Rehearsing Justices: Abolitionist Perspectives Rooted in Communities
by Sobre Justiças Collective
This book is an abolitionist rehearsal — a trace of different emancipatory paths explored collectively. It emerges from a process of investigAction driven by rage, desire, and hope — through Theatre of the Oppressed, graphic experiments, and deep listening — seeking not ready-made answers, but good questions and inspiring practices. What is justice? What are we truly seeking when we pursue it? And what kind of justice do we want to build together?
It was created by people and collectives who live the consequences of structural injustice and, nevertheless, invent practices of resistance, protection, and healing. For this reason, the work gathers essays and diverse experiences that, by touching one another, nourish worlds where justice moves toward what Ruth Wilson Gilmore understands as liberation: abolition is emancipation in the making. We do not want a single justice — we want many. We do not want the justice imposed by imperialism, colonialism, racism, and capitalism; we want processes that sustain and expand life.
