Abolition
b'Leading up to Mayday, the nationwide Day of Refusal, and\\xa0Abolition May, Saronik talks with\\xa0Sean Gordon\\xa0about abolition as an historical movement to end the transatlantic slave trade and a transformative justice movement to abolish prisons and defund the police. The episode focuses on the relationship between absence and presence, destruction and reconstruction, in abolitionist narratives and thought, and makes reference to Angela Davis\\u2019s\\xa0Abolition Democracy: Beyond Empire, Prisons, and Torture\\xa0(2005), Mariame Kaba\\u2019s\\xa0We Do This \\u2018Til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice\\xa0(2021), Tiffany Lethabo King\\u2019s\\xa0The Black Shoals: Offshore Formations of Black and Native Studies\\xa0(2019), and works by W. E. B. Du Bois, Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Frank Wilderson, and Jared Sexton. There is no doubt that abolition will save the world.\\nSean recently finished his PhD in English and American Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. His research and teaching focus on nineteenth-century American literature, abolition, and the environmental humanities.\\nYou can visit the\\xa0We Do This \\u2018Til We Free Us\\xa0publisher\\u2019s website to\\xa0donate copies of the book\\xa0to people who are incarcerated.\\nImage: \\u201cA is for Abolition\\u201d, one in the series titled\\xa0Collidescopes\\xa0by Julia Bernier\\nMusic used in promotional material: \\u201cHeartbeat\\u201d by ykymr\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices\\nSupport our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/law'