Abstracts
Abstract
In the wake of her uncle’s 2021 death from COVID-19 in a Michigan prison, Danielle Purifoy reflects on what his life and art taught her about abolition, and what kind of place could have given him a different life…and death.
Keywords:
- abolition,
- incarceration,
- imagination,
- speculative fiction,
- art
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Appendices
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