Community Resources

• Creative Interventions Toolkit: A Practical Guide to Stop Interpersonal Violence (2012) 

• Critical Resistance: The Abolition Organizing Toolkit (2004)

• Critical Resistance: From Crisis to Care: Ending the Health Harm of Women’s Prisons. (February 2023)

• Generation FIVE: Toward Transformative Justice — A Liberatory Approach to Child Sexual Abuse and other forms of Intimate and Community Violence (2007) 

• INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence: Law Enforcement Violence Against Women of Color & Trans People of Color (2008) 

• Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color (2017)

• Love and Protect | Survived and Punished: #SurvivedAndPunished: Survivor Defense as Abolitionist Praxis — A Collaborative Toolkit (2017)

• Malcolm X Grassroots Movement. Let Your Motto Be Resistance (2013)

• Say Her Name: Resisting Police Brutality Against Black Women (2015)

• Workers World Party: Every Struggle is a Woman’s Struggle (2018) 

• Young Farmers Racial Equity Toolkit (2020)

These resources are compiled by organizations doing the work on the ground. Please feel free to share widely!

Readings

• Al-Ghazzali, On Disciplining the Self. Translated by Muhammad Nur Abdus Salam. Chicago, IL: Great Books of the Islamic World, 2002.

• Assata Shakur. Assata: An Autobiography. Cuba: Lawrence Hill Books, 1987. pp. 45-70, 180.

• Audre Lorde. Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches. Trumansburg, NY: Crossing Press, 1984. 

• Audre Lorde. “The Uses of Anger.” Women’s Studies Quarterly Issue 9, no. 3 (1981): pp. 7-10. 

• bell hooks. All About Love: New Visions. New York: William Morrow, 2000. 

• Fred Ho. Principles for the Revolutionary Matriarchy Society, 2012.

• Gloria Anzaldúa. “Speaking in Tongues: A Letter To 3rd World Women Writers.” In This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color. London: Persephone Press, 1980.

• INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence. Color of Violence: The INCITE! Anthology. Cambridge, Massachusetts: South End Press, 2006.

• Leah Penniman and Karen Washington. Farming While Black: Soul Fire Farm's Practical Guide to Liberation on the Land. Hartford, Vermont: Chelsea Green Publishing, 2018. 

• Maria Mies & Veronika Bennholdt-Thomsen: The Subsistence Perspective: Beyond the Globalized Economy. Zed Books, 1999.

• Marianita Girlie C. Villariba. “Babaylan Women as Guide to a Life of Justice and Peace” Women in Action Issue 2, 2006: pp. 54-60.

• Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz. An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States. Boston: Beacon Press, 2015.

• Russell Maroon Shoatz. “Respect Our Mothers: Stop Hating Women,” Maroon The Implacable. Oakland: PM Press, 2013.