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Ashon Crawley in conversation with Mariame Kaba and Derecka Purnell, in celebration of the release of Ashon Crawley’s Meditation on Abolition, a new zine published by Sojourners for Justice Press. Conceived by Mariame Kaba, Meditation on Abolition is a rumination on spirituality, Black pentecostalism, and abolitionist gestures in the mundane.
Limited edition copies printed and assembled by Lucky Risograph Press and Neta Bomani are available via Haymarket Books. Read more at: sojourners4justice.com/publications/#meditation-on-aboliton
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Ashon Crawley is an associate professor of religious studies and African American and African studies at University of Virginia. His work is about alternatives to normative function and form, otherwise possibility.
Mariame Kaba is an organizer, educator, curator, and prison industrial complex (PIC) abolitionist who is active in movements for racial, gender, and transformative justice. She is the founder and co-director of SJP.
Derecka Purnell is a human rights lawyer, researcher, and author of Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom. She works to end police and prison violence by providing legal assistance, research, and training in community based organizations through an abolitionist framework.
Kathryn-kay Johnson is a designer and art director. She designed the Meditation on Abolition zine by Ashon Crawley for Sojourners for Justice Press.
Sponsors
This Sojourners for Justice Press event is co-sponsored by Project NIA and the Barnard Center for Research on Women.
Ashon Crawley in conversation with Mariame Kaba and Derecka Purnell, in celebration of the release of Ashon Crawley’s Meditation on Abolition, a new zine published by Sojourners for Justice Press. Conceived by Mariame Kaba, Meditation on Abolition is a rumination on spirituality, Black pentecostalism, and abolitionist gestures in the mundane.
Limited edition copies printed and assembled by Lucky Risograph Press and Neta Bomani are available via Haymarket Books. Read more at: sojourners4justice.com/publications/#meditation-on-aboliton
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Ashon Crawley is an associate professor of religious studies and African American and African studies at University of Virginia. His work is about alternatives to normative function and form, otherwise possibility.
Mariame Kaba is an organizer, educator, curator, and prison industrial complex (PIC) abolitionist who is active in movements for racial, gender, and transformative justice. She is the founder and co-director of SJP.
Derecka Purnell is a human rights lawyer, researcher, and author of Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom. She works to end police and prison violence by providing legal assistance, research, and training in community based organizations through an abolitionist framework.
Kathryn-kay Johnson is a designer and art director. She designed the Meditation on Abolition zine by Ashon Crawley for Sojourners for Justice Press.
Sponsors
This Sojourners for Justice Press event is co-sponsored by Project NIA and the Barnard Center for Research on Women.
