Alysia Harris, Author at Scalawag

A discussion on abolition, crimmigration, and landscapes without prisons with documentary filmmaker Brett Story and North Carolina organizer and sociology professor Felicia Arriaga, from Scalawag's event 'Casting Shadows' for Abolition Week.

Author Archives: Alysia Harris

'Imagine not just the end of prisons, but the end of a society that could have prisons'

Perspectives on incarceration and abolition you should be listening to

This I Know For Sure: Remembrance and freedom in Jaki Shelton Green's The River Speaks of Thirst

Filming the end of a town: Environmental racism and abolition

The South Hollers 'Black Lives Matter'

'Holding hands at the edge of a white silence…' Poetry from Jericho Brown, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, & Taylor Johnson

Rent Strikes & Beyond: Housing strategies that work for the South

Rent Strikes & Beyond: Understanding eviction laws in the South

'Log off / delete your whole life'—Poetry in the time of corona

12 Haikus on gentrification: Bull City edition

The Proof is in the West End: Dance and wellness converge at The Movement Lab

Labor and gift: the paradoxical power of the arts—our all-arts print issue

Kicking up dust: Arts, race, and place converge in Scalawag's pilot artist-in-residence program

I know the culture that produced Kavanaugh: tradition and violence at D.C. prep schools

More than latitude: Ties that bind the Global South

Justice is more than a political issue now—it's a spiritual one