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Reflecting on long-term collaborations with Black political and artistic collectives in Brazil and the U.S., including the World Stage in Leimert Park, Los Angeles, this presentation suggests necessary distinctions between racism and antiblackness. It proposes that in the realm of antiblackness, abolition fulfills Frantz Fanon's maxim that "the real leap consists of introducing invention into existence.