Recs if you like Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom...

If you're looking to read something that will radicalize you...this is the list for you. Signed, your fave community organizer

Please let me know if I’ve missed anything, you have recommendations, or anything should be removed!

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

books that suggest new ways of being, inspire transformations of heart and help you step from thought into action ( ◡̀_◡́)ᕤ #RealEyesRealizeRealLies ⚜️ Recs Welcome ⚜️

Why we need a revolution and how we get there

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.

Laws are threats made by the dominant socio-economic ethnic group in a given nation. It’s just a promise of violence that’s 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.

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!!

Nonfiction books that address criminal psychology, flaws with the justice system, and what is to be done about it.

"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

personal, poetic, or literary Black Feminist/Womanist works. suggestions and/or corrections always welcome!

niche nonfiction deep dives

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 don’t 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.

Expand your knowledge and your worldview with these nonfiction books full of history and politics of the people often left out of the history written by the victors. These works explore issues troubling those trapped under colonialism and imperialism, offering new insights to globalization and new pathways to liberation.

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.

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!

Nonfiction books on my TBR