Abolitionist Study Group

Abolitionist Study Group is an ongoing collective community building and learning group that discusses the works of Abolitionists, from academics, community organizers, and formally and currently incarcerated Community Members


All are welcome to join study group regardless of identity or how familiar you are with abolition or not. Please share with anyone who think might be interested!

Next Meeting:

April 12th 5:30-7:30pm

Reading:

Queer Behind The Wall

UPCOMING MEETINGS:

Wednesdays: 3/15, 4/12, 4/26, 5/10, 5/24

5:30-7:30PM

The Newburgh Free Library, 124 Grand Street or Zoom

 Learn More About Abolition:

Catch up on the books we’ve read in the last few years:

  • Are Prisons Obselete? -Angela Davis

  • The New Jim Crow -Michelle Alexander

  • Invisible No More- Andrea Ritchie

  • We Will Not Cancel Us -Adrienne Marie Brown

Community Practices

 
 

  • Respect and share pronouns

  • Oxygen check

  • Individually we might know some but together we know a lot!

  • Lean into your growing edge/discomfort

  • Challenge ideas, not people

  • Brave space

  • Speak from your own experience-  “I…”

  • Expect and accept lack of closure

  • Embrace “Both-And” thinking

  • Active participation

 
 

  • Assume best intentions where possible, attend to impact

  • Don't make meaning out of other peoples experiences for them

  • Confidentiality when called for

    • What’s said here stays here, what’s learned here, leave here

  • Bring your whole self to the table

  • Own your learning - ask questions

  • Expect/Accept non-closure