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Abolitionist Intimacies

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Chapter 6 explores ways of more just and dignified treatment of incarcerated people and those policed by the state. Discussing the topic of carceral intimacies, the friendship methods of engagement with incarcerated people, the role of women (mothers, girlfriends, support workers, and advocates),  how prisons traumatizes families and victimizes children, gender dynamics, the child welfare system and its effects on Indigenous women and families through colonialism, the dehumanization of personhood and privacy, the essay “We Gon Be Alright,” and poems Easter Sunday, 2018, and “Many of My Brothers.”

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El Jones

El Jones is a poet, journalist, professor and activist living in Halifax, Nova Scotia. She teaches at Mount Saint Vincent University, where she was named the 15th Nancy’s Chair in Women’s Studies in 2017. She was Halifax’s Poet Laureate from 2013 to 2015. She is the author of Live from the Afrikan Resistance!, a collection of poems about resisting white colonialism. Her work focuses on social justice issues, such as feminism, prison abolition, anti-racism and decolonization. Since 2016, she has co-hosted a radio show called Black Power Hour, on CKDU-FM where listeners from prisons call in to rap and read their poetry, providing a voice to people who rarely get a wide audience.