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We Grow the World Together: Parenting Toward Abolition

21 January 2025, 6:00 pm–7:30 pm

We Grow the World Together

The SPRC online book club offers an opportunity to read recent writing about liberation and justice with like-minded people.

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Open to

All

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Yes

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The UCL Sarah Parker Remond Centre for the Study of Racism and Racialisation – The Sarah Parker Remond Centre

The SPRC online book club

An opportunity to read recent writing about liberation and justice with like-minded people.

Opening session – We Grow the World Together, 21 January
6-7:30pmGMT/12-1:30pm CT

Are relations between children and adults ‘political’?

What can abolitionist thought tell us about making families?

If you are interested in these and related questions, please come to the first SPRC online book group on 21st January.

We will be discussing extracts from: We Grow the World Together, Parenting Toward Abolition

Edited by Maya Schenwar and Kim Wilson

Abolition has never been a proposal to simply tear things down. As Alexis Pauline Gumbs asks, “What if abolition is something that grows?” As we struggle to build a liberatory, caring, loving, abundant future, we have much to learn from the work of birthing, raising, caring for, and loving future generations.

In We Grow the World Together, abolitionists and organizers Maya Schenwar and Kim Wilson bring together a remarkable collection of voices revealing the complex tapestry of ways people are living abolition in their daily lives through parenting and caregiving. Ranging from personal narratives to policy-focused analysis to activist chronicles, these writers highlight how abolition is essential to any kind of parenting justice.’

We are delighted to open the session with a conversation with Maya and Kim, facilitated by Gargi Bhattacharyya. All registered participants will be emailed a pdf of book extracts, courtesy of Haymarket Books. We hope that the session will run on a book club format, with open conversation bouncing off ideas from the book. Everyone is welcome.