5 Years of Interrupting Criminalization: Quilting Black Feminist Resistance

We cannot get to futures free of violence of all kinds without confronting and challenging criminalization through ideology, laws, policies, practices, and what Black feminists call “controlling narratives” — stories that shape how we see, understand, and act in relation to each other. 

Challenging, interrupting, and building a world beyond criminalization, one that is rooted in transformative justice, is the unifying thread of IC’s work — and of the infrastructure and resources we are creating to support organizers on the ground across the country. IC is a collective project, which is a reflection of our Black abolitionist feminist values. The only way that we will uproot criminalization is together. We are proud of what Interrupting Criminalization has accomplished over the past five years. We hope you will join us in growing our intersectional, cross-movement work deeply rooted in Black feminist visions of abolition for the next five years! 

Explore a summary of Interrupting Criminalization’s first five years of work.