This article emancipates penal abolitionist theorising from whiteness by centring Black political womanhood. It cross-reads three narratives of borderless resistance, considering Claudia Jones, La Mulâtresse Solitude, and Stella Nyanzi as figures who fight and collectivise before, during and after incarceration. As coloniality remains present for the three, the author endeavours to connect their struggles in and for the present and frame their resistance using Black, African, and anticarceral feminist literature.