Author: Laura McTighe
Laura McTighe is an ethnographer, organizer, educator, and mama, who has dedicated her life to weaving liberatory futures and building the connections that make them possible. She has been a part of the US and global movements to end AIDS and abolish prisons for more than twenty-five years, co-founding multiple projects, including TEACH Outside, Prison Health News, Project UNSHACKLE, and the Tallahassee Bail Fund. Now a leading scholar activist in the fields of religion, abolition, and mutual aid, she is an associate professor of religion at Florida State University and the co-founder of Front Porch Research Strategy in New Orleans. She is the author with the Women With A Vision collective of Fire Dreams: Making Black Feminist Liberation in the South published by Duke University Press in 2024. Her next book, Abolition is Sacred Work, explores the spiritual labor of imagining and building the world that must be.
Spirituality and Abolition – Call for Submissions
Mass Incarceration Is Religious (and So Is Abolition): A Provocation
“Theory On The Ground” | at NYU Center for Religion and Media
Prison Pedagogy: Teaching and Learning with Imprisoned Writers
Trust Black Women: God Is Change
Making Time: Religion & Black Prison Organizing, an Interview with Hakim ‘Ali
Tracing the Theo-Logics of Criminalization
Haunted Passages: On Carrying the Past and Envisioning Justice
Religion and Abolition 