Erica R. Meiners is a Professor of Education and Women's and Gender Studies at Northeastern Illinois University. A writer, organizer, and educator, Meiners is the author For the Children?: Protecting Innocence in a Carceral State, coauthor of The Feminist and the Sex Offender: Confronting Sexual Harm, Ending State Violence, and a coeditor of The Long Term: Resisting Life Sentences, Working Toward Freedom.
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As a politic and a practice, abolition increasingly shapes our political moment—halting the construction of new jails and propelling movements to divest from policing. Yet erased from this landscape are not only the central histories of feminist—usual... SEE MORE