In
Meditation on Abolition, Ashon Crawley discusses how the
spiritual community of his youth, Blackpentecostalism, gave him a way
into abolition as a practice of concern, as a practice of care. He
demonstrates that any community formation or institutional practice
has within the capacity to be disrupted by the liberative energies of
abolitionist practice. It can be disrupted when we commit daily to
enacting abolition—not just with regard to incarceration but in all
our relationships, friendships, comraderly engagements. When
practiced daily, in the mundane, abolition can become the reflexive
posture from which to sense the world and act with, in and through
it.
Part of the Sojourners for Justice series
