![]() ![]() ![]() Crenshaw sought to use the term to challenge frameworks of oppression that focus on a single determinative cause, like racism, as the source of subordination and inequality. ![]() Laid out in an essay titled, “Demarginalizing the Intersection,” Crenshaw argued that for many people of color, it is the intersection of multiple forms of power and inequality that determine their experiences, opportunities, and life chances. This unit is about intersectionality, a concept coined by the Black feminist intellectual Kimberle Crenshaw in 1989. But we hope it provides opportunities for dialogue, debate, and synthesis in order to sharpen our ideas, strengthen our communities, and build power for those fighting to create a world that is free of criminalization and punishment.Ĭlick below to download the full curriculum and our facilitator guide for reading group hosts or click on any session title to view the curriculum for that session. Within these four categories, we have provided a curriculum that supports two biweekly meetings on the following subthemes: relationships, community care, land, climate justice, class, revolution, nation, and state.Īs Wilson Gilmore points out, abolition is not a “recitation of rules” but rather “life in rehearsal.” We do not presume that this curriculum is either comprehensive or representative of all elements or struggles within abolition. Study and Struggle provides a bilingual curriculum to all our imprisoned comrades in Mississippi with the support of our friends at 1977 Books and makes it fully available online for other study groups to use as they see fit. It has to be green, and in order to be green, it has to be red (anti-capitalist), and in order to be red, it has to be international.”įor our Fall 2021 curriculum, we have borrowed and augmented this framework, having added “ intersectional” as a fourth analytical category that we hope moves us beyond “single-issue” organizing. There, in a keynote conversation ( transcript here) with Mariame Kaba and James Kilgore, abolitionist geographer Ruth Wilson Gilmore argued that “abolition is about presence, not absence. When your hands hit the ground, your wrists and arms absorb most of the impact and the elbows bend to reduce the force.Study and Struggle emerged from the 2019 Making and Unmaking Mass Incarceration conference in Oxford, Mississippi. Why should we be able to lift our own body weight? Think about it this way: what happens if you fall? When people fall forward, they instinctively reach out to catch themselves-and land in a move that mimics the push-up. Push-ups require us to use several different muscle groups and to lift our own body weight. We are a nation obsessed with cardiovascular exercise-but in our quest to run farther and faster, we might be neglecting some of the most tried-and-true exercises, like the push-up.įace it-push-ups are hard. No wonder they’re so challenging! If you want to be strong and fit, make the push-up a part of your daily regimen. The total-body exercise engages muscles in the arms, chest, abdomen, hips, and legs. The push-up is the ultimate barometer of fitness. ![]()
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