All Our Trials/Mississippi Five Reading Groups
In coordination with the release of of the 2024 Haymarket Books edition of Emily Thuma’s All Our Trials: Prisons, Policing, and the Feminist Fight to End Violence, the Committee to Free the Mississippi Five has collaborated with Emily to create a study guide to support reading groups in exploring the connections between this vital history of anticarceral feminist organizing in the 1970s and 1980s and current support and solidarity efforts for criminalized survivors and imprisoned women such as the Mississippi Five.

We encourage friends, comrades, collectives, students, and organizations to form in-person or virtual study groups and join us in February–June 2025 as we study histories of grassroots feminist struggles against imprisonment and apply their lessons today.

If you are interested in participating, please fill out the form below.

Study & Struggle will provide:

  • Books: Free copies of the book to the first 50 participants in in-person reading groups (books will be mailed in batches to group hosts). (Free copies are already available to people inside via Haymarket’s Books Not Bars program.) Everyone will get a discount code for purchasing the book through Haymarket’s website.

  • Digital Study Guide: The guide includes discussion questions as well as links to supplemental primary sources and reading materials from the Campaign to Free the Mississippi Five.

  • Virtual Launch Event: Come hear Emily Thuma and Romarilyn Ralston of the California Coalition for Women Prisoners in conversation about the book and the broader theme of abolition feminist organizing across prison walls. February 2 at 6pm–7:30pm ET. All are welcome, even if you haven’t committed to joining a reading group! (Register for zoom link here)

  • Virtual Closing Event: A chance for reading group participants to connect and reflect! Hosted by author and activist Dean Spade. Sunday, June 1 at 6pm–7pm ET.

  • Artwork: In-person reading group hosts will also be mailed a set of hand-painted paper flowers by Corey Devon Arthur to distribute to their groups. Arthur is imprisoned in New York and created the flowers specially for this project in his current role as the Mississippi Five Art Fellow. He envisioned groups fundraising for the Free the Five campaign and offering the flowers as gratitude to donors. Arthur also encourages groups to find other creative ways to use the flowers.

We hope this structure will offer an opportunity to form and deepen organizing relationships, study and learn together, and build upon these histories of feminist anti-prison struggles.

In solidarity,

Study and Struggle and the Committee to Free the Five

https://www.studyandstruggle.com/ms5

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