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Item All Mutual Aid is Speculative Fiction: Critical Fabulation and its Role in Achieving Abolition(2021) Alvarez, Adaylin; Rivera-Dundas, AdenaThrough the practice of critical fabulation, authors of speculative fiction can practice mutual aid with the goal of achieving abolition. Critical fabulation within speculative fiction allows authors to use their imagine to create worlds free of prisons, war, and capitalism. Both critical fabulation and speculative fiction, in practicing mutual aid, then become tools that work within the confines of and against the white supremacist, colonial archive, the prison industrial complex, and the non-profit industrial complex—those tools help authors and readers imagine a world of abolition. Through a literary analysis of Toni Morrison’s Beloved and Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower, this paper aims to find instances of mutual aid within those works of speculative fiction in order to prove that all mutual aid is speculative fiction. The combination of Adaylin’s personal experiences in practicing mutual aid and her literary analysis of works of speculative fiction then allows her to describe her process in applying both to write her own speculative fiction story.Item Introduction to Imprisoned Intellectuals(Rowman & Littlefield, 2003) James, JoyItem Introduction to The Angela Y. Davis Reader(Blackwell Publishers, 1998) James, JoyFor three decades, Angela Y. Davis has written on feminism, anti-racism, political philosophy, and liberation theory. Her analyses of culture, gender, capital, and race have profoundly influenced political and social thought, and contemporary struggles. The Angela Y. Davis reader presents interviews, essays, and excerpts from Davis's most important works, including her memoir, in four parts - Prisons, Repression, and Resistance; Marxism, Anti-Racism, and Feminism; Aesthetics and Culture; and Interviews - Davis examines progressive politics and intellectualism. The extensive introduction by Joy James both provides biographical background and contextualizes the intellectual development of Davis as one of the leading thinkers of our time.Item The Testing Industrial Complex: Texas and Beyond(Texas Education Review, 2021) Del Carmen Unda, María; Lizárraga-Dueñas, LizethThe Testing Industrial Complex (TIC) is a system (and at the same time a cycle) in which high-stakes standardized testing fuels neoliberal education reforms and vice versa. These “reforms” and cycles have monetized for profit the public education system in which curriculum, students, and teachers have been packaged and sold for corporate profit. The Prison Industrial Complex (PIC) is a system in which inmates, which are disproportionately Black, Indigenous, people of color (BIPOC), are packaged then sold to private corporations for profit. This policy brief examines two systems, the Testing Industrial Complex and the Prison Industrial Complex and how they directly impact students in the state of Texas and the U.S. In detail below, two alternatives are particularly worthy of consideration: a) multiple measures accountability; and b) evidence-based interventions. We close with policy recommendations for state-level policy makers and school leaders.