Gracie Mae Bradley
Writer, policy expert and campaigner
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Thinking & Writing

Gracie has written extensively on civil liberties, migration and state power over the last decade. She has been published by Verso, Pluto Press and Haymarket Books, with bylines for short-form critical writing across The Guardian, The Independent, OpenDemocracy and more. Following the publication of Against Borders, her writing practice has expanded to include poetry and fiction, and she is currently writing a novel in fulfilment of her Doctorate in Fine Art in Creative Writing.

Books

Against Borders: The case for Abolition cover image

Against Borders

Co-authored with Dr Luke de Noronha

Verso Books, 2022

Buy at Verso Books
"A book that invites us to dream of a reconfigured world where the borders between nation states no longer control and define us. "
Stella Dadzie - author of 'A Kick in the Belly'
"Against Borders demonstrates the clarifying power of applying abolitionist politics to the issue of borders. In doing so, it achieves a rare unity of theory and practice, combining profound analysis with pointers to radical action. "
Arun Kundnani - author of 'What is anti-racism? And why it means anti-capitalism'

Essays & Interviews

Afterword

Border Abolition Now Pluto Press, 2024

The UK's Production of Tech-Enabled Precarity: An Interview with Gracie Mae Bradley

Resisting Borders and Technologies of Violence Haymarket Books, 2024

‘From Grenfell to Windrush’

After Grenfell: Violence, Resistance and Response Pluto Press, 2019
After Grenfell: Violence, Resistance and Response cover image

Anti-Racism in the Courtroom? Reflections on Strategic Litigation and Policy-Making

Wildcat Dispatches 2017

‘A Portrait of the Colonised: Europe in 2014’

EURO TRASH Merve Verlag, 2014

Podcast Hosting

Locating Legacies. Featuring Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Vijay Prashad, Françoise Vergès, Sita Balani, Kojo Koram, and Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò

Stuart Hall Foundation, 2022-2023

Short Stories

‘Peacetime’

Salvage Magazine Issue 13 Autumn/Winter 2022

Poetry

‘Unlawful Gathering’

When This Is Over: Reflections on an Unequal Pandemic Policy Press, 2023

Short Form Critical Writing

Red Pepper Magazine, 2025

Book review: We Grow the World Together: Parenting Toward Abolition, edited by Maya Schenwar and Kim Wilson

Verso Books, 2023

On the Small Boats Bill

The Guardian, 2022

Here’s why a border-free world would be better than hostile immigration policies

The Guardian, 2021

After this week, it's clearer than ever that civil rights matter to all of us

Verso Blogs, 2020

End deportation flights!: resisting the new authoritarianism

The Guardian, 2020

Can people of colour trust the UK's Covid-19 laws with the police's track record?

gal-dem, 2020

People worrying more about pets than prisoners in a pandemic is peak white supremacy

The Guardian, 2020

The UK's online ID plans: expensive, intrusive, unnecessary

The Guardian, 2020

How the British government is trying to crush our right to protest

Vice, 2019

After Windrush, the Government Still Wants Your Trust on Migration

The Independent, 2019

The brutal truth of Windrush is that one year on, the ‘hostile environment’ is more entrenched than ever

The Guardian, 2019

A Prevent-style plan for knife crime is not just misguided, it's dangerous

Vice, 2019

Stripping Shamima Begum of her citizenship is racist and dangerous

OpenDemocracy, 2019

From Grenfell to Windrush, state racism kills - sometimes quickly, sometimes slowly

Vice, 2019

The 39 Migrant Deaths in Essex Are Proof that Borders Kill

Verso Blogs, 2018

A Logic of Dehumanisation

Vice, 2018

The Windrush Scandal Shows Why the 'Hostile Environment' for Migrants Must End

OpenDemocracy, 2018

Solidarity with migrants isn't 'terrorism' - the Stansted 15 case shames the UK

Verso Blogs, 2017

Human Rights After the Election: Theresa May, the DUP, and the Good Friday Agreement

The Guardian, 2017

How Charities Helped to Deport Homeless Migrants

The Guardian, 2017

It Shouldn’t Take An Airport Blockade to Stop Mass Deportations

Verso Blogs, 2016

Juridified Dispossession: Brexit, Migrant Workers and The Law

The Guardian, 2016

Don’t Help the State Bully Migrants - Boycott the School Census

Gracie Mae Bradley is a thinker, writer and campaigner concerned with what it means for people to live flourishing lives. She is particularly interested in civil liberties, state power, Black feminism, and abolition, and is currently working on a novel. 
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