In this landmark work four of the world's leading scholar-activists issue an urgent call for a
truly intersectional internationalist abolitionist feminism. As a politics and as a practice
abolitionism has increasingly shaped our political moment amplified through the worldwide
protests following the 2020 murder of George Floyd by a uniformed police officer. It is at the
heart of the Black Lives Matter movement in its demands for police defunding and
demilitarisation and a halt to prison construction. And it is there in the outrage which
greeted the brutal treatment of women by police at the 2021 Clapham Common vigil for Sarah
Everard. As this book shows abolitionism and feminism stand shoulder-to-shoulder in fighting a
common cause: the end of the carceral state with its key role in perpetuating violence both
public and private in prisons in police forces and in people's homes. Abolitionist theories
and practices are at their most compelling when they are feminist and a feminism that is also
abolitionist is the most inclusive and persuasive version of feminism for these times.
Abolition. Feminism. Now! 'This extraordinary book makes the most compelling case I've ever
seen for the indivisibility of feminism and abolition' Robin D. G. Kelley author of Freedom
Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination 'Attentive to histories of organising that are too
quickly erased and alive to new possibilities for working collectively in the present time
this book is as capacious and demanding as the abolitionist feminism it calls for' Sara Ahmed
author of Willful Subjects
