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Here are some additional resources you may find useful.
| Title | Author | Format | Description / Blurb |
|---|---|---|---|
| The World is Not Ending | Sophie from Mars | Youtube Video | A deeply thought-through argument for practicing community care and radical organizing in the face of climate change. |
| On Repentance and Repair: Making Amends in an Unapologetic World | 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. |
| The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes, and Mourning Songs | 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. |
| We Will Not Cancel Us: and other dreams of Transformative Justice | We Will Not Cancel Us: and other dreams of Transformative Justice | 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? |
| Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds | 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. |
| Fumbling Towards Repair: A Workbook for Community Accountability Facilitators | 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. | |
| Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement | Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha | ||
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| 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. | |
| We Do This 'til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice | 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. | |
| Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care | 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. |
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