Mariame Kaba

Nov 14, 2024 | towardliberation.com | Kelly Hayes |Mariame Kaba

Over the last week, I've talked a lot, read a lot, watched a little, written, waded into the cesspool of comment sections, listened, raged, analyzed, and consoled. I think that about covers it. What have you been up to? I suspect we've all been doing some combination of the above in the deep stages of processing the election results and feeling fear, doubt, anger, angst, and determination.

Jun 21, 2024 | audiobooks.com | Kelly Hayes |Mariame Kaba

What fuels and sustains activism and organizing when it feels like our worlds are collapsing? Let This Radicalize You is a practical and imaginative resource for activists and organizers building power in an era of destabilization and catastrophe.

Jun 17, 2024 | bostonreview.net | Mariame Kaba

Scanning the twenty-first-century political landscape in 2018, essayist Rana Dasgupta issued a provocation: “The most momentous development of our era, precisely, is the waning of the nation state.”Dasgupta had in mind the global intensification of authoritarian politics, and the last six years have only exacerbated that trend. The same international system that failed to avert genocide in Bosnia and Rwanda is again allowing it in Gaza, Sudan, and with escalating risk in Ethiopia.

Jun 17, 2024 | bostonreview.net | Mariame Kaba |Andrea Ritchie

During a virtual convening hosted last year by Interrupting Criminalization, the organization we cofounded in 2018, abolitionist scholar and geographer Ruth Wilson Gilmore offered a provocation central to the question of how abolitionist organizers relate to the state: How do we, as a society, accomplish “big things” with and for people we don’t know or necessarily like?

Apr 30, 2024 | haymarketbooks.org | Angela Davis |Gina Dent |Mariame Kaba |Ray Acheson

“Abolition and Social Work provides a frank and detailed analysis of how social work is shaped by and executes the work of the carceral state, and how social workers committed to abolition are struggling to dismantle criminalization within institutions designed to contain and control people. This book should be required reading for all social work students and everyone else who works closely with social workers—lawyers, nurses, teachers, mental health providers of all kinds.