WORKING TOWARD A HORIZON OF INTERDEPENDENCE: AN ABOLITIONIST ETHOS FOR YOUTH DEFENDERS

Volume 98, No. 4, Summer 2026

By HyeJi Kim [PDF]

This Essay is written both in honor of the youth defense community and for the youth defense community to offer a widened lens of how our work can fit into a broader strategy of abolition as we continue to evolve as a collective. This Essay is written from the perspective of the Gault Center, marking where we are in our emergent thinking and practice at this moment in time. In this offering, we remember “to keep a wide, long lens about our work. To remember, all of the time, that this moment is not the only moment,” as writer and activist adrienne maree brown teaches in her reflections on author and activist Grace Lee Boggs’s question: “What time is it on the clock of the world?”

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