Abolition is here

ABSTRACT Prison industrial complex abolition (PIC abolition) is the creative force that propels us to imagine worlds unseen and yet already here. For this project, I constructed a fictional abolitionist world—a world in which prisons and police become unthinkable, and community care is inevitable. Building on the transnational organizing work of scholar-organizers such as Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Kelli Gillespie, and Vanessa Thompson, this work hopes to break open the imaginative limitations of the carceral state and imagine the otherwise possible. What would it look like to take seriously the project of P.I.C. abolition as an already unfolding possibility? “Abolition is Here” hopes to find out.