Visualizing Abolition Online Event Series
What does it mean to think of abolitionism as a vision—one that challenges the social, economic, and political worldviews that prisons promote?
What does it mean to think of abolitionism as a vision—one that challenges the social, economic, and political worldviews that prisons promote?
Sesnon Gallery Speak Up presents Revolutionary Greetings!, a series of events focused on letter writing and open discussion about connecting with people who are incarcerated.
For the next Visualizing Abolition event, join legal and popular culture theorist Sora Han, author and activist adrienne maree brown, and urban anthropologist Savannah Shange for a conversation on strategies, activism, and liberatory futures. What are the creative and radical abolitionist methods that are creating the future that "we long for," in brown's words, in the present?
The Underground Scholars Initiative's mission is to build community, awareness, and support among formerly incarcerated and system impacted students into higher education and proliferate the concept of a "Prison-to-University Pipeline." Founded in 2013 at UC Berkeley, the Underground Scholars Initiative has spread across the state with chapters at community colleges and UC campuses at UCLA, UC Irvine, UC Riverside, UC Santa Barbara, UC San Diego, UC Davis, UC Merced, and UC Santa Cruz.