AN ABOLITIONIST’S HANDBOOK by Patrisse Cullors - Publishers Weekly Review

Publishers Weekly | January 18, 2022

Cullors (When They Call You a Terrorist), a cofounder of the Black Lives Matter movement, delivers an accessible if diffuse guide to “abolitionist practice.” According to Cullors, abolition “centers on getting rid of prisons, jails, police, courts and surveillance,” but also includes the fight for improved water quality in cities and a more equal distribution of streaming revenue for musicians (“If there is any part of your life where you are trying to get free, it connects to abolitionist practice”). She draws on her personal life and activist experiences to offer advice on how to have “courageous conversations” about difficult subjects, and how to “imagin[e] beyond the status quo” of “white supremacist capitalist patriarchy.”

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