In Pursuit of the Practice of Freedom by Joshua…
—Joy James, “The New Abolitionists” Abolition is about presence, not absence. It’s about building life-affirming institutions. —Ruth Wilson Gilmore —June Jordan, “Sunflower Sonnet Number Two” For those who are said to be and become nothing. Build nothing. Think nothing worth repeating or claiming as thought as such, the commonplace assertion that poetry makes nothing happen—largely attributed, it bears mentioning, to W.H. Auden, himself a poet held in high esteem by more than one shining star within the Black aesthetic tradition—simply doesn’t pass muster. Within vario...
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