Short, introductory reads

● “Yes, We Mean Literally Abolish Police,” by Mariame Kaba (non-paywalled copy)

● “How I Became a Police Abolitionist,” by Derecka Purnell (non-paywalled copy)

● “The Answer to Police Violence Is Not ‘Reform.’ It’s Defunding. Here’s Why,” by Alex Vitale

● “Police Reforms You Should Always Oppose,” by Mariame Kaba

● “Reformist Reforms vs. Abolitionist Steps in Policing” chart, by Critical Resistance

● “Abolition or Bust: Liberal Police Reform as an Engine of Carceral Violence,” by Charlotte Rosen

● “Police Sexual Violence Is Hidden in Plain Sight,” by Anne Gray Fischer

● Open letter from current and former Bill de Blasio staff who serve and/or identify as gender-based violence survivors

● Letter to the Anti-Rape Movement, by Santa Cruz Women against Rape (1977)

● “New York’s Queer Liberation March Was a Reminder of Why We Need to Abolish the Police,” by Lucy Diavolo

● “Common Questions about Police and Prison Abolition and Responses,” by Dean Spade and Mariame Kaba

● Prison Abolition FAQ, by K Agbebiyi

Longer readings, toolkits, and platforms:

● Are Prisons Obsolete?, by Angela Davis

● 8 to Abolition (a rebuke to 8 Can’t Wait)

● The Critical Resistance Abolition Organizing Toolkit

● Creative Interventions Toolkit: A Practical Guide to Stop Interpersonal Violence

● Bay Area Transformative Justice Collective

● Prison Culture Blog by Mariame Kaba

● Beyond Prisons: Covid-19 Resources for Incarcerated People

● What to Do Instead of Calling the Cops by Aaron Rose

● Mutual Aid Toolkit

● Women’s March Defund the Police Toolkit

● Minneapolis and Beyond - reading list, links to resources, etc.

● MPD150 - resources and findings from Minneapolis abolitionists

● A World Without Police

● Defund Police Rebuild Our Communities Toolkit by Dream Defenders

● Defund Crash Course Day 1 Slides

● Survived and Punished - An organization that supports criminalized survivors of gendered violence

Listen or watch:

● Podcast interview with Mariame Kaba on abolition, Chris Hayes

● Beyond Prisons podcast

● Hollow Water: a short film about a small Ojibwe community that implemented traditional healing practices to address an epidemic of sexual abuse within their community

● Transforming Harm: Experiments in Accountability, Barnard Center for Research on Women: short videos on transformative justice and accountability

● "We Do This 'Til We Free Us" book launch discussion, Mariame Kaba et al.

● “Abolish Policing, Not Just the Police” webinar, Victoria Law, Maya Schenwar, Mariame Kaba

● "Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and Racist Nationalism" discussion, Harsha Walia and Robin D.G. Kelley

● "Mutual Aid" webinar, Dean Spade and Mia Mingus

● “Abolition Can’t Wait: A Teach In with #8toabolition”

● “The End of Policing: Book Launch and Discussion”

● Discussion of Beyond Survival (collection of pieces on the transformative justice movement) w/Ejeris Dixon, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, and Alex Vitale

● “On the Road with Abolition: Assessing our Steps Along the Way”

● “Policing without Police: Race, Technology, and the New Jim Code,” Ruha Benjamin and Dorothy Roberts

● Introduction to Restorative Justice, Janine Soleil Abolitionist Youth Organizing Institute

Other resource guides

● Seekers Abolition Resources

● Resource Guide: Prisons, Policing, and Punishment, by Micah Herskind

● Reading Towards Abolition: A Reading List on Policing, Rebellion, and the Criminalization of Blackness, by the Abusable Past Collective