A PENAL COLONY. ADMINISTRATIVE DETENTION. PLANTATION LABOR. ENSLAVEMENT. SETTLER COLONIALISM. GENOCIDAL LEGACIES. OCCUPATION. ETHNO-NATIONALISM. MASS INCARCERATION. SURVEILLANCE. APARTHEID. MILITARIZED POLICE. PERPETUAL PUNISHMENT…
Once a year, Scalawag devotes our platform to a week of first-hand stories from formerly and currently incarcerated writers, as well as systems-impacted folks committed to Abolition in theory and practice.
With Empire Must Die, writers explore how the combined forces of Western imperialism and plantation legacies produce carceral logics globally—conditions that fuel genocidal arrangements in the US South, Palestine, and other parts of the world.
