For our final episode, we’re joined by prison abolitionists Comrade BIM, from the Vaughn 17, and Fariha and Bee, organizers with DCIWOC, DC Incarcerated Workers Organizing Coalition. BIM is a member of the Vaughn 17, a group of 17 activists charged in the 2017 prison uprising inside the James T. Vaughn Correctional Center. They share about abolitionist ethics of care, showing up as co-conspirators, rupture in community, and moving in accountability. Laquesha Sanders closes our series with her final segment on mental health and student debt, sharing how she freed herself from six-figure debt. Canadian-Ugandan poet and culture worker, Elizabeth Mudenyo, author of the poetry chapbook With Both Hands, shares her poem “Nothing Owed”. We offer you these questions: What are lessons prison abolitionists teach us in school abolition? How do we move beyond allyship and sit in co-conspiracy? What does it mean to center accountability as liberatory praxis? What do we own when we’re called in or out? Send your thoughts to us at [email protected] or slide into our DMs on IG @dancingondesks.

Transcript (Finalized Friday, July 7, 2023)

INTELLECTUAL INHERITANCE

• Elizabeth Mudenyo’s website
• Rebellious Hearts, Dwayne Staats
• We Do This Til We Free Us, Mariame Kaba
• We Will Not Cancel Us, adrienne maree brown 
• Brick by Brick: How We Build a World Without Prisons, Cradle Community 

Learn more + be in solidarity with DCIWOC

• Instagram: @dciwoc
• Facebook: DC IWOC
• Email: [email protected]
• Patreon: patreon.com/dciwoc
• Venmo: @dciwoc
• Ca$hApp: $dmviwoc

MUSIC

• “Hey You”, Qué Soul 
• Yogic Beats: “Body and Soul;” “Meditate;” “Mangos” 
• Dancing on Desks theme song composed and arranged by Mara Johson and Elliott Wilkes 

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