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cmjustice's review against another edition
4.0
The youthful enthusiasm and commitment is palpable, the message very palatable and not only possible, but necessary.
yellowcloudintrousers's review against another edition
a realization that through all the concepts of punishment, and all the stated logic of incarceration, we have been unable to address what seems fundamentally most important when something goes wrong: healing, repair and transformation.
We need policies that allow for transformation. We need communities to have the opportunity to support their citizens, to create the family structures that work for their people.
Abolition calls on us not only to destabilize, deconstruct, and demolish oppressive systems, institutions, and practices, but also to repair histories of harm across the board. Our task is not only to abolish prisons, policing, and militarization, which are wielded in the name of “public safety” and “national security.” We must also demand reparations and incorporate reparative justice into our vision for society and community building in the twenty-first century. Reparations campaigns encompass a wide array of demands. Most commonly, reparations in our contemporary movements are justified by the historical pains and damage caused by European settler colonialism and are proposed in the form of demands for financial restitution, land redistribution, political self-determination, culturally relevant education programs, language recuperation, and the right to return.
p. 57
I wanted my community to have access to beauty and food and adequate public education. I wanted to know that we were not going to just survive but that my community would thrive. Wanting the very bare minimum to exist on this planet should not even be called imagining.
She noticed that oftentimes people could readily diagnose, analyze and tell a whole history about the problems in our society —but rarely could they envision the world beyond the pain of injustice. Even more alarming, she observed that the well-meaning people in the room were quick to separate themselves from the “bad people” and place all blame on the “other” without taking our human interconnectedness into consideration.
radical imagination, dreaming against fear
Forgiveness is rooted in the idea that we value each other and we are committed to each other’s growth, healing and transformation. Forgiveness provides a pathway toward self-reflexiveness. When we persist in forgiveness we open up the space for the healing of our past and the healing of our future.
Those who seek to work in the world of abolition likely come from a world designed to numb feelings.
Sometimes abuse and harm are done unintentionally, but whether we cause harm intentionally or unintentionally, it is our work to interrupt that pattern for the sake of healing and liberation. As a part of developing abolitionist spaces, collectives and institutions, we have to be careful to not enact the same harm and abuse we have been living and breathing in. That is why it is important that when we are creating new spaces, they are built as abolitionist spaces.
It is critical that when harm happens, we examine the root systems of harm in the life of the harm doer.
by Mariame Kaba and Shira Hassan called Fumbling Towards Repair
octavia butler, alicia garza
Ida bell wells
We need policies that allow for transformation. We need communities to have the opportunity to support their citizens, to create the family structures that work for their people.
Abolition calls on us not only to destabilize, deconstruct, and demolish oppressive systems, institutions, and practices, but also to repair histories of harm across the board. Our task is not only to abolish prisons, policing, and militarization, which are wielded in the name of “public safety” and “national security.” We must also demand reparations and incorporate reparative justice into our vision for society and community building in the twenty-first century. Reparations campaigns encompass a wide array of demands. Most commonly, reparations in our contemporary movements are justified by the historical pains and damage caused by European settler colonialism and are proposed in the form of demands for financial restitution, land redistribution, political self-determination, culturally relevant education programs, language recuperation, and the right to return.
p. 57
I wanted my community to have access to beauty and food and adequate public education. I wanted to know that we were not going to just survive but that my community would thrive. Wanting the very bare minimum to exist on this planet should not even be called imagining.
She noticed that oftentimes people could readily diagnose, analyze and tell a whole history about the problems in our society —but rarely could they envision the world beyond the pain of injustice. Even more alarming, she observed that the well-meaning people in the room were quick to separate themselves from the “bad people” and place all blame on the “other” without taking our human interconnectedness into consideration.
radical imagination, dreaming against fear
Forgiveness is rooted in the idea that we value each other and we are committed to each other’s growth, healing and transformation. Forgiveness provides a pathway toward self-reflexiveness. When we persist in forgiveness we open up the space for the healing of our past and the healing of our future.
Those who seek to work in the world of abolition likely come from a world designed to numb feelings.
Sometimes abuse and harm are done unintentionally, but whether we cause harm intentionally or unintentionally, it is our work to interrupt that pattern for the sake of healing and liberation. As a part of developing abolitionist spaces, collectives and institutions, we have to be careful to not enact the same harm and abuse we have been living and breathing in. That is why it is important that when we are creating new spaces, they are built as abolitionist spaces.
It is critical that when harm happens, we examine the root systems of harm in the life