S1 Ep7: How do we make ourselves and our community ungovernable?

We know that many feminisms do not truly resist oppression in all its forms [insert TERFs and boss babes here] Another group of feminists flopping on the ‘radical reimagination’ front are carceral feminists.

Our guest this time, abolitionist revolutionary, author and lecturer Dr Aviah Sarah Day, describes the term carceral feminism as “a critique about a particular branch of the feminist movement”. With Aviah’s knowledge and experience in the movement, we get into why investing in policing and punitive responses to gendered violence will not save us!

Somehow the tech failed us on the recording of this episode (boo, hiss!) so we lost the second half of our chat with Aviah. Co-hosts Zoe and Larissa have wrapped up the chat by reflecting on some of the parts of the conversation that we lost.

In the episode, we discuss some examples of gendered and sexual violence, including r*pe, so if you’d like to skip that part of the conversation, hit pause at 32:14 and resume at 32:44. Masses of love and solidarity to any survivors listening.

Resources:

• Dr Aviah Sarah Day (2022) Why police will never be the answer to gendered violence
• Aviah Sarah Day and Shanice Octavia McBean (2022) Abolition Revolution
• Ruth Wilson Gilmore (2022) Abolition Geography: Essays Towards Liberation
• Mariame Kaba (2022) We Do This 'Til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice
• Oonagh Ryder and Mo Mansfield (2018) “Just Paint the Walls Pink”: Gender, Prison and Carceral Feminism

Actions:

• Find your local CopWatch group
• Use Abolitionist Futures’ Framework differentiating between reformist reforms and abolitionist steps in UK policing

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