SPECIAL ISSUE: ABOLITION
Clarissa Rojas /// ABOLITION MAY
Taylor Brough /// ANIMISE & ELEGY FOR GENOCIDE: A POEM IN FOUR PARTS
Christopher Soto /// TO BLOW ON THE HORNS OF A BULL
Musa Turner /// SKYWRITING ON CLUTTERED SIDEWALKS
Maya Beck /// SKETCHES FOR UNSELLABLE YA NOVELS
Steven Beardsley /// IN MYTHIC REALITY X: THERE IS NO POLICE; THERE IS ABOLITION; THERE IS SOLIDARITY
Gabriel Vespertino /// MAYBE THE CRIMINAL IS ME
Taylor Brough /// ANIMISE & ELEGY FOR GENOCIDE: A POEM IN FOUR PARTS
Christopher Soto /// TO BLOW ON THE HORNS OF A BULL
Musa Turner /// SKYWRITING ON CLUTTERED SIDEWALKS
Maya Beck /// SKETCHES FOR UNSELLABLE YA NOVELS
Steven Beardsley /// IN MYTHIC REALITY X: THERE IS NO POLICE; THERE IS ABOLITION; THERE IS SOLIDARITY
Gabriel Vespertino /// MAYBE THE CRIMINAL IS ME
This issue was made in collaboration with the UCSD Cops Off Campus Coalition as part of Abolition May 2022. Abolition May is part of the even more expansive Abolition Spring, a series of actions on campuses across Turtle Island to demand the removal of ALL police and a real investment in the communities universities sit within. Historically and in the present, campus police departments have brutalized students and surveilled and assaulted activists while enforcing racialized campus borders. Colleges and universities, both public and private, have also played a violent and continuous role in global U.S. policing projects. You can learn more about the Cops Off Campus campaign by reading our statement of solidarity or visiting our comrades’ linktree. Despite what administrators tell us, students/staff/faculty know that a campus is not a bubble, but a constellation of relationships: universities employ us, universities criminalize and condemn people whose very lives conflict with their real estate investments, and universities are founded on settler colonialism in Turtle Island and fund imperial violence across the globe.
Click here for more information on the Cops off Campus Coalition & Abolition Spring events, & here for the Cops off Campus Coalition at UC San Diego website & linktree.