Session 6: Everyday Abolition
Core Readings (v.2022)
Barnard Center for Research on Women / (2020) Everyday Practices of Transformative Justice [video]. Featuring Shira Hassan, Martina Kartman, Rachel Herzing, Mia Mingus, Priya Rai, Lea Roth, and Sonya Shah. [14min]
Mia Mingus (2020) Pods and Pod-Mapping Worksheet Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement, Edited by Ejeris Dixon and Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha. Oakland, AK press, p. 119-125. [6 pages]
S Lamble (2021) Practicing Everyday Abolition. In: Abolishing the Police. Edited by Koshka Duff & Illustrated by Cat Sims. Dog Section Press, p. 147-160. [13 pages]
Dean Spade (2020) Three Key Elements of Mutual Aid. Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During this crisis and the next. Verso. p. 9-20.
Ann Russo (2019) Chapter 6: Everyday Responses to Everyday Violence. Feminist Accountability: Disrupting Violence and Transforming Power. New York: New York University Press, p. 132-142. [10 pages]
Choose one or two of the following to look at:
Good Night Out
A project to help nightlife and festival spaces to better understand, respond to, and prevent sexual harassment and assault.
Fireweed Collective: Crisis Toolkit
Great resources on how to prepare for and respond to crisis, particularly around mental health needs.
Creative Interventions Toolkit
Practical guidance and resources to stop interpersonal violence without relying on police.
Hollaback! Bystander Interventions
Hollaback (recently renamed ‘Free to be’) offers training and resources on how to safely intervene in situations of harassment.
Audre Lorde Project: Safer Party Toolkit
The “Safe Outside the System” project is based in New York but provides some great resources that can be used more widely, such as the safer party toolkit, wellness and safety planning, safer home toolkit.
DIY Space for London: Accountability Handbook
A model for setting up safer spaces and accountability processes for social centres and venues.
No More Exclusions: What about the Other 29? And other FAQs
A guide to demystifying abolition in the UK education system.