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A pocket zine on bystander intervention and de-escalation, as an abolitionist practice for dealing with harm or potential harm in your commu
What Is Driving Criminalization of Women and LGBTQ People? Update — Interrupting Criminalization
This update to Interrupting Criminalization’s 2019 publication What Is Driving Criminalization of Women and LGBTQ People? comes as we enter
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“Remember to imagine and craft the worlds you cannot live without, just as you dismantle the ones you cannot live within.” - Ruha Benjamin
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A resource for people interested in and working to develop abolitionist crisis response rooted in transformative justice. This offering aims
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Most often, attacks on libraries focus on books—various interest groups have tried to remove a wide range of books from library shelves. Som
Libraries offer the possibility of knowledge and self-empowerment to all. Because they are at least potentially a force for equality, and because those in power often view knowledge as dangerous, libraries have sometimes been seen as dangerous themselves.
Most often, attacks on libraries focus on books—various interest groups have tried to remove a wide range of books from library shelves. Sometimes, though, librarians who take the egalitarian mission of the library seriously have also become targets of their communities or of the state.
In this essay, Mariame Kaba walks readers through the history of assaults on librarians—including librarians persecuted during Red Scares and the violence against activists desegregating libraries during the Civil Rights Movement—contemporary threats, and examples of library workers pushing back as we continue the long haul of protecting our libraries and the people who work in them.
Inspired by “Block & Build” sheets circulating, Interrupting Criminalization offers an abolitionist take on strategic frameworks f
Everyday Resources for a Punishment-Free World
Giving Name To The Nameless: Using Poetry as an Anti-Violence Intervention
with Mariame Kaba
The use of literature and guided reading has been recognized as a viable option for helping young people address their concerns. Poetry is a particularly wonderful way to address sensitive issues (like sexuality, violence, and self-esteem). When young people (or adults for that matter) see something of themselves in a piece of literature (books, poetry), identify with the work, reflect on it, and undergo some emotional growth as a result of that reading experience, this can be considered a useful anti-violence intervention.
During this session, Mariame Kaba, founder and director of Project NIA & co-founder of Interrupting Criminalization, as facilitated a workshop based on a curriculum resource that she developed along with Caitlin Ostrow-Seidler several years ago. The resource includes over 30 poems that address gender-based violence as well as tips and suggestions for individuals who are interested in facilitating poetry circles with girls and young women