Socialism 2025

During the 1970s, activists within and beyond the walls of women’s prisons forged a radical politics against gender violence and a growing police and prison state. Emily Thuma, author of All Our Trials (Haymarket Books), will share the strategies, tactics, and ideas that defined this world of feminist activism at the intersection of racial and economic justice, imprisoned and institutionalized people’s rights, and gender and sexual liberation struggles. In the second part of this session, Deana Lewis and Maya Schenwar will join Thuma for a conversation about abolition feminist and transformative justice organizing in this lineage today. Moderated by Erica Meiners.