Essays Against Publishing

Five essays that form a critique of publishing and call for its abolition in order to help bring about the end of prisons, policing, and the settler colonial state. The texts emerged from my own practice as a working writer and from participating in mutual aid and direct action efforts, where it became increasingly clear that an anti-publishing movement is needed to do away with the forms of neoliberal publishing that take place in institutions like the large publishing houses, nonprofits like Poetry Foundation, and even in small presses and independent journals, all of which actively work against the broader movement for racial justice and abolition.