Since the 2020 George Floyd uprisings, communities across the US openly questioned the liberal claim that police keep us safe. This leads to questions, including: who is protected by police, prisons, and immigration agents; and who is harmed? What does community safety mean in a global pandemic, and what are our responsibilities to each other? These questions are at the heart of abolition geography, which brings together theories and practices that are not (only) about the end of chattel slavery and state violence; but about the promise of liberation. In this class, we will explore abolition geographies – radical place-making to create community well-being that does not rely on harming others. To understand what this means, we’ll engage theories and practices across systems of state-sanctioned violence including prisons, immigration enforcement, family policing and education. In learning how we get free together, we’ll draw on movements for migrant justice, mutual aid and disability justice.