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This library is a curated collection of resources dedicated to abolition, queer death, grief, and community care. Whether you’re new to these concepts or looking to deepen your understanding, you’ll find a range of materials to explore, from practical guides to thought-provoking essays.
Abolition
The exercises in this workbook are offered as a way to bring love into the hard parts of our relationships.
Conflict Workbook
A six-week study group designed to introduce you to abolition.
If You're New to Abolition: Study Group Guide
A handbook designed to provide a wide range of concepts, strategies, and practical education-action tools.
Instead of Prisons: A Handbook for Abolitionists
A brief explanation of conflict as a tool in our collective toolbox.
Using Conflict Mediation as a Tool for Abolition
Inside the toolkit, you’ll find general information sheets to help make the connections between PIC abolition and other social justice struggles.
CR abolition toolkit
This collection provides rigorous and accessible analyses of why we might want to abolish the police, what abolishing them would involve, and how it might be achieved, introducing readers to the rich existing traditions of anti-police theory and practice.
Practicing Everyday Abolition — Abolitionist Futures
How can we challenge hate and police violence by using community-based strategies rather than relying on the police?
Ten Lessons For Creating Safety Without Police
Short overview of resolving conflict without falling victim to carceral logic and relying on tactics of social violence.
Abolition and conflict resolution on the left
Get in Formation: A Community Safety Toolkit
This toolkit is a collection of security and safety practices that have been built and learned for years from Black, Indigenous, and People of Color movements within the U.S.
This resource was created to offer educators tools and insights to help create alternatives to punishment in classrooms.
How to Share Space - Creating Community in Classrooms and Beyond
So You're Ready To Choose Love Workbook
Trauma-informed conflict transformation for social justice & spiritual growth.
A framework for navigating conflict in movement groups, provides a diagnostic tool to help assess what the sources of harm or conflict might be, and pulls together a variety of tools and resources groups can access and try out on their own or with support.
When We Fall Apart Workbook
Abolition as a Project of Personal Transformation
This article aims to begin to map some of the heretofore unmapped terrain of abolitionism by looking at the ways in which abolition must involve a component of individual, personal, and relational work.
A zine on practicing abolition on a daily basis.
Practicing Abolition, Creating Community
death
The contributions collected in this article sit at the crossroads between thanatology and queer theory and tackle questions such as: how can we define queer death studies as a research field?
What Do We Talk about When We Talk about Queer Death?
A personal article on grief and death.
Mourning While Queer: On Death, Grief and Regrets — Mangal Media
An essay on personal grief.
Death, Grieving, and the Necessity of History | AAIHS
How to care for your animal companion at home.
Home Funerals for Pets
A list of reflection questions.
Queering Death - An Anthology of Questions
An explanation and guide to caring for our own dead.
Why Caring For Our Own Dead Is An Act Of Social Justice
African American death scholar Dr. Kami Fletcher gives her five essential reads for understanding the African death and mourning experience in America.
5 Essential Reads on African American Deathways and Death Work
A 4-part series exploring end-of-life inequality.
The Death Gap
This toolkit is a collection of security and safety practices that have been built and learned for years from Black, Indigenous, and People of Color movements within the U.S.
Race & The Funeral Profession: What Jessica Mitford Missed
