Upcoming Reading Groups
Autumn 2023 Book Club - Reading Abolition Revolution by Aviah Day & Shanice McBean.
Our next Abolitionist Futures Reading Group will run in January - March 2024.
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2023 Reading group
17th Jan 2023 Session 1: Introduction to Abolition
31st Jan 2023 Session 2: What’s wrong with reform?
14th Feb 2023 Session 3: Feminist, Queer, Antiracist Abolition
28th Feb 2023 Session 4: Policing, Anti Racism & Abolition
14th Mar 2023 Session 5: Transformative Justice
28th Mar 2023 Session 6: Everyday Abolition
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On zoom 7:30pm-9pm UTC/GMT
Previous events
Mutual Aid: Building solidarity during this crisis (and the next) Dean Spade
23rd March 2021 Session One: Introduction to Mutual Aid [Chapter 1 – 3 (42 pages) + video (7 mins)]
27th April 2021 Session Two:Pitfalls and how to avoid them [Chapter 4 – half of chapter 5 (pages 43-104)]
25th May 2021 Session Three: End of Chapter 5 (pages 104-148)
Bookclub: Race to the Bottom
Mon 17th Oct 2022 7pm - 8:30pm Session One
Mon 21st Nov 2022 7pm - 8:30pm Session Two
Mon 12th Dec 2022 7pm - 8:30pm Session Three
Race to the Bottom: Reclaiming Anti Racism by Azfar Shafi and Ilyas Nagdee
Antiracist movements are more mainstream than ever before. Liberal democracies boast of their policies designed to stamp out racism in all walks of life. Why then is racism still ever-present in our society?
Race to the Bottom traces our current crisis back decades, to the fragmentation of Britain's Black Power movements and their absorption into NGOs and the Labour Party.
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poc a dot reading groups are for Black people and people of colour only.
19th Jan 2021 - Session 1: Introduction to Abolition
16th Feb 2021- Session 2: What’s wrong with reform? What are non- reformist reforms?
16th Mar 2021 - Session 3: Feminist, queer, antiracist approaches to abolition
20th Apr 2021 - Session 4: Transformative Justice & Abolition
18th May 2021 - Session 5: Abolitionist Mutual Aid in response to Covid 19
15th Jun 2021- Session 6: Black Lives Matter & Defund the Police
Trans Abolitionist Futures
Trans Abolitionist Futures : Trans Abolitionist Futures is a reading group for trans people (including nonbinary people) interested in learning more about prison abolition in the UK in a discussion space exclusively for trans people.
(Please note this group is now full/sold out)
25th Nov 2021 - Session 1: Introduction to Abolition
2nd Dec 2021 - Session 2: What’s wrong with reform? What are non- reformist reforms?
9th Dec 2021 - Session 3: Feminist, queer, antiracist approaches to abolition
16th Dec 2021 - Session 4: Transformative Justice & Abolition
6th Jan 2021 - Session 5: Abolitionist Mutual Aid in response to Covid 19
13th Jan 2021- Session 6: Black Lives Matter & Defund the Police
20th Jan 2021 - Session 7: Trans prison issues in the UK
Past Reading Groups
Past Reading Groups continued
London Dalston
Feb 2020
Stoke On Trent
Feb 2020
Manchester
Feb 2020