Abolitionist Futures & Intentional Kin-Making
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2021 - 2022
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This research cluster seeks to develop practices of intentional kin-making across Black, Indigenous, and Diasporic communities. This work explicitly engages abolition as a practice that builds up non-punitive and non-hierarchical forms of knowledge production through an early fall week-long undergraduate institute on abolition and a published anthology. By practicing place-based solidarities across each activity, the research highlights and examines the importance of intentional kin-making across Indigenous and racialized communities and human/non-human relations.
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