Online Abolitionist Syllabus

with FJAH and SAEDi Collective

At Families for Justice as Healing (FJAH), abolition is an intergenerational practice. And at Solidarity Arts & Education Decolonial initiatives (SAEDi) Collective, anything worth knowing merits being shared in a popular education format. In this collaboration, SAEDi Founder and ACC Postdoctoral Fellow, Melchor Hall, interviewed FJAH Director of Reimagining Communities, Sashi James, to co-create an online abolition syllabus that elaborates six abolitionist principles that guide FJAH’s work. Students in Hall’s Spring 2025 “Gender, Race, and the Carceral State” course at Wellesley tested the activities in the syllabus, and in Summer 2025, FJAH’s Community Shifters taught the syllabus to young girls in Roxbury, MA, who contributed to the living document. SAEDi will also translate the syllabus into Spanish.