Paula Ioanide is a mother, partner, teacher, scholar, and prison abolition organizer who strives to counter the social and spiritual ills produced by gendered racial capitalism. An assoc. professor of comparative ethnic studies at Ithaca College, Ioanide’s research focuses on the emotional dimensions of racism and the spiritual and social depravity of white domination. Ioanide is the author of The Emotional Politics of Racism: How Feelings Trump Facts in an Era of Colorblindness (Stanford, 2015), and she organizes against mass incarceration and police injustices in upstate New York.