COMMUNITY ABOLITION GARDEN
SEEDS OF COMMUNITY, BLOSSOMS OF CHANGE
Abolition Garden assembles draftwork and ephemera from the fellows’ projects and engagements, as well as more about their collaborators’ work and roles.
Here you’ll find collections of notes, vision boards, reflections, and more—all drafts, traces, and residue generated by the fellows and their work throughout the fellowship.
This garden highlights and cultivates the transformative work of abolition in artistic and activist practice foundational to the Artivism Fellowship’s roots.
Abolitionist Practice in Context
We are grateful to the authors who developed the guiding points, 8 to Abolition. Rooted in abolitionist lineages of abundance, mutual aid, and community care, these 8 points outline tangible, reachable goals for enacting abolitionist futures in the present.
For their projects each fellow has taken one or more point as a ground and method for community engagement and creative practice.
DRAFTWORK
ABOLITIONISTS
Draftwork from ML Roberts
How does abuse originate and how do we stop it? A liberatory collective of Black women farmers become abolitionists after kidnapping the abuser of one of their members. Inspired by the work of Mariame Kaba, Mimi Kim and countless Transformative Justice practitioners, this play examines the causes of and efforts to address gendered violence in an imagined community as a means towards modeling alternatives to punitive and carceral systems in our real ones.
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Draftwork from Simone Immanuel