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Forward Radio podcastsTruth to Power | Dr. Beth Richie | Abolition Feminisim | 11-21-25Forward Radio was proud to be at the 19th Annual Anne Braden Memorial Lecture, entitled “Abolition Feminism and Anti-Racist Praxis” featuring Dr. Beth Richie of the University of Illinois at Chicago. Dr. Richie’s extensive research examines how race and gender impact experiences of criminalization and justice, and she has long collaborated closely with communities, impacted individuals, and movements, including as a founding member of INCITE!: Women of Color Against Violence. She is Distinguished Professor of Criminology, Law, and Justice and of Black Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago, author of “Arrested Justice: Black Women, Violence, and America’s Prison N...
2025-11-2158 min
The Popaganda PodcastPop Culture Chisme 2025What if you could sit in on our group chat—unedited, unfiltered, and supported by a quick check-in with Daddy Google? In our 2nd annual Pop Culture Chisme episode, we unpack the messiness of reality TV, the chokehold The Pit had on us, and the power of Alex Cooper naming abuse in sports.This time, we edit nothing—no cuts, lots of “ums,” and even more chisme. You’ll feel like you’re sitting in on a late-night text chain, jumping from how Love Island USA disaster crash-outs say more about race and gender than romance to the tragedy...
2025-08-2559 min
Return the Key: Jewish Questions for EveryoneEpisode 24: Freedom From and Freedom ToIn episode 24, I speak with Judith Levine, journalist activist, and author of five books. Judith and I (who go way back!) discuss our shared experience of losing parents to Alzheimer’s, asking what makes a self if not language, if not the mind, asking how we can value one another, even when the “self” seems to be gone. We then discuss Judith’s co-authored book (with Erica L. Meiners), The Feminist and the Sex Offender: Confronting Sexual Harm, Ending State Violence. Judith talks about the intense backlash to her earlier book, Harmful to Minors: The Perils of Protecting Children from Sex...
2025-08-161h 03
Stories for PowerChicagoDeana Lewis talks with Mariame Kaba, Erica Meiners, and Shira Hassan - three abolitionist feminists who discuss the work they created and built in Chicago from the early 2000’s through the early 2010’s. They reflect on their path from witnessing the failures of the mainstream anti-violence movement especially for survivors, young people, formerly incarcerated people and sex workers – to experimenting and documenting their work in what became known as community accountability processes, transformative justice and abolitionist organizing. They talk about their relationships and how their solidarity and partnership fed their ability to experiment, find joy in the grief and ultima...
2025-06-1056 min
Sad FranciscoUniting Against Prison Guard Unions with Erica Meiners and Priya KandaswamErica Meiners and Priya Kandaswamy on how prison guard unions use the valor of labor movement to reinforce the prison industrial complex. TW: Discussion of brutality, murder, sexual assault and suicide of prisoners at the hands of prison employees. "Prisons Are Anti-Labor Institutions. We Need an Anti-Carceral Labor Movement." (Truthout) https://truthout.org/articles/prisons-are-anti-labor-institutions-we-need-an-anti-carceral-labor-movement/ Legal Aid Society: "I'm Just Collateral Damage. The Human Cost of an Illegal Prison Strike" https://legalaidnyc.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/LAS_PrisonersRightsProject_ClientStoriesReport_Final.pdf Southern Poverty Law Center on white supremacy among prison g...
2025-04-2137 min
shado in focus“There’s a very short step between suffragette organising and fascism.” by Larissa KennedyWelcome back! This week's article in focus is brought to us by Larissa Kennedy and speaks on how Leah Cowan explores the realities of, and possibilities for, British feminism. Larissa Kennedy is a writer, movement griot/jali (storyteller), and community organiser from South London with roots in Jamaica, Barbados, and St. Vincent & the Grenadines. She has a BA in Politics, International Studies and Hispanic Studies from the University of Warwick, where her research focused on historicising climate justice in the Anglophone and Hispanophone Caribbean. During her time as an undergraduate, Larissa was formerly President of the N...
