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Abolition May

CLARISSA ROJAS

​Dear abolition
we rise to greet
a landscape etching
of memories
yet to come

of springtime blossoms
poppy fields and daffodils
Life returns
to stolen bodies


May your babies be close to 
you alive
In abolition
Some of us long
ago long
to wipe crocodile tears
on mamas sleeve
May we be free
wipe crocodile tears
Mama
May abolition
Come
Mama
in abolition May you walk
with the flair that freedom springs
in May
abolition
save us

Dear abolition
it is time abolition
give us strength
abolition
turn the tide
abolition


call
on us
abolition
we are yours
abolition
we are free
abolition
now!

May abolition
Come in
May
Abolition
Come
In May
Abolition
Come in
​

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PHOTO: GRACE YOO

Clarissa Rojas is a scholar activist, mother and movement maker. Her mother’s indigenous lineage is from the Arizona/Sonora and her father’s indigenous lineage is from near central México. She immigrated from Mexicali to San Diego as a young person and now teaches Chicanx Studies at UC Davis. Clarissa co-founded several movement spaces including INCITE! She has authored multiple articles and special issues on violence and the transformation of violence, including Community Accountability: Emerging Movements to Transform Violenceand co-edited Color of Violence: the INCITE Anthology. Her writing also appears in Politico, Truthout and the forthcoming Abolition Feminisms: Organizing, Survival and Transformative Practice. Clarissa is an internationally published poet who believes the creative spirit ends violence.
ON WHAT IT MEANS TO BE KALEIDOSCOPED
To be kaleidoscoped means to be seen—against the blinders that deny the full spectrum of our being (read colonial, racial, hetpat, capitalist, etc.)

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