We Grow the World Together: Parenting Toward Abolition

A vital anthology exploring the intersections between caregiving and abolition

Abolition has never been a proposal to simply tear things down. As Alexis Pauline Gumbs asks, "What if abolition is something that grows?" As we struggle to build a liberatory, caring, loving, abundant future, we have much to learn from the work of birthing, raising, caring for, and loving future generations.

In We Grow the World Together, abolitionists and organizers Maya Schenwar and Kim Wilson bring together a remarkable collection of voices revealing the complex tapestry of ways people are living abolition in their daily lives through parenting and caregiving. Ranging from personal narratives to policy-focused analysis to activist chronicles, these writers highlight how abolition is essential to any kind of parenting justice.

Contributors include:
Beth Richie
Harsha Walia
EJ, 6 years old
Dorothy Roberts
Ruth Wilson Gilmore
Dylan Rodr?guez
Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn
Shira Hassan
Victoria Law
Mariame Kaba
The PDX Childcare Collective
adrienne maree brown and Autumn Brown
and more

Author: Maya Schenwar
Publisher: Haymarket Books
Published: 11/19/2024
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.88lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9798888902554


Review Citation(s):
Booklist 11/01/2024 pg. 11

About the Author

Maya Schenwar is director of the Truthout Center for Grassroots Journalism and board president at Truthout. She is the co-author (with Victoria Law) of Prison by Any Other Name: The Harmful Consequences of Popular Reforms and the author of Locked Down, Locked Out: Why Prison Doesn't Work and How We Can Do Better. Schenwar has written for The New York Times, The Guardian, The Nation, among others. Schenwar is a cofounder of the Chicago Community Bond Fund and organizes with the Love & Protect collective. She lives in Chicago with her partner, child, and abolitionist cat.

Kim Wilson is an artist, educator, writer, and co-host and producer of the Beyond Prisons podcast. Dr. Wilson is one of the recipients of the 2023 Leeway Transformation Award for her commitment to the use of art for social change. Her work has appeared in Mariame Kaba's We Do This 'til We Free Us (2021), Making Abolitionist Worlds: Proposals for a World on Fire (2020), and Abolishing Carceral Society (2018), and in outlets including TruthOut and Shadowproof.