Born from sustained organizing, and rooted in Black and women of
color feminisms, disability justice, and other movements, abolition
calls for an end to our reliance on imprisonment, policing and
surveillance, and to imagine a safer future for our communities.
Lessons in
Liberation: An Abolitionist Toolkit for Educators offers entry
points to build critical and intentional bridges between educational
practice and the growing movement for abolition. Designed for
educators, parents, and young people, this toolkit shines a light on
innovative abolitionist projects, particularly in pre-K-12 learning
contexts.
Sections are
dedicated to entry points into Prison Industrial Complex abolition
and education; the application of the lessons and principles of
abolition; and stories about growing abolition outside of school
settings. Topics addressed throughout include student organizing,
immigrant justice in the face of ICE, approaches to sex education,
arts-based curriculum, and building abolitionist skills and thinking
in lesson plans.
The result of
patient and urgent work, and more than five years in the making,
Lessons in Liberation invites educators into the work of
abolition.
Contributors include
Black Organizing Project, Chicago Women's Health Center, Mariame Kaba
and Project NIA, Bettina L. Love, the MILPA Collective, and artists
from the Justseeds Collective, among others.