Recs if you like We Do This 'til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice...
Abolish ICE & Borders
nonfiction books to radicalize you about ICE & borders
*Note: I also have a list for abolishing prisons you should check out ❤️
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!
Further Reading: The New Jim Crow
Please let me know if I’ve missed anything, you have recommendations, or anything should be removed!
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
Intro to Prison Abolition
All of the books listed here are introductory texts for Prison Abolition. The books on this list need no prior knowledge and are all great starting points for understanding prison abolition. You will find personal accounts, journalistic and essay books, as well as accessible analyses and histories of policing/incarceration
This list is the why of abolition
Community Reflections
Handbook for the Revolution
Why we need a revolution and how we get there
tending our fire
"self-help" books that situate themselves within both subjective experience and structural analysis - approaching healing and liberation as mutually informing individual and collective work.
so you want to start a liberation book club?
You know about the necessity of community spaces. You know how important literacy is to continued revolution. You want like minded neighbors to be villagers with. So how do you start?
Why, build a liberation book club, of course!
pairs well with a shared pot of beans and rice 🍚, herbal tea from the garden 🫖, and dreams of a better future ⏳
(This is a list of books that I read with my liberatory book club. We choose books by consensus and cover a variety of buckets. Start your own!)
Not the Same Five White Ladies
All credit for this list goes to ysaleftyouonread on instagram! This is her list of female authors she spotlighted for Women’s History Month, that are “not the same five white ladies” we always hear about! My personal goal is to read one book from each of these 31 women this year; I have been loving this journey and wanted to share with you all!
(Check out Ysa’s reels, she does a great job of describing the vibes without giving away the story!)
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!!
building resistance
This is a collection of books from @bisexualbookshelf that examine power, history, and liberation across interconnected struggles.
Prison Abolition
Nonfiction books that address criminal psychology, flaws with the justice system, and what is to be done about it.
To the streets
Read about society, class consciousness and the actions we can and should take to get back our power
Feminist Theory
Non-Fiction to Survive the Ameripocalypse
Non-fic on how we got here and how to sustain eachother going forwards. A mix of difficult history, revolutionary and abolitionist works, and optimistic pathworking. Decolonial and anti-imperialist at the core.
Reading for the Resistance
Fiction and Non-Fiction for Troubled Times
Citizen's Library
Books to help you stay informed, engaged, and hopeful.
Black Author Recs
Fic + NonFic | Updating Regularly
Feminism
A work in progress. This is a list of well-received nonfiction books about feminism.