2024-12-3017 min
Feminist KeywordsCarceralityIn this episode, Karma Chávez talks with University of Illinois-Chicago Professor Beth Richie, author of the "carcerality" entry in Keywords for Gender and Sexuality Studies. Dr. Richie discusses her life long work challenging prisons and mass incarceration, the importance of challenging carceral logics through teaching inside and outside of prisons, and the necessity of a feminist abolitionist politics. Bios: Karma R. Chávez (she/her) is Chair and Bobby and Sherri Patton Professor in the Department of Mexican American and Latina/o Studies at UT Austin | @queermigrations Beth E. Richie (she/her) is...
2024-07-0824 min
WIC-Ed Podcast“I’m Tired. Again:” Survivorship and Queer Communities of Care, with Nealob KakarHappy Pride Month! This month’s episode of the WIC-Ed podcast features Nealob Kakar, talking to public educator Cindy McMann about queer communities of care, transformational change and why the word resilience makes us suspicious and tired.Resources:Building Accountable Communities video series, Barnard Center for Research on Women Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next), Dean Spade Abolition. Feminism. Now., Angela Y. Davis, Gina Dent, Erica R. Meiners, and Beth E. Richie Insurgent Love: Abolition an...
2024-06-1748 minWIC-Ed Podcast“What Does Justice Look Like for You?” Restorative Justice Processes, with Community Justice InitiativesMay is Sexual Violence Prevention Month! This month, Public Educator Cindy McMann sat down with Kate Crozier of Community Justice Initiatives (CJI), along with 2 guests with experience in restorative justice processes. Kate and her guests take us through restorative justice alternatives to the criminal legal system, what the process is like for people who have experienced sexual harm and for people who have caused harm, how restorative justice can empower survivors of sexual violence, and what we can do to make this option more widely available to survivors.Content Warning: sexual violence, sexual harm to...
2024-05-2859 min
Feminist Book Club: The PodcastGraphic Novels & Black FeministsFour Graphic Novels for 2024 (0:22) Looking for a graphic novel to pick up? In this segment Rah shares four graphic novels that are making their way onto shelves in 2024. Recommended in this segment: Freshman Year by Sarah Mai Tender by Beth Hetland Full of Myself by Siobhán Gallagher Mothballs by Sole Otero Black Feminists Who Helped Me Unlearn My White Feminism (8:42) As a white woman raised in a white community, Renee's feminism wasn't very intersectional until she got to g...
2024-02-2725 min
Socialism ConferenceAbolition. Feminism. Now.Angela Y. Davis, Gina Dent, Erica R. Meiners, and Beth E. Richie speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2023.
Join leading scholar-activists as they reflect on the often unrecognized genealogies of queer, anti-capitalist, internationalist, grassroots, and women-of-color-led feminist movements that have helped to define abolition and feminism in the twenty-first century, and ground our conference weekend in the theories of change generated out of vibrant community based organizing.
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2023-11-271h 16
Art Heals All WoundsBrittany Delany, Dancer and Choreographer: Free the Body: Exploring Personal, Cultural, Social, and Political Liberation Through Interactive Art and MovementToday, I’m joined by Brittany Delany, a dancer, choreographer, and co-director of the dance and social justice collective GROUND SERIES. We discuss the latest project from GROUND SERIES called “Free the Body,” an interactive art installation at The Coachella Valley Art Center that explores what it means to free the body within personal, cultural, social, and political settings. In our conversation, Brittany describes the inception of this project and how different elements of writing, sound, movement, and visual art were introduced. She shares what people can expect from the installation, including the various workshops the collective is hosting with l...
