Recs if you like Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom...
You're not mad enough!
If you're looking to read something that will radicalize you...this is the list for you. Signed, your fave community organizer
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Transformative Justice
Books that provide solutions to navigating and resolving harm without / in opposition to the presence of carcerality (i.e. the interconnected systems of police, prisons, criminalization, punishment, surveillance, etc). In other words, it is a form of abolition + decolonization in practice re: accountability.
As an introduction, here is a primer to transformative justice.
Feedback and recommendations welcome!
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Intermediate Texts for Prison Abolition
These texts all require some level of prior knowledge and understanding of abolition, how the carceral system functions, organizing, & more.
I also have a list for intro/beginner texts
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Further Reading: The New Jim Crow
Please let me know if Iโve missed anything, you have recommendations, or anything should be removed!
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how to become your own better angel ๊ฐแ โก เป๊ฑ
books that suggest new ways of being, inspire transformations of heart and help you step from thought into action ( โกฬ_โกฬ)แค #RealEyesRealizeRealLies โ๏ธ Recs Welcome โ๏ธ
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Handbook for the Revolution
Why we need a revolution and how we get there
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Abolish Ice
Everything you need to know about the current moment: the argument for open borders - stories from undocumented Americans - immigrant life in the US - the political, environmental, and social conditions that cause people to immigrate - fiction about immigrants, immigration, forced assimilation etc.
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The ACAB Library
Laws are threats made by the dominant socio-economic ethnic group in a given nation. Itโs just a promise of violence thatโs enacted and police are basically an occupying army, you know what I mean? You guys wanna make some bacon?
Created by a surviving family member of a police-sanctioned lynching.
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on protests, civil resistance, and action
a nonfiction list on activism from the masses
I'd love reccs for this list!!! feel free to drop some in the comments and i will be eternally grateful!!
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Prison Abolition
Nonfiction books that address criminal psychology, flaws with the justice system, and what is to be done about it.
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Educating yourself because ignorance kills
"I want to live in a World where people who learn about harm to others care more about ending it than proving they aren't causing it." - feminist next door
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Mothersโ Gardens
personal, poetic, or literary Black Feminist/Womanist works. suggestions and/or corrections always welcome!
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learn something new!
niche nonfiction deep dives
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Diverse Baseline Challenge
These Diverse Baseline Challenge was created by @bookish.millennial & @themargherita.s (on instagram). In 2025, the goal is to read 1 book by a racialized author each month. This challenge is meant to encourage readers to try genres they historically donโt reach for, find new-to-them racialized authors, and to encourage reflection on our reading habits.
This is a mix of recommendations by the challenge organizers and myself.
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Policing is Bad, and We Should Abolish It
Books making the case for police abolition, focused on the nature of policing, its massive contribution to structural racism, the ineffectiveness of private prisons, and the impact the system has on our communities.
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The Most Popular Political Books From Both POV's.
I've been meaning to get into more political books lately, mostly surrounding racism, sexism, and the Jews and Palestinians because of the genocide going right now and thought other people might be the same! Let me know if there are any books I should add or remove since I'm just getting into this topic!
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