Change Everything, Thematic Critique

When scholar-activist Ruth Wilson Gilmore defines
abolition, she says "Abolition requires us to
change one thing, which is everything." This
course will be a laboratory for projects of any
medium that are interested in some form of
social-political change, where we can engage and
deepen them as a part of that "everything" from an
abolitionist perspective of change. From the local
to the global, the large to the small, the
political to the personal, the economic to the
environmental, the prison to the school to the
club, from gender and identity constructs to
definitions of family, property, rights, justice,
nature, freedom and liberation, and things not
listed here, we will spend each week looking at
one another's projects, help to formulate the
research needed to undertake it, and wrestle with
how they speak to one another within an
abolitionist theory of change. All gender identity
and critical race theory is welcome. Students
interested in enrolling in this course will need
to have a project that is either in-progress or
ready to begin working on in order to benefit from
it and contribute to it.