A review by butch
We Do This 'til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice by Mariame Kaba

hopeful informative reflective sad fast-paced

4.5

superb collection of Kaba's writings and interviews from within the past 8 years. she's incredibly sharp and direct with her words and they challenged me in ways that i needed. i was particularly drawn to the chapter called "Moving Past Punishment," which includes a 2019 interview she did. here she discusses de-centering individual feeling and emotions from abolition frameworks and practices as well as the understanding that accountability is not punishment. "We shouldn't codify our personal feelings of vengeance to apply to the entire world" was a sentence that really made me sit and reflect.