Alice May’s thesis analyzes a selection of published and unpublished poems and diary entries of Angelina Weld-Grimké in order to reveal a poet whose words beckon a queer, abolitionist horizon of possibility. Alice traces the circumstances of Grimké’s life and advances close readings of her poetry to show how her disability, Blackness, proximity to whiteness, and sexuality each informed the motifs present in her writing. Alice deftly proposes a novel approach to reading Grimké; one that complements the abolitionist moment developing in radical Black feminist theory and politics today and treats world-building and world-making as central to abolition as a political, ethical, and imaginative project.