Everyday Shit: Notes on Abolition and Reconstruction

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Everyday Shit: Notes on Abolition and Reconstruction

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W.E.B. Du Bois Movement School for Abolition and Reconstruction

Abolition / Black Liberation

Forthcoming, ships June 2026

The inaugural issue of the movement-focused and future-forward Abolition Journal quarterly after it was relaunched by the Philadelphia-based Abolition School.

This pilot issue of the revived Abolition Journal is produced by the Philadelphia-based W.E.B. Du Bois Movement School for Abolition & Reconstruction. It brings together two dozen urgent and timely interventions in political debates around abolition and aims to show how this abstract idea manifests itself in our daily lives.

These interventions, authored by a diverse cast of contributors, including academics and attorneys, so-called felons and physicians, artists and educators, and parents, playwrights and poets, explore the everyday experiences that come with trying to live out an abolitionist politics. In the words of the editors, these experiences include “the daily victories and errands, reflections and runarounds, gestures and drama, habits and heartbreaks, setbacks and surrenders, excuses and evasions, breakdowns and breakthroughs.”

The issue curates a variety of content, including political essays, short stories, poetry, interviews, and speeches, each resonating and reflecting in their own unique way on the central theme “Everyday Sh!t.” They offer thoughts and reflections on structure, practice, care, and direction to deepen existing movement knowledge and invite new audiences to see themselves mirrored within this work.
Without exception, these are stories of sincere experience mixed with radical poetic visions culled from the issue contributors’ plurality of pasts, presents, and prefigurative futures. Grounded in Philadelphia, yet looking out onto the whole wide world, Abolition Journal aims to reflect the lived complexity that can be messy and self-defeating, but equally authentic and inspiring.

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Product Details

ISBN: 9781945335624
Published: June 16, 2026
Format: Paperback
Size: 5 in x 7 in
Page count: 176

    1. Partners In Media Liberation
      Prison Radio Suite X Abolition Journal | Kevin “Rashid’ Johnson, Knowledgeborn Godallah, Krystal Clark, and Spoon Jackson

    2. An Invitation
      Editorial | Andrés González-Bonillas

    3. On Direction and On Poetry
      Editors’ Notes | Christopher R. Rogers and Gabriel Ramirez

    4. Abolition Is A Brick
      On The Origins Of The Du Bois Movement

    5. School | Geo Maher

    6. The High School Lunch Table Reimagined | David A. Gaines

    7. Relearning The Language Of Care
      Reflections On Disappearing A First Grader | Alexandrea Henry

    8. From Abolition School To Palestine
      Farwa Z. in Conversation w/ Nneka A. and Talia C.

    9. Abolition Journal Movement Moments
      Pao Rally Speech | Nneka A.

    10. Protest | Raina J. Léon

    11. The Kids | Alyesha Wise

    12. All (Purchasing) Power To The People | Saskia Kercy

    13. (Communique #1) | S.r. Lalo

    14. From Intention To Liberation
      Our World Within This World | Abbas Naqvi

    15. Standardized Test | Taylor Alyson Lewis

    16. The New Republic Of Kindergarten | Hiwot Adilow

    17. Holding The Jagged Edges | Shantell Missouri

    18. "Ultimately, What Any Of Us Want Is Structural Change" 
      No Arena In Chinatown X Abolition Journal Roundtable

    19. Healing “Body and Soul”
      On The Past and The Future Of Radical Health Politics In The Abolition Movement | Jake Sonnenberg

    20. Maximum Connection 
      Study and Struggle Between Haiti and Philadelphia | Talie Cerin and James Beltis X Woy Magazine

    21. Migrant Justice, Border Abolition and The Resistance Of Now 
      Sterling K. Johnson in Conversation w/ Viktoria Zerda

    22. I Knew There Was Something Different About Me Today 
      Jess X. Snow In Conversation w/ Diane Fujino and Robin D.g. Kelly

    23. Crime Data
      Three Things For Abolitionists To Consider | Tamara K. Nopper

    24. Everyday Acts of Disabled Resistance | Philly Breathes

    25. Rejection, Allegiance, and Choice
      A Mixtape About Abolition | Anthony “Ant” Smith

    26. Movement Life-in-the-Along | Christopher R. Rogers

    27. Reading Guide For Collective Study | Abolition Journal

    Author Biographies