Books Avaliable Online
Ask: Building Consent Culture by ISBN: 9781944934262Publication Date: 2017-09-15 (on order)More than a collection of essays, Ask is a testimony and guide on the role that negated consent plays in our lives, examining how we can take those first steps to reclaim it from institutionalized power.
Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement by ISBN: 9781849353632Publication Date: 2020Transformative justice seeks to solve the problem of violence at the grassroots level, without relying on punishment, incarceration, or policing. Beyond Survival puts these strategies front and center as real alternatives to today’s failed models.
Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice by ISBN: 9781551527383Publication Date: 2018-10-30In their new, long-awaited collection of essays, longtime disability justice activist and performance artist Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha explores the politics and realities of disability justice, a movement that centers the lives and leadership of sick and disabled queer, trans, Black, and brown people, with knowledge and gifts for all.
Defund Fear: Safety Without Policing, Prisons, and Punishment by ISBN: 9780807003022Publication Date: 2021-02-02Community leader and lawyer Zach Norris lays out a radical way to shift the conversation about public safety away from fear and punishment and toward growth and support systems for our families and communities. Defund Fear is a blueprint of how to hold people accountable while still holding them in community.
Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds by ISBN: 9781849352611Publication Date: 2017-03-20In the tradition of Octavia Butler, here is radical self-help, society-help, and planet-help to shape the futures we want.
Feminist Accountability: Disrupting Bias and Transforming Power by Call Number: Lincoln Park Faculty Publications (1st floor) ; 305.42 R969f2019ISBN: 9780814777169Publication Date: 2018-12-04What does it take to build communities to stand up to injustice and create social change? How do we work together to transform, without reproducing, systems of violence and oppression?
Practicing New Worlds: Abolition and Emergent Strategies by Publication Date: 2023-08-31 (not yet published)Practicing New Worlds explores how principles of emergence, adaptation, iteration, resilience, transformation, interdependence, decentralization and fractalization can shape organizing toward a world without the violence of surveillance, police, prisons, jails, or cages of any kind, in which we collectively have everything we need to survive and thrive.
Saving our Own Lives: A Libertory Practice of Harm Reduction by ISBN: 1642598623Publication Date: 2022Saving Our Own Lives, an anthology of essays from long-time organizer Shira Hassan, fills this gap by telling the stories of how sex workers, people of color, queer folks, and trans, gender non-conforming, and two-spirit people are building systems of change and support outside the societal frameworks of oppression and exploitation.
Transforming Communities: How People Like You Are Healing Their Neighborhoods by ISBN: 9780827237162Publication Date: 2017-11-07 (on order)Equal parts inspiration, education, and Do-It-Yourself, Transforming Communities by veteran community activist Sandhya Jha will open your eyes to the world-healing potential within you, and give you the vision, the tools, and the encouragement to start transforming your neighborhood, one person at a time.
Turn This World Inside Out: The Emergence of Nurturance Culture by ISBN: 9781849353595Publication Date: 2019 (on order)Emerging from insights in gender studies, race theory, and psychology, and influenced by contemporary social movements, Turn This World Inside Out engages today's crucial questions, helping move us beyond seemingly intractable barriers to collective change.
Until We Reckon: Violence, Mass Incarceration, and a Road to Repair by ISBN: 1620974800Publication Date: 2019Danielle Sered, the executive director of Common Justice and renowned expert on violence, offers pragmatic solutions that take the place of prison, meeting the needs of survivors and creating pathways for people who have committed violence to repair harm.
Books Avaliable in Print
Conflict Is Not Abuse: Overstating Harm, Community Responsibility, and the Duty of Repair by Call Number: Lincoln Park Stacks ; 303.69 S3866C2016ISBN: 9781551526430Publication Date: 2016-10-04From intimate relationships to global politics, Sarah Schulman observes a continuum: that inflated accusations of harm are used to avoid accountability. This deep, brave, and bold work reveals how punishment replaces personal and collective self-criticism, and shows why difference is so often used to justify cruelty and shunning.
Healing Justice Lineages: Dreaming at the Crossroads of Liberation, Collective Care, and Safety by Call Number: Lincoln Park Stacks ; 303.372 P1322h 2023ISBN: 1623177146Publication Date: 2023-02-07In this anthology, Black Queer Feminist editors Cara Page and Erica Woodland guide readers through the history, legacies, and liberatory practices of healing justice-a political strategy of collective care and safety that intervenes on generational trauma from systemic violence and oppression.
Healing Resistance: A Radically Different Response to Harm by ISBN: 9781946764430Publication Date: 2020-01-14 (on order)In Healing Resistance, leading trainer Kazu Haga blazingly reclaims the energy and assertiveness of nonviolent practice and shows that a principled approach to nonviolence is the way to transform not only unjust systems but broken relationships.
How We Show Up: Reclaiming Family, Friendship and Community by ISBN: 9781580058070Publication Date: 2020-06-02 (on order)In How We Show Up, community visionary Mia Birdsong delivers a modern, timely understanding of what true, authentic family and community can look like. By sharing stories and actionable advice, and taking cues from marginalized communities--people of color, women, LGBTQ--Mia Birdsong offers us the blueprint we need to build true community wherever we are.
Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the next) by Call Number: Lincoln Park Stacks; 303.372 S7327m2020ISBN: 1839762128Publication Date: 2020-10-27This book is about mutual aid: why it is so important, what it looks like, and how to do it. It provides a grassroots theory of mutual aid, describes how mutual aid is a crucial part of powerful movements for social justice, and offers concrete tools for organizing.
Revolution Starts at Home: Confronting Intimate Violence Within Activist Communities by Call Number: Lincoln Park Stacks ; 362.8292 R4548ISBN: 9781849352628Publication Date: 2016-08-30 (on order)Radical movements for social change are not immune to sexual assault and gendered violence. This collection brings together two dozen voices, as fearless as they are compassionate, to challenge the intimate forms of oppression that surround us.
Security, with Care: Restorative Justice and Healthy Societies by ISBN: 9781552664254Publication Date: 2011-04-01 (on order)In Security, With Care, Elliott argues that restorative justice cannot be actualized solely within the criminal justice system. Restorative justice must be more than a program within the current system - it must be a new paradigm for responding to harm and conflict.
A World Without Police: How Strong Communities Make Cops Obsolete by ISBN: 9781839760068Publication Date: 2022-11-08 (on order)Compellingly argued and lyrically charged, A World Without Police offers concrete strategies for confronting and breaking police power, as a first step toward building community alternatives that make the police obsolete.
Online Resources
- Creative InterventionsStories of community-based responses to violence.
- Mutual Aid 101 ToolkitThis toolkit includes step by step instructions for how you can build your own mutual aid network while staying safe from the spread of COVID-19.
- Pods and Pod Mapping WorksheetCreated by Bay Area Transformative Justice Collective (BATJC), a Pod is made up of the people that you would call on if violence, harm or abuse happened to you; or the people that you would call on if you wanted support in taking accountability for violence, harm or abuse that you’ve done; or if you witnessed violence or if someone you care about was being violent or being abused.
