

• Ashon Crawley won the 2021 nonfiction Lammy Award for

The Lonely Letters • Book features interventions and artwork from incarcerated writers and artists

• Speaks to those interested in connecting spiritual practices and revolutionary politics

• Emphasizes the importance of spirituality and faith in cultivating hope during the COVID-19 pandemic, ecological crisis, and the violence of capitalism

• Abolition Collective is comprised of leading scholars and activists in the world abolition. The project is unparalleled in both its contributing members and its audience, from academics to incarcerated prisoners, as well as from students to veteran activists.

• Builds on the work of

Abolishing Carceral Society • and

Making Abolitionist Worlds • to offer a primer on what visionary activists mean when they connect the interlocking systems of repression, exploitation, and racism.

• A powerful call to join abolitionist movements in this country to address the roots of injustice.

• The question of abolition has gained significant traction in recent debates about police, prisons, as well as border detention and deportation—from #BlackLivesMatter to #AbolishICE.