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Mariame Kaba is an organizer, educator and curator who is active
in movements for racial, gender, and transformative justice. She is
the founder and director of Project NIA, a grassroots organization
with a vision to end youth incarceration. Mariame is currently a
researcher at Interrupting Criminalization: Research in Action at
the Barnard Center for Research on Women, a project she co-founded
with Andrea Ritchie in 2018.
Mariame has co-founded multiple other organizations and projects
over the years including We Charge Genocide, the Chicago Freedom
School, the Chicago Taskforce on Violence against Girls and Young
Women, Love & Protect, the Just Practice Collaborative and Survived
& Punished.
about the impacts of incarceration on children and families.
“I want to say this is a "generation-defining" book, but that feels
wrong because I know it will be shaping political imaginations for
a century or more. It's generations-defining. This is a classic in
the vein of Sister Outsider, a book that will spark countless
radical imaginations.” — Eve Ewing, author, 1919
"Mariame Kaba is a people's historian, an ultra-practical problem
solver, and a visionary prophet whose work dreams and builds a
world made by collaboration and healing where putting people in
cages is unimaginable. We Do This 'Til We Free Us is packed with
Kaba's brilliant insights and detailed examples of how the work of
abolition is put into practice in grassroots campaigns. Kaba's
boundless creativity is rooted in her rigorous study of resistance
and inspiration, and the wisdom of her words is woven through with
poetry, literature, history and music, so that her offerings are
both grounded in practical discernment and inclined toward our most
robust imagination of what freedom could mean. This book will be
both a practical tool and a source of comfort in hard times for
change-makers and world-builders."— Dean Spade, author, Mutual Aid:
Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next)
"We Do This ’Til We Free Us is a beacon, a watch fire, a guidepost
for all of us who are seeking transformational and life-giving
change in a death-dealing society, Mariame Kaba is a force of
nature, unafraid to step into great storms of violence. As this
long-awaited collection of abolitionist essays, interviews, and
conversations demonstrates, Kaba knows that relationships are at
the center of everything; that new possibilities and insights arise
from the organized efforts of ordinary people; that only collective
endeavor can move us forward. This isn’t simply a book. It’s a
portal." — Kay Whitlock, co-author Queer (In)Justice: The
Criminalization of LGBT People in the United States
“Mariame Kaba’s We Do This ‘Til We Free Us exudes her brilliance as
an organizer, educator, and visionary. A primer in abolition as an
organizing vision, strategy and practice, this collection of essays
is rooted in a structural analysis of policing, incarceration, and
surveillance while uplifting collective strategies, actions, and
practices that lend themselves toward ending these systems. The
collection shares some of the amazing abolitionist projects that
she’s initiated, organized, and nurtured, and is a testament to the
power of collectivity and community.”— Ann Russo, author,Feminist
Accountability: Disrupting Violence and Transforming Power
“We Do This Until We Free Us outlines an approach to transformative
politics that we have been hungry for: brilliant strategies that
are at once practical and prophetic. For decades, Mariame Kaba’s
pathbreaking leadership has steered us towards a horizon of radical
freedom that, as she has repeatedly demonstrated, is within our
reach. This remarkable collection is a powerful map for anyone who
longs for a future built on safety, community, and joy, and an
intellectual home for those who are creating new pathways to get us
there.”— Alisa Bierria, co-founder and co-organizer, Survived and
Punished
“Mariame Kaba's living example continuously teaches me that
accountability and abolition are daily internal and external
practices. We Do This Till We Free Us is both timely and timeless.
This compelling collection is an offering of Kaba's thoughtful
experiential perspectives and insights about the strenuous,
compassionate, and rewarding work to not harm in response to
witnessing and/or experiencing harm. Kaba's words are a sacred
roadmap for an embodied praxis that invites all of us to imagine,
envision, and work collectively to co-create a society without
violence.” — Aishah Shahidah Simmons, creator, NO! The Rape
Documentary and author, Love WITH Accountability
“We Do This Till We Free Us has so much wisdom to offer,
particularly at this unprecedented moment. Kaba not only challenges
the corrosive notions that only policing and prisons keep us safe,
but invites us to see abolition not as a far-away goal, but an
everyday adventure that we can embark upon in our daily lives.
Mariame Kaba is a galactic treasure. Her passion, dedication and
commitment to abolition, safety and accountability are
unparalleled. Read this book."— Victoria Law, author, Prison by Any
Other Name
“Mariame Kaba is one of the foremost grassroots intellectuals of
our time. She is a strategic, brilliant and practical genius whose
intellectual and on the ground work is foundational to the past
twenty years of transformative justice and abolitionist theory and
practice. She's someone whose work I urge anyone to read who's
curious about exactly why and how we are going to dismantle prisons
and build the different future we need. I am so happy to have this
book in the world, collecting so many of my favorite pieces, to
give to new and old comrades alike.”— Leah Lakshmi
Piepzna-Samarasinha, author, Care Work: Dreaming Disability
Justice
"The miracle is Mariame's collaborative, accountable,
future-facing, legacy bearing presence in our movements and her
intentional practice of evaluating how she can contribute to our
collective future. This book, which documents some of Kaba's most
important interventions, crucial conversations and paradigm
shifting ideas makes this ongoing miracle shareable, teachable, and
available for study in community. We Do This 'Til We Free Us is a
necessary offering towards the possibility of our intentional
participation in the actions that will create a more loving and
live-able world. Read this book, hold this archive, share this
journey, to nurture your own presence, practice and collaborations
towards the freedom we already deserve." — Alexis Pauline
Gumbs, author, Dub: Finding Ceremony
“Beautiful and timely, We Do This 'Til We Free Us is more than a
book. It is a gathering: a conversation, a coming together, a call
to be not only our best selves but together in struggle. It is a
how-to gift for all who believe in freedom from violence. In a wide
ranging series of essays, interviews, and speeches, inveterate
organizer Mariame Kaba shares strategic wisdom from the
abolitionist frontlines. Read it, pass it on, and get to work!”—
Dan Berger, author, Rethinking the American Prison Movement
“This collection of writings embodies Mariame’s gifts to the
abolitionist movement, not only in content but in format. As
readers, we are invited into the conversations Mariame has been
having for decades as she lifts up countless stories that belong to
the larger movement of which she is an essential leader. We are
offered Mariame’s personal writing and also collaborative writing
that highlights a central message running throughout the book; we
will not achieve liberation alone. While there are no blueprints
for abolition, this text is a guiding light that offers crucial
answers and an expansive invitation for all to join in the
work.”
— Rev. Jason Lydon, Second Unitarian Church of Chicago
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