Jess Zhang

Jess is a writer and researcher based in Brooklyn, NY.

3 posts
Two individuals walk through the city carrying a banner that reads, "Chinatown is a site of resistance."
Crime, Reform & Abolition

‘It’s about stamina and the belief that we will win’: Chinatown abolitionist groups fight to end jails in NYC 

Organizers with Chinatown Art Brigade and Wing on Wo Project spoke to Prism about why the city’s plan to replace Rikers Island with four borough-based jails is a dangerous continuation of the carceral system.

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11 Min
By: Jess Zhang
color photograph of a demolished street in Gaza. United Nations medics load a Palestinian man into a van.
Immigration

‘The goal is to eliminate Gaza’

In a Q&A with Prism, Zoé Samudzi discusses U.S. and Israeli settler colonialism, the politics of genocide recognition, and the logic of collective punishment

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14 Min
By: Jess Zhang
color photograph of two art pieces on the white wall of an exhibition space. in the top left corner, the prism logo is overla
Crime, Reform & Abolition

Prison as censorship: Exhibition curated by Mariame Kaba serves as an abolitionist call to action

“Because prisons are not just someplace else, somewhere else … They are our communities”

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9 Min
By: Jess Zhang

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