Abolition is not absence, it is presence. What the world will become already exists in fragments and pieces, experiments and possibilities. So those who feel in their gut deep anxiety that abolition means knock it all down, scorch the earth and start something new, let that go. Abolition is building the future from the present, in all of the ways we can.
— Ruth Wilson Gilmore
“Making Abolition Geography in California’s Central Valley”
The Funambulist, 2018
“XO & Struggle II” is neither lament nor call for demolition. It’s a call to action, to creation—for presence, experimentation, abundance, care, and building anew. It’s the invocation of a political project at times mournful and destructive, and yet endlessly invigorated by the preciousness and creativity of human life.
Featuring work by: Saeedah Cook, Kelly Gallagher, Cameron A. Granger, Christopher Harris, Alex Johnston, and Matazi Weathers.