Study and Struggle is a collective concentrated in Mississippi that organizes towards abolition through political education, mutual aid, and community building across prison walls. We believe that study and struggle are necessary, complementary parts of any revolutionary movement, and that dismantling the prison industrial complex (PIC) requires centering criminalized people.
We co-organize several types of collaborations across walls, including radical study groups, pen pal relationships, prisoner-led research projects, webinars, curriculum building, translation, book reviews, and building systems of care.
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A note about translation: Our translation team translates texts, zines, and critical conversations into Spanish, assuring consistency in our work through our internal translation style guidelines. Because Spanish is a gendered language, our team has agreed to approach our work by incorporating gender-neutral language to acknowledge the multiplicity of gender expressions and identities that go beyond the reductionist binaries. We recognize in this linguistic practice, a political space of resistance.