Rosie Stockton’s research focuses on abolitionist feminisms, Black feminist thought, and queer and trans critique to think with political and aesthetic practices of anti-carceral resistance. They look specifically at the political economy of the California carceral state, focusing on long term sentencing, the criminalization of social reproduction, and queer abolitionist practices of care, kinship, and mutual aid. They are an organizer with the California Coalition for Women Prisoners (CCWP) and the director of the Creative Writing Stream of the UC Sentencing Project, where they facilitate a poetry workshop at the California Institution for Women. They are also a poet and the author of Permanent Volta (Nightboat Books 2021) and Fuel (Nightboat Books 2025). Research Interests: Abolitionist Feminisms, Black Feminist Thought, and Queer and Trans Critique, Political Economy, Marxist and Materialist Inquiry, Poetry and Queer Social Movements, Critical Theory.