Welcome back! This week's article in focus is brought to us by Larissa Kennedy and speaks on how Leah Cowan explores the realities of, and possibilities for, British feminism.

Larissa Kennedy is a writer, movement griot/jali (storyteller), and community organiser from South London with roots in Jamaica, Barbados, and St. Vincent & the Grenadines. She has a BA in Politics, International Studies and Hispanic Studies from the University of Warwick, where her research focused on historicising climate justice in the Anglophone and Hispanophone Caribbean. During her time as an undergraduate, Larissa was formerly President of the National Union of Students, and of Students Organising for Sustainability. She also lived and organised in Buenos Aires, Argentina and Santiago, Chile. For her Master’s degree, Larissa is studying Global Affairs at Tsinghua University in Beijing. In her organising, Larissa has been part of challenging structural injustice, and building collective power at all levels - from the grassroots to the UN. Larissa is founding chair of TALAWA, a Black-led collective of racialised students and young people focused on political education and transformative action at the nexus of Black feminism, climate justice and liberated education. At shado, Larissa is a writer, editor, and co-host of the shado-lite podcast which discusses a number of the world’s biggest global injustices, supporting our community to move from apathy and overwhelm to collective action and hopeful pathways forward.

What can you do?

Read:

• Why Would Feminists Trust the Police? By Leah Cowan
• Abolition. Feminism. Now. by Angela Y. Davis, Gina Dent, Erica Meiners, and Beth Richie
• Become Ungovernable : An Abolition Feminist Ethic for Democratic Living by H.L.T. Quan
• Abolition Revolution by Aviah Sarah Day and Shanice Octavia McBean
• Abolition Feminism is the only solution for the criminalisation of gender-violence survivors by Marcela Onyango
• What is Abolition? By Sara Bafo

Listen:

• shado-lite podcast episode: How do we make ourselves and our community ungovernable? With guest Dr Aviah Sarah Day
• Surviving Society podcast episode 161: Abolition Feminism with Nikki Godden-Rasul, Tina Sikka & Alison Phipps

Get involved:

• Join an Abolitionist Futures reading group
• Find your local Cop Watch

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