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Podcast: Pretty Heady Stuff
Episode: El Jones strengthens the bonds of solidarity and fights for the abolition of prisons
Description: El Jones is a poet, journalist, professor and activist living in Halifax, Nova Scotia. She teaches in the department of Political and Canadian Studies at Mount Saint Vincent University. She’s the author of Live from the Afrikan Resistance!, a collection of poems about resisting white colonialism. Her work focuses on feminism, prison abolition, anti-racism and decolonization. In Rehearsals for Living, Robyn Maynard describes El as a “Black liberation visionary and long-time prison abolitionist [who] was nourishing abolitionist freedom dreams for years before the public would listen.”
Since 2016, El has co-hosted a radio show called Black Power Hour on CKDU-FM. We tal...