2023-05-1747 min
Socialist News and ViewsSNV Special Interview: AbolitionRecorded (2/5/2023) and Uploaded (2/9/2023)
In this Special Interview we speak with Jessica Garraway. Garraway is a teacher, an activist (doing labor work, environmental work, anti-fascist work and more) as well as a writer (Common Dreams: https://www.commondreams.org/author/jessica-garraway & Truthout: https://truthout.org/authors/jessica-garraway/) and musician who was at involved in the Standing Rock encampment, Line 3 Protests, the Jamar Clark Uprising and the George Floyd Uprising. In this special we talk about the idea of Abolition and how that ties in with environmental activism, feminism and labor as well as the idea of community defense.
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2023-02-0934 min
Memoir Body, Healing Story with Janelle Hardy137: ACADEMIC WRITING: Michelle Boyd on ...Michelle Boyd, PhD, is the founder of InkWell Academic Writing Retreats, a transformative, retreat-based training program that teaches scholars to overcome their writing fears. I met Michelle through a personal introduction via Tara McMullin's small business What Works Network. Someone there thought I'd like Michelle and her work, and they were completely right. Michelle is a kindred spirit and does wonderful work in the world. I'm so delighted to share a conversation that traverses (and helps me heal) the world of academia and academic writing, making the switch to entrepreneurship and supporting aspiring writers. Michelle...
2022-11-111h 33
UC Berkeley Underground Scholars: ON THE TIERLet's Talk Abolition with Dr. Erica R. Meiners and David Maldonado We are back with another fire episode of On the Tier with the Berkeley Underground Scholars. In this episode, our host, Daniela Medina, sits down with comrades Dr. Erica Meiners and David Maldonado, co-authors of the article “In Due Time: Meditations on Abolition at the Site of the University.” Dr. Erica Meiners is an organizer, writer, and professor of education and women’s, gender, and sexuality studies at Northeastern Illinois University. She recently co-wrote “Abolition. Femism. Now.” alongside feminist pioneers Angela Davis, Gina Dent, and Beth E. Richie. David Maldonado is a West Berkeley native and one of the founding me...
2022-09-0746 min
Repros for IowaS2 Ep 7 Abolition with Yasmina S.So grateful to have Yasmina back on the show to talk about police abolition. To read more about police abolition, check out "Abolition. Feminism. Now" by Angela Davis, Gina Dent, Erica Meiners and Beth Richie. For more info on the Iowa DOC statistics go to Iowa Prison Statistics | data.iowa.gov.
2022-08-201h 07
Interdependent StudyAbolish the School to Prison NexusThe importance of having safe, thriving, and transformative schools requires that we actively work to end the school-to-prison pipeline. Listen as Aaron and Damien discuss an Urban Review: Issues and Ideas in Public Education journal article by Erica R. Meiners called “Ending the School-to-Prison Pipeline/Building Abolition Futures”, and what this scholarly work offers us as we continue to learn about all facets of the school-to-prison pipeline and embrace and push for abolitionist ways to create a better and more just society for our children and communities.
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2022-06-0137 min
Book of LeavesListening, Feminism, & Youth Involvement - Amy O'BrienFor episode 65 I chatted to Amy O'Brien whom you may know from The Sustainable Sleepover Podcast (which I definitely recommend checking out if you haven't already!) about her experience as an activism campaigning for social justice from climate issues to women's rights. You can keep up to date with her on Instagram @b_amyo or find her other socials and projects here. [03.35] Who Amy is![06:00]] What instilled a love of nature in Amy.[10:35] The Sustainable Sleepover Club podcast.[14:05] Stand out moment of the podast: Episode 4 with Mitsy[16:45] What it means to listen more.[20:05] What Amy thinks needs to b...
2022-05-1643 minInterdependent StudyLet's talk about Abolition. Feminism. Now.Abolition feminism is guiding us towards the liberated future we all deserve. Listen as Aaron and Damien discuss the book Abolition. Feminism. Now. by Angela Y. Davis, Gina Dent, Erica R. Meiners, and Beth E. Richie, and what we learn from their work to trace and analyze the historical genealogies of abolition, feminism, and abolition feminism, key internationalist learnings, and everyday practices to grow our collective and flourishing present and future.
