ABOUT THIS PODCAST 🔗
Abolition X is the podcast that brings abolition to the culture. Hosts Vic Mensa, Indigo Mateo and Richie Reseda discuss how abolition isn't just about dismantling the prison industrial complex, but that it's also about imagining a world based on community, accountability and healing. In every episode, incarcerated people, organizers and artists address how abolition intersects with different aspects of culture — from housing to hip hop — and leave us with a new vision of how we can treat ourselves and each other outside of revenge and punishment.
Update frequency:
weekly
Average audio length:
65 minutes
English
United States
13 episodes
since Feb. 1, 2022
episodic
explicit content
IN THIS PODCAST 🔗
LATEST EPISODE 🔗
Unprocessed grief can damage our mental, emotional and physical health. It can lead to harmful decision-making and contribute to cycles of trauma and violence. How could creating spaces to process grief help build healthier, safer communities? We talk to Mustafa, a singer, songwriter and poet whose…
PREVIOUS EPISODES 🔗
#ProtectBlackWomen became a rallying cry after police killed Breonna Taylor. Black women are also the fastest-growing population of incarcerated people and suffer high rates of abuse. In this episode, we talk to half of the platinum rap duo City Girls, the amazing rapper JT, who spent two years in …
Even some who believe in abolition struggle with the idea of addressing domestic abuse without locking people up. Learn how to stop domestic violence without prisons from lawyer and professor Leigh Goodmark, author of Decriminalizing Domestic Violence. We also hear from Floyd, an incarcerated survi…
Forgiveness heals. But is it required for abolition? Dive into how forgiveness offers a sense of justice for some but not others, with JJ’88, an incarcerated musician and organizer with a unique relationship to forgiveness.
Check out our episode notes below for links to resources and some of the …
Many of our people support police because they are unaware of other options to keep them safe from street violence. But violence intervention programs led by former gang members have shown to be more effective all over the country. Dr. Ameena Matthews, violence interrupter and congressional candida…
The gender system was established by the same colonizers who brought us mass incarceration. The criminal legal system targets trans and nonbinary people at high rates. We talk to Dominique Morgan, the formerly incarcerated director of Black and Pink and the Okra Project, as well as Ms. Kelli, an o…
The criminal legal system often fails and antagonizes survivors of sexual violence, but what should exist in its place? We explore this issue with dream hampton, organizer, filmmaker and executive producer of Surviving R. Kelly, and with Laura, an incarcerated survivor serving 50 years to life for …
The carceral system locks families into cycles of trauma. Peak into the worlds of these resilient families with Larry Hoover Jr., whom we talked to the day after the Kanye and Drake concert to free his father, legendary Chicago gang leader turned peace advocate Larry Hoover, and with Jaki, an incar…
We are taught that tech conquers human bias. But it actually can just mechanize the biases of the people who program it. As the punishment industry relies more on tech, how will it affect our communities? We go in with Dr. Safiya Noble, MacArthur Genius Grant winner, tech abolitionist and author of…
The entertainment industry is the biggest propaganda machine on earth. The punishment industry uses this to its advantage. We talk to the homie Kendrick Sampson, an actor making abolitionist media and working to get police off of studio sets. We also talk to Dre, an incarcerated filmmaker creating …
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