opencommunion:

damnesdelamer:

Angela Davis, Are Prisons Obsolete?

Ejeris Dixon and Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha (eds.), Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement

Elizabeth Hinton, America On Fire: The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since the 1960s

Mariame Kaba, We Do This Til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transformative Justice

Colin Kaepernick (ed.), Abolition for the People: The Movement for a Future Without Policing and Prisons

Robin DG Kelley, Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination

Victoria Law, “Prisons Make Us Safer” and 20 Other Myths About Mass Incarceration

Assata Shakur, Assata: An Autobiography

Zena Sharman, The Care We Dream Of: Liberatory and Transformative Approaches to LGBTQ+ Health

Dean Spade, Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next)

Heather Ann Thompson, Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy

Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Abolition Geography: Essays Towards Liberation

Haven’t checked all the links here yet, but solid resource.

We are abolitionists here at Ezili’s Respite. My husband has always been far more involved, given his work background in his 20s, and my cousin has been incarcerated since we were about 18. As a Black, crip, queer, transman, my fear of going to prison or getting arrested makes me extremely risk averse; and I’ve been privileged enough in my life to avoid some of that. Not all of it though. I often feel helpless to affect this system.

Farming and creation of safer space on land for people to avoid, escape, find refuge and sanctuary from constant state-sanctioned violence that often places the most vulnerable of us in the position to be incarcerated, is the only way I know how to impact change.

Glad to have some pathways to continue this work,

KX