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2022-05-0436 min
Under the Tree: A Seminar on Freedom with Bill AyersJoy and Justice: Collaborating toward FreedomWe live in a time and a place where the cage has become naturalized, where punitive, punishing measures are the “normal,” “common sense” responses to any harm or despair. Crushing cruelty deletes care and support. We’re joined by two powerful thinkers and life-long freedom-fighters: Beth Richie is head of the Department of Criminology, Law, and Justice at the University of Illinois at Chicago; Erica Meiners is a professor of education, and women’s, gender, and sexuality studies at Northeastern Illinois University. They have worked together for decades, most recently on a book they co-authored with Gina Dent and Angela Davis...
2022-03-231h 10
Renoites- The Podcast about Reno NevadaLily Baran on Activism, Advocacy, Anarchism and Mutual AidIf you have been paying attention to any of the big news stories in Reno for the last few years, you’ve probably heard a lot from the local activist community.
From the protests following the police killing of George Floyd in 2020, to the Stop the Sweeps protests and rallies which picked up steam last year, all the way up to the recent community meetings about development and the Jacobs’ Neon Line project, the voices of our local activist community have been a common presence.
This week on Renoites, Conor speaks with Lily Baran about the m...
2022-02-231h 12Interdependent StudyFeminism and abolition are intertwinedThe authors of Abolition. Feminism. Now. use the phrase “slow work in urgent times” to remind us that we must continue our collective movement and organizing work to address our most pressing challenges and get us to the place where we want to be. Listen as Aaron and Damien discuss Haymarket Books’ Abolition. Feminism. Now. panel event featuring authors Angela Y. Davis, Gina Dent, Erica R. Meiners, and Beth E. Richie, and moderated by Mariame Kaba. This wide-ranging and inspiring conversation teaches us about the power of abolition feminism, the continued work necessary to dismantle the prison industrial complex and pu...
2022-02-1635 min
Pretty Heady StuffGina Dent & Erica Meiners offer abolition feminism as a way to fight the prison-industrial complexGina Dent is an associate professor of feminist studies, history of consciousness, and legal studies at UC Santa Cruz in California. Erica R. Meiners is professor of education and Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Northeastern Illinois University. Dent and Meiners are two of the four creators of a pivotal new book from Haymarket entitled Abolition. Feminism. Now. (https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1546-abolition-feminism-now) It’s an essential text that was also co-written by Angela Davis and Beth Ritchie, two central thinkers on the prison industrial complex and its deep connections to racial capitalism. Abolition. Feminism. Now. is an invitation to...
2022-02-151h 07
Haymarket Books LiveAbolition. Feminism. Now. w/ Angela Davis, Mariame Kaba, Gina Dent, Erica Meiners & Beth RichieJoin Angela Y. Davis, Gina Dent, Erica R. Meiners, and Beth E. Richie for an urgent conversation moderated by Mariame Kaba.
As a politic and a practice, abolition increasingly shapes our political moment — halting the construction of new jails and propelling movements to divest from policing. Yet erased from this landscape are not only the central histories of feminist — usually queer, anti-capitalist, grassroots, and women of color — organizing that continue to cultivate abolition but a recognition of the stark reality: abolition is our best response to endemic forms of state and interpersonal gender and sexual violence. Amplifying the analysis and the th...
2022-02-151h 21
Pretty Heady StuffArdath Whynacht advocates insurgent love & indicts the carceral system that colonialism builtArdath Whynacht is an activist and writer who works for and with survivors of state and family violence. She’s also a professor of sociology at Mount Allison University and the author of a new book called Insurgent Love: Abolition and Domestic Homicide (https://fernwoodpublishing.ca/book/insurgent-love).
The radical, utopian and absolutely necessary prospect of abolition is on people’s minds. As Angela Davis, Gina Dent, Erica R. Meiners, and Beth Richie argue in the new book Abolition. Feminism. Now: It would be “Inconceivable to many even ten years ago, [that] jail closure, the elimination of money bond, clemency, and ‘c...
