online library.
abolition.
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The exercises in this workbook are offered as a way to bring love into the hard parts of our relationships.
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A six-week study group designed to introduce you to abolition.
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A handbook designed to provide a wide range of concepts, strategies, and practical education-action tools.
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A brief explanation of conflict as a tool in our collective toolbox.
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Inside the toolkit, you’ll find general information sheets to help make the connections between PIC abolition and other social justice struggles.
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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.
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How can we challenge hate and police violence by using community-based strategies rather than relying on the police?
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Short overview of resolving conflict without falling victim to carceral logic and relying on tactics of social violence.
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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.
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This resource was created to offer educators tools and insights to help create alternatives to punishment in classrooms.
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So-you're-ready-to-choose-love-workbook.pdf
Trauma-informed conflict transformation for social justice & spiritual growth.
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A collection of resources to aid in evaluation and reflection.
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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.
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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.
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issuu.com/projectnia/docs/practicing_abolition_creating_community_final_22
A zine on practicing abolition on a daily basis.
death.
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philarchive.org/archive/MACWDW-7
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?
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mangalmedia.net/english/mourning-while-queer-on-death-grief-and-regrets
A personal article on grief and death.
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aaihs.org/death-grieving-and-the-necessity-of-history
An essay on personal grief.
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How to care for your animal companion at home.
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A list of reflection questions.
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why-caring-for-our-dead-is-an-act-of-social-justice.pdf
An explanation and guide to caring for our own dead.
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orderofthegooddeath.com/article/5-essentials-reads-on-african-american-deathways-and-death-work
African American death scholar Dr. Kami Fletcher gives her five essential reads for understanding the African death and mourning experience in America.
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radicaldeathstudies.com/blog/2020/11/21/death-gap
A 4-part series exploring end-of-life inequality.
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talkdeath.com/race-funeral-profession-what-jessica-mitford-missed
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.
grief.
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A chronic pain and illness zine on queer disabled grief.
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yesmagazine.org/issue/endings/2023/02/27/black-grief
A reflection on collective black grief.
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In a Minor Key Queer Kinship in Times of Grief | Google Doc
A journal on cisheteronormativity and the concealing of phobias and irrational fears behind rhetorics of acceptance.
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scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2647&context=etd
This study examined the ways in which queer people experience disenfranchised grief when mourning the death of a loved one who was also queer/LGBTQIA2S+ and whose relationship with one another existed outside of cisgender/heteronormative frameworks.
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scholarworks.calstate.edu/downloads/f7623j62n
This project stages an inquiry into how mainstream contemporary theorizations of grief might be repositioned through queer and feminist theory.
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prismreports.org/2021/04/21/embracing-grief-can-empower-bipoc-to-live-more-fully-in-the-face-of-loss
Three Black women within the end-of-life care industry provide insights on the importance of grieving and why acknowledging it can help us live more fully.
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surface.syr.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1133&context=thesis
Structured feelings and queering the affective potential of grief.
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gaysifamily.com/culture/horror-a-queer-avenue-to-walk-through-grief%EF%BF%BC/
A short reflection on the connection between queerness and horror movies.
kids.
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issuu.com/projectnia/docs/_2021__ayo-final-combined
A youth guide to abolition.
queerness.
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inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1003/homonationalism-and-the-death-of-the-radical-queer
A paper that analyzes how recent queer advocacy, with its rhetoric of liberal normativity and visibility, the gay rights movement has chosen inclusion over revolution.
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scholarship.richmond.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1999&context=honors-theses
A paper on hierarchy and commercialization in contemporary queer club culture.
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dollyrose.substack.com/p/the-cursed-privilege-of-the-tenderqueer
A warning about tenderqueers and the harm they can cause.
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lambdaliterary.org/2021/01/bitch-on-wheels
Sylvia Rivera’s speech “Bitch On Wheels” at NYC Pride in June 2001.
politics.
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hoodcommunist.org/2021/09/09/the-limits-of-lived-experience
A youth guide to abolition.