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.
Reconsidering Evangelicals and “Tough on Crime” Politics
Religion and Mass Incarceration: New Scholarly Directions
CFP! Workshop: Teaching Theological and Religious Studies Inside Prison Walls
Inside the prison seminary experiment, with Tanya Erzen
Special Journal Issue: The Ethics of State Punishment
Reflections on Ferguson from Laura McTighe
Beyond the Walls: A Conversation on Gender, Race, Religion and Incarceration
Ferguson and Theology: A Special Symposium
Religion and Abolition 