2022-02-071h 00
Start The Full Audiobook Everyone Is Talking About — So Ground-Breaking!Abolition. Feminism. Now. by Gina Dent, Beth Richie, Erica Meiners, Angela Y. DavisPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/523094to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Abolition. Feminism. Now.
Author: Gina Dent, Beth Richie, Erica Meiners, Angela Y. Davis
Narrator: Gina Dent
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 5 hours 3 minutes
Release date: January 13, 2022
Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1
Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1
Genres: Social Science
Publisher's Summary:
Brought to you by Penguin. In this landmark work, four of the world's leading scholar-activists set out a vital, urgent manifesto for a truly intersectional, internationalist, abolitionist feminism. As a politics and as a practice, abolitionism has increasingly shaped our political moment, amplified through the worldwide protests following...
2022-01-135h 03Stream Popular Full Audiobooks in Non-Fiction, Social ScienceAbolition. Feminism. Now. by Gina Dent, Beth Richie, Erica Meiners, Angela Y. DavisPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/523094to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Abolition. Feminism. Now.
Author: Gina Dent, Beth Richie, Erica Meiners, Angela Y. Davis
Narrator: Gina Dent
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 5 hours 3 minutes
Release date: January 13, 2022
Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1
Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1
Genres: Social Science
Publisher's Summary:
Brought to you by Penguin. In this landmark work, four of the world's leading scholar-activists set out a vital, urgent manifesto for a truly intersectional, internationalist, abolitionist feminism. As a politics and as a practice, abolitionism has increasingly shaped our political moment, amplified through the worldwide protests following...
2022-01-135h 03
New Books in Sex, Sexuality, and Sex WorkJudith Levine and Erica Meiners, "The Feminist and the Sex Offender: Confronting Sexual Harm, Ending State Violence" (Verso, 2020)There are two problems that are typically siloed in the era of #MeToo and mass incarceration: sexual and gender violence, on the one hand, and the state’s unjust, ineffective, and soul-destroying response to it on the other. Is it possible to confront the culture of abuse? Is it possible to hold harm-doers accountable without recourse to a criminal justice system that redoubles injuries, fails survivors, and retrenches the conditions that made such abuse possible?The Feminist and the Sex Offender: Confronting Sexual Harm, Ending State Violence (Verso, 2020), by Judith Levine and Erica Meiners (Verso Books, 2020), develops an i...
2021-09-011h 03
New Books in LawJudith Levine and Erica Meiners, "The Feminist and the Sex Offender: Confronting Sexual Harm, Ending State Violence" (Verso, 2020)There are two problems that are typically siloed in the era of #MeToo and mass incarceration: sexual and gender violence, on the one hand, and the state’s unjust, ineffective, and soul-destroying response to it on the other. Is it possible to confront the culture of abuse? Is it possible to hold harm-doers accountable without recourse to a criminal justice system that redoubles injuries, fails survivors, and retrenches the conditions that made such abuse possible?The Feminist and the Sex Offender: Confronting Sexual Harm, Ending State Violence (Verso, 2020), by Judith Levine and Erica Meiners (Verso Books, 2020), develops an intersectional feminist appr...
2021-09-011h 05
New Books in Policing, Incarceration, and ReformJudith Levine and Erica Meiners, "The Feminist and the Sex Offender: Confronting Sexual Harm, Ending State Violence" (Verso, 2020)There are two problems that are typically siloed in the era of #MeToo and mass incarceration: sexual and gender violence, on the one hand, and the state’s unjust, ineffective, and soul-destroying response to it on the other. Is it possible to confront the culture of abuse? Is it possible to hold harm-doers accountable without recourse to a criminal justice system that redoubles injuries, fails survivors, and retrenches the conditions that made such abuse possible?The Feminist and the Sex Offender: Confronting Sexual Harm, Ending State Violence (Verso, 2020), by Judith Levine and Erica Meiners (Verso Books, 2020), develops an i...
