Ask An Abolitionist
What is abolition? What does it look like in practice? Ask our friend, author, and former political prisoner Eric King your most burning questions about setting fire to the prisons and what we'll make out of the ashes.
Write to Eric and explore questions relating to harm and accountability, prisons and the prison industrial complex, and how you can practice abolition every day.
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Ask an Abolitionist: Supporting Trans Prisoners
Question: Hi Eric, I feel helpless when it comes to supporting trans prisoners and fighting back against the growing repression against them. How do we best offer our solidarity to trans people behind the bars? —-Protect Trans Prisoners, but how? Eric’s Answer: What...
Ask an Abolitionist: Prairieland defendants & snitches
Hi Eric, I want to offer support to the Prairieland defendants, but as I understand it, one of the defendants collaborated with the police. In your opinion, how do I maintain the ethics of "snitches get stitches" while also supporting the Prairieland defendants who...
Ask an Abolitionist: Life During Wartime
hello eric! i wanted to ask you this question when you were in oregon in may, but i was too shy, so seeing that you were accepting questions for this column gladdened me. essentially, i've fallen in love with a political prisoner. it is that future-altering,...
Ask An Abolitionist: Fascism & Prisons
Let me start by saying that we absolutely do not need martyrs inside. We gain nothing by having more of us stuck in those god damn cages…