Abolition: In Defence of Translation

A series of presentations, organising workshops, conversations and performances reflecting on the many dimensions of abolition, curated and programmed by Lola Olufemi and Imani Robinson.

Archived Event

Dates	09 - 30 Sep 2021
Space	In person & Online

Across a weekly programme of in person and online events throughout September, Abolition: In Defence of Translation looks to explore how people might, following the critical texts of prison abolitionist and scholar Ruth Wilson Gilmore, live in “antagonistic contradiction” to spaces and practices of incarceration.

The series aims to utilise radical imagining as a tool to help inform this antagonism whilst grappling with abolition as an urgent materialist demand; creating a space to reflect and to leave attendees with practical skills that might be used to make critical interventions against carcerality (raids, deportation, prisons) in their own contexts.

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