2021-09-011h 03
Philosophy Casting CallOn trigger warnings as epistemic virtues w/Anna V.This is the one where Élaina interviews Anna V. about loving theory, feminist philosophy of language, and the importance of trigger warnings for epistemic quality.You can follow Anna on Twitter @a_nonamename where they post about their research and new publications.Books mentioned in this episode: “The Coddling of the American Mind”, by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt “Re-Enchanting the World: Feminism and the Politics of the Commons”, by Silvia Federici “The Feminist and the Sex Offender: Confronting Sexual Harm, Ending State Violence”, by Erica R. Meiners and Judith LevineArticle men...
2021-06-2850 min
Haymarket Books LiveWe Do This 'Til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice w/ Mariame Kaba & moreCelebrate the publication of We Do This 'Til We Free Us with a discussion about prison industrial complex (PIC) abolition, seeking justice beyond the criminal punishment system, and finding hope in collective struggle for abolition, featuring contributors and organizers from the book.
What if social transformation and liberation isn’t about waiting for someone else to come along and save us? What if ordinary people have the power to collectively free ourselves? In We Do This 'Til We Free Us, Mariame Kaba reflects on the deep work of abolition and transformative political struggle.
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Speakers: Shira Hassan, Kelly Hayes, Rachel Herzing, Mariame Kaba, Erica Meiners and Ta...
2021-03-051h 14
KZSC Santa CruzTransformation Highway- Visualizing Abolition- Gina DentGina Dent is an activist, author and associate professor of Feminist Studies and History of Consciousness at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Dent discusses the movement to abolish police and prisons and efforts to create community health and safety without systems of coercion and punishment. "Visualizing Abolition" is a year-long series featuring artists, activists, scholars and lawyers struggling for prison abolition. Presented by the Institute for Arts and Sciences at UCSC, the events run from October 20 to May 19, 2021 and are, "designed to examine the ways people see and understand issues of mass incarceration, detention, an...
2020-11-1659 min
School SpiritsEpisode 3 - Anti-Racist PedagogiesKatherine and Holland discuss recent research about engaging in anti-racist pedagogies, including an article by Dr. Erika Bullock and Dr. Erica Meiners as well as an article by Dr. April Baker-Bell. Join us as we think through these articles, and maybe even try out our Schoolbus cocktail as you listen (very loose recipe included).
2020-08-2047 min
Rustbelt Abolition RadioSchools, Prisons, and Abolitionist FuturesIn today’s episode, “Schools, prisons and Abolitionist futures”, we explore the parallels by which the institutions of prisons and schools work to reproduce our current society, and how they illuminate challenges in the rocky passageways toward abolition. We speak with imprisoned intellectual Harold “HH” Gonzales about the history of school segregation and the construction of the so-called school to prison pipeline. We also hear from Erica Meiners, who discusses how schools are embedded in carceral regimes, and encourages us to view them through the wider lens of abolitionist struggle. We conclude the episode with imprisoned artist Steven Hibbler, on how the po...
2017-08-1400 min
Excerpts – Ghadar Now!Beyond The Carceral RegimeSex offender registries are yet another part of the carceral regime. But is this criticism unsubstantiated without detailing alternatives? [Download Link] This statement is part of many abolition statements published by the journal, Abolition: A Journal of Insurgent Politics. Read the original post here. Transcript: “Notes Against & Beyond Our Carceral Regime: Erica Meiners on Abolition,” a statement published… Continue reading Beyond The Carceral Regime
2016-05-2600 min
Ghadar Now!Beyond The Carceral RegimeSex offender registries are yet another part of the carceral regime. But is this criticism unsubstantiated without detailing alternatives? [Download Link] This statement is part of many abolition statements published by the journal, Abolition: A Journal of Insurgent Politics. Read the original post here. Transcript: “Notes Against & Beyond Our Carceral Regime: Erica Meiners on Abolition,” a statement published… Continue reading Beyond The Carceral Regime
2016-05-2659 min