Introduction
Rivka Eckert
SECTION I: Prison Industrial Complex/Capitalism
1. Interlude 1
2. Holding Ourselves Accountable and Holding Out for the Horizon: Facilitating the Arts in Prisons
Julie Rada
3.Redefining Stereotypes: Abolitionist Theatre and Correctional Officers
Rivka Eckert
4. Staging Student Resistance: A Case Study in Campus Abolitionist Theatre
Misty Saribal
5. Amplifying Undocumented Stories: On Resisting the “Crimmigration” Regime at Albany Park Theater Project
Devika Ranjan
6. Reflections on Section I
SECTION II: No Reforms
7. Interlude 2
8. Radical Values in Reflection: Navigating Arts and Abolition with Incarcerated Youth
Julie Rada and Maya Osterman-Van Grack
9. Abolition in Prisons and Teacher Education through Theatre of the Oppressed: A Conversation between Practitioners and Participants
Rachael Rhoades and Lori Pitts
10. Disrupting Hierarchies: Theatre for Social Change as Rehearsal for Liberation in Secondary Education
Aubrey Helene Neumann
11. Reflection on Section II
Section III: Building Community
12. Interlude 3
13. The Takers’ Tower Will Fall: Epic Lessons in Co-Creation
Mariana Green and Alyssa Vera Ramos
14. Impact: A Conversation among Katherine Nigh, Robert Villanueva, and Brandon de Santiago
Katherine Nigh
15. Creating a Supernova
Elizabeth Hawes
16. The Power of Difference: Solidarity on the Path
Sarah K. Chalmers
17. Reflections on Section III
Section IV: Interconnection/Future Dreaming
18. Interlude 4
19. Spiritual Gifts for Changing Times/Paradigms
Tyrell Blacquemoss
20. Gaining Freedom and Healing Through Theatre
Lynn Baker-Nauman, MA, LMFT, RDT and Spoon Jackson
21. A Play Is a Vehicle to Incite: An Interview with Playwright Erika Dickerson-Despenza
Nicholas Fesette
22. A Queer Jail-Time: Disclosure Art and Transformative Justice in Los Angeles Men’s Central Jail
Joey Martinez
23. Reflection on Section IV