Insurgent Love: Abolition and Domestic Homicide

“As a Black feminist organizing against gender-based violence, this book is of profound importance because it argues for an alternate path to eradicating domestic homicide and violence. Carceral feminism has failed us; the police can?t protect us. As an abolitionist committed to ending all forms of violence, as a survivor of domestic and family violence, how do we move towards transformative approaches that center healing for ALL our communities? This book is an opportunity to start engaging in these important conversations.”

Marlihan Lopez, co-vice-president for la Fédération des femmes du Québec and program and outreach co-ordinator at the Simone de Beauvoir Institute.

“What is most significant about this book is the author?s engagement with intimate violence and abolition. Generally, there is a tendency in the field of abolition to glaze over intimate and other personal violences or to focus almost exclusively on state violence at the expense of the other. Establishing links between state and intimate violence is an important framework for abolitionist and anti-violence work as a way to engage these kinds of brutalizing hardships, and without drawing on ongoing carceral legacies and colonial logics.”

Vicki Chartrand, associate professor and director of Centre for Justice Exchange