THREAD:
I asked twitter yesterday for resources on prison/police abolition that address sexual violence & domestic violence, and I’m going to share everything in a thread. These resources range from personal narratives to books to academic articles - it’s a wide range.
I asked twitter yesterday for resources on prison/police abolition that address sexual violence & domestic violence, and I’m going to share everything in a thread. These resources range from personal narratives to books to academic articles - it’s a wide range.
Survivors: if the mere idea of abolition (or analyzing our punishment for violence in general) makes you anxious, you do not need to grapple with this. It is not your responsibility to figure out how to heal the brokenness that has already heavily impacted you.
How Can We Reconcile Prison Abolition With #MeToo? by Victoria Law filtermag.org/how-can-we-rec…
Surviving Rape as a Prison Abolitionist by Miriam Perez-Putnam transformharm.org/surviving-rape…
MPD 150 (@MPD_150) - lots of resources on their website mpd150.com, but I’m going to share this graphic of theirs specificslly because I’ve seen it going around a lot today and I think it’s a great summary of what abolishment is about: 
When the Pysche is the Crime Scene: The Criminal Legal System's Failure to Meaningfully Respond to Crimes of Sexual Violence by @philawsostef: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…
Twitter accounts for Survived & Punished: @survivepunishNY and @survivepunish
Website: survivedandpunished.org
Website: survivedandpunished.org
Don't Use Sexual Assault Survivors to Justify Police and Incarceration by Kylie Cheung: themarysue.com/dont-use-survi…
“Therapy with Harming Fathers, Victimized Children, and Their Mothers After Parental Child Sexual Assault” by Dale Tolliday
“The Feminist & the Sex Offender” by Judith Levine and Erica Meiners. @amberspeaksup is hosting an upcoming virtual panel on this book on June 20th
Decriminalizing Domestic Violence and A Troubled Marriage: Domestic Violence and the Legal System, both books written by @LeighGoodmark
Transform Harm: transformharm.org
Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color by Andrea Ritchie (@dreanyc123)
Advancing Theory, Methods, and Dissemination in Sexual Violence Research to Build a More Equitable Future: An Intersectional, Community-Engaged Approach journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/10… - DM @McCauleyHL if you can't access it
This interview with Mariame Kaba: nbcnews.com/think/opinion/…
A collection of videos from Mariame Kaba: bcrw.barnard.edu/fellows/mariam…
The Revolution Starts at Home: Confronting Intimate Partner Violence Within Activist Communities amazon.com/Revolution-Sta…
Until We Reckon: Violence, Mass Incarceration, and a Road to Repair by Danielle Sered
Up Against a Wall: Rape Reform and the Failure of Success by Rose Corrigan
Up Against a Wall: Rape Reform and the Failure of Success by Rose Corrigan
Is it time to reimagine justice and accountability for sexual misconduct? chicagoreader.com/Bleader/archiv…
Feeling Like A Failure: Teaching/Learning Abolition Through the Good the Bad and the Innocent, by Jessi Lee Jackson and Erica R. Meiners: homepages.neiu.edu/~ermeiner/Mein…
Please add more resources below if you have them! Thank you to everyone who helped create this list 💖
I missed one from yesterday - another book: Beyond Survival by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha.
And there are other suggestions for articles already in the replies to the tweet above!
And there are other suggestions for articles already in the replies to the tweet above!
