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Current Issue: Black Geographies and Transdisciplinary Abolitionist Education: Lifting Up Interlocking Struggles to Create Radical Possibilities

“And if we’re talking about redistributing the distribution of premature death that means it has to be really deeply articulated with the planet’s entire life in all of its forms, and the essential thing water that makes it possible for us to be water beings on the water planet.” –Ruth Wilson Gilmore 

Third World Liberation Mixtape (Escuelitas) by Shellyne Rodriguez

Volume 9/Issue 1, Fall 2024

Editorial Introduction to Black Geographies and Transdisciplinary Abolitionist Education: Lifting Up Interlocking Struggles to Create Radical Possibilities by Mieasia Edwards and Lucien Baskin

Constructing Livable Futures: An Analysis of the Possibilities of Black Community-based Educational Resistance by Imani Wilson

Survival Until Revolution: Mandatory Reporting, Anti-Blackness and Education by Alia, Ayla Gelsinger, Charity Hope Tolliver, Erica R. Meiners, Erin Miles Cloud, Jasmine Wali, Shannon Perez-Darby, Shawn Koyano, Van, and Alexis Nicole Neely

Mobilizing Destruction: Militant Decolonial Education to Organize Vulnerable Populations and Reduce Risk to Disasters by Charles Overton 

Where Is My Freedom? by Adrian Edmundson (Kyoshabire Adrine) 

Youth as Urban Alchemists: Engaging Black Geographies, Learning and Design by Kaleb Germinaro 

What Makes this Child Arrestable? by Gabrielle Warren

An Invitation: Slowing Down Time and Nurturing Relationships within a School Abolition Political Education Group by Jenna Queenan and Pam Segura

Labor and Completion by David A. Maldonado

Abolitionist University Studies: A Provocation by Conor ‘Coco’ Tomás Reed

Black Lives Matter in Higher Education: Empowering Student-Scholar Voices by Cynthia Tobar

Dear White America and other poems by Travis Richards

Picturing Refusal: How a Multimodal, Collaborative Assignment Allowed a Teacher Education Class to Develop Abolitionist Pedagogies by Kushya Sugarman

Whip to Baton? by Cinnamon Williams

Collective Drawing as Liberatory Method: An Abolitionist Toolkit for Community Meaning-Making, designed with CareNotCops by Sophie Plotkin, Samhitha Krishnan, Kelly Hui, and Neomi Rao

Community Violence Intervention & Prevention Strategies: Mitigating Variations in School and Neighborhood Violence by Asia. S. Ivey, Mia Karisa Dawson, & Shani Buggs 

Keep that Horizon as Broad as Possible: A Community Conversation on Abolitionist Praxis in Education by Atasi Das, Brian Jones, Edwin Mayorga, and Robert P. Robinson with Jordan Bell and Karen Zaino

Rehearsing Possibility on 52nd Street: The Gathering Plot of Malcolm X Park by Christopher R. Rogers

Everyone Prays in the End: Emancipating Generational Trauma Through Narratives of our Mothers by Darius Phelps 

Examining Transformative Ruptures in Education through Abolition as Presence & Black Livingness by Lucien Baskin and Mieasia Edwards

Notes on Contributors