Thank you so much for attending our talk!
The full script for the current version of the talk can be found here. A slideshow version of the talk with all the art can be found on Sasha or Jonathan’s Patreons (slideshow version may be released outside of that in the future once the talk has been polished a bit further.)
Here are some additional resources you may find useful.
| Title | Author | Format | Description / Blurb |
|---|---|---|---|
| https://youtu.be/DalnJ-isI5A | https://www.youtube.com/@SophiefromMars | Youtube Video | A deeply thought-through argument for practicing community care and radical organizing in the face of climate change. |
| https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59883978-on-repentance-and-repair | https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/240576.Danya_Ruttenberg | Book, Audiobook | An intentional and compassionate book about the work of making actual atonement, and the ways in which apology is used and misused in our contemporary context. |
| https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60199447-the-future-is-disabled | https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/320728.Leah_Lakshmi_Piepzna_Samarasinha | Book, Audiobook | A disabled activist’s perspective on disabled community and mutual care, especially in the context of surviving COVID and what we can learn in anticipation of a disabled-majority future. |
| https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55608932-we-will-not-cancel-us?ref=nav_sb_ss_1_19 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55608932-we-will-not-cancel-us?ref=nav_sb_ss_1_19 | Book | Originating as a way for marginalized and disempowered people to address harm and take down powerful abusers, often with the help of social media, call outs are seen by some as having gone too far. But what is “too far” when you’re talking about imbalances of power and patterns of harm? And what happens when people in social justice movements direct their righteous anger inward at one another? |
| https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29633913-emergent-strategy?ref=nav_sb_ss_1_8 | https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1536532.Adrienne_Maree_Brown | Book | Inspired by Octavia Butler's explorations of our human relationship to change, Emergent Strategy is radical self-help, society-help, and planet-help designed to shape the futures we want to live. |
| https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/46010784-fumbling-towards-repair?ref=nav_sb_ss_3_10 | Mariame Kaba, | ||
| Shira Hassan | Book | Fumbling Towards Repair is a workbook by Mariame Kaba and Shira Hassan that includes reflection questions, skill assessments, facilitation tips, helpful definitions, activities, and hard-learned lessons intended to support people who have taken on the coordination and facilitation of formal community accountability processes to address interpersonal harm & violence. | |
| https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51778952-beyond-survival?ref=rae_1 | Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha | ||
| (Editor), | |||
| Ejeris Dixon | |||
| (Editor) | Book | Afraid to call 911 but not sure what to do instead? Transformative justice and other community-based approaches to violence have existed for centuries, yet are often under the radar and marginalized. This is How We Survive focuses on concrete alternatives to policing and prisons. From practical tool-kits and personal essays, to supporting people in mental health crises, to community-based murder investigations, this text delves deeply into the “how to” of transformative justice. | |
| https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56019003-we-do-this-til-we-free-us?ref=rae_0 | Mariame Kaba, | ||
| Naomi Murakawa | |||
| (Foreword) | Book | What if social transformation and liberation isn't about waiting for someone else to come along and save us? What if ordinary people have the power to collectively free ourselves? In this timely collection of essays and interviews, Mariame Kaba reflects on the deep work of abolition and transformative political struggle. | |
| https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61187307-let-this-radicalize-you?ref=rae_2 | Kelly Hayes, | ||
| Mariame Kaba | Book | What fuels and sustains activism and organizing when it feels like our worlds are collapsing? Let This Radicalize You is a practical and imaginative resource for activists and organizers building power in an era of destabilization and catastrophe. |
Do you have additional resources relevant to the talk that you’d like to suggest for this list? Please email me at [email protected] and I’ll check it out! I’d like to include more resources, including suggestions of mutual aid organizations people could join, but have not quite had time to vet more material on my own just yet.
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