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So I’ll jump! Unburying the prisoner correspondence of Joseph Beam

Abstract This article revisits the unpublished letters of In the Life editor and black gay community organizer Joseph Beam. The seven-year correspondence between Beam and his prisoner penpal Kenyatta Ombaka Baki, demonstrates the intimacies that can be sustained through textual exchange. I return to the archival remediation of these letters to argue that queer friendship can serve as a tool for prison abolition in challenging the isolating function of prisons. Such friendships are created not through face-to-face connections but through textual production. In complicating the boundaries between inside and outside, queer and straight, lovers and friends, old and new media, these letters offer alternative forms of kinship and connection towards imagining futures without prisons. The materiality of this archive can be remediated further through digital media to continue to undermine the functioning of prisons.