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Angela Y. Davis is Professor Emerita of History of Consciousness and Feminist Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. An activist, writer, and lecturer, her work focuses on prisons, police, abolition and the intersections of race, gender, and class.
The authors of Abolition. Feminism. Now. discuss why racialized state violence and gender-based violence have to be fought together.
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