El Jones is a poet, journalist, professor and activist living in Halifax, Nova Scotia. She teaches at Mount Saint Vincent University, where she was named the 15th Nancy's Chair in Women's Studies in 2017. She was Halifax's Poet Laureate from 2013 to 2015. She is the author of Live from the Afrikan Resistance!, a collection of poems about resisting white colonialism. Her work focuses on social justice issues, such as feminism, prison abolition, anti-racism and decolonization. Since 2016, she has co-hosted a radio show called Black Power Hour, on CKDU-FM where listeners from prisons call in to rap and read their poetry, providing a voice to people who rarely get a wide audience.
Abolitionist Intimacies offers an absorbing blend of prose and
poetry that showcases the author's talent for speaking undiluted
truth to power.--Evelyn C. White "Atlantic Books Canada"
Abolitionist Intimacies holds the reader's attention with its
poetry and pace. Jones continues to give voice and embodiment to
the realities of doing, living, and feeling this work.--Ashley
Marshall "Spring Magazine"
Abolitionist Intimacies is an urgently needed text. Drawing from
years of organizing experience, Jones' work as a Black feminist
theorist, activist and scholar skillfully draws attention to the
banal violence of carcerality in Canada and the ongoing work of
freedom-oriented struggle. With rigour, theoretical agility and a
grounded sense of integrity, Jones forwards a poetic vision of
intimacy, care, and human liberation, sketching out abolitionist
futures beyond policing, prisons, and cages.--Robyn Maynard, author
of Policing Black Lives
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