We know that the topics of this anthology will be triggering for some, and surprising for others.
This list is a work in progress of resources that have helped some of us at different moments in our lives. That being said, some of these resources may be triggering in and of themselves.
Prison Abolition and/or Activism:
Critical Resistance: is a national (US based) organization dedicated to opposing the expansion of the prison industrial complex.
Journal of Prisoners on Prisons: prisoner written, academically oriented and peer reviewed, non-profit journal, based on the tradition of the penal press.
No One Is Illegal: is a group of immigrants, refugees and allies who fight for the rights of all migrants to live with dignity and respect. (From the Toronto link)
Prison Activist Resource Center: PARC is a prison abolitionist group based on Oakland, California committed to exposing and challenging the institutionalized racism, sexism, ableism, heterosexism, and classism of the Prison Industrial Complex.
Prison Justice: In Support of Prisoners and Prison Justice Activism in Canada
Voices From the Cracks: This blog is a project that with the purpose of allowing prisoners to express themselves in the public sphere.
Women + Prison: A website, installation + zine created entirely from the work + lives of America's incarcerated women.
Journal of Prisoners on Prisons: prisoner written, academically oriented and peer reviewed, non-profit journal, based on the tradition of the penal press.
No One Is Illegal: is a group of immigrants, refugees and allies who fight for the rights of all migrants to live with dignity and respect. (From the Toronto link)
Prison Activist Resource Center: PARC is a prison abolitionist group based on Oakland, California committed to exposing and challenging the institutionalized racism, sexism, ableism, heterosexism, and classism of the Prison Industrial Complex.
Prison Justice: In Support of Prisoners and Prison Justice Activism in Canada
Voices From the Cracks: This blog is a project that with the purpose of allowing prisoners to express themselves in the public sphere.
Women + Prison: A website, installation + zine created entirely from the work + lives of America's incarcerated women.
Books:
Abolition Now!: Ten Years of Strategy and Struggle Against the Prison Industrial Complex, edited by CR-10 Publications Collective
Are Prisons Obsolete?, by Angela Y. Davis.
Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex, edited by Nat Smith and Eric A. Stanley
Global Lockdown: Race, Gender, and the Prison-Industrial Complex, edited by Julia Sudbury
Prison/Culture, edited by Rebeka Rodriguez, Mark Dean Jonson, Steve Dickison, Kevin B. Chen, and Sharon Bliss
The Real Cost of Prisons Comix, edited by Lois Ahrens
Resistance Behind Bars: The Struggles of Incarcerated Women, by Victoria Law
Global Lockdown: Race, Gender, and the Prison-Industrial Complex, edited by Julia Sudbury
Prison/Culture, edited by Rebeka Rodriguez, Mark Dean Jonson, Steve Dickison, Kevin B. Chen, and Sharon Bliss
The Real Cost of Prisons Comix, edited by Lois Ahrens
Resistance Behind Bars: The Struggles of Incarcerated Women, by Victoria Law
Sexual Assault/Domestic Violence:
- Especially their Resources for Organizing;
- But also their blog
Project Unbreakable: The Beginning of Healing Through Art, "Grace uses photography to help heal sexual abuse survivors by photographing them with posters that hold quotes from their attackers."
Rape Culture 101, by Melissa McEwan blogging at Shakesville
Stop Prisoner Rape: is a health and human rights organization that seeks to end sexual abuse in all forms of detention.
StoryTelling & Organizing Project (STOP): is a community project collecting and sharing stories about everyday people taking action to end interpersonal violence.
Rape Culture 101, by Melissa McEwan blogging at Shakesville
Stop Prisoner Rape: is a health and human rights organization that seeks to end sexual abuse in all forms of detention.
StoryTelling & Organizing Project (STOP): is a community project collecting and sharing stories about everyday people taking action to end interpersonal violence.
Books:
Color of Violence: The INCITE! Anthology, edited by INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence
Conquest: Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide, by Andrea Smith
Restorative Justice and Violence Against Women, edited by Jame Ptacek
Restorative Justice and Violence Against Women, edited by Jame Ptacek
The Revolution Starts at Home: Confronting Intimate Violence Within Activist Communities, edited by Ching-In Chen, Jai Dulani, and Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
