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A summary of Burton’s concept of domestic warfare: The prison is not a failure of justice—it’s a tool of war designed to rupture Black kinship and produce social death.

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The rupturing of intimacy… is a tactic of war and a condition of genocide.”

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The exchange between Absolute and Orisanmi Burton is not merely personal, it's research and resistance writing. Without the possibility of traditional fieldwork, their writing was a powerful way of documenting prison life, emotion, and kinship. This made the letters an ethnography of sorts. And, simultaneously, letter writing within prison, where isolation is the norm, is an exercise of subtle resistance. Through letter, Absolute resists dehumanization, builds connection, and conveys radical education.

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Excerpt from Absolute's letter: “Let me reassure you that I refuse to be broken in mind, body, and spirit.”

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In a system of prisons created to isolate and dehumanize, Absolute and his cellmate Quay chose connection over brutality. Instead of attempting to dominate, Absolute greeted Quay with: "What's good, little bro?" They ate together, eyed each other's territory, and spoke of personal problems. Their week together was an act of quiet resistance, a moment of brotherhood in a system created to annihilate it.

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"what's good, little bro?"

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Surviving through creativity " art, poetry, music)

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Surviving through creativity " art, poetry, music)

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Poetry: Behind bars but not broken,
Our letters are a light, Kinship in chaos, we care as we fight.

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Lastly, food for thought:

Is caring for someone in prison a political act?

What does radical kinship look like in your community?