Ardath Whynacht is an activist and writer who works for and with survivors of state and family violence. She's also a professor of sociology at Mount Allison University and the author of a new book called Insurgent Love: Abolition and Domestic Homicide (https://fernwoodpublishing.ca/book/insurgent-love).

The radical, utopian and absolutely necessary prospect of abolition is on people's minds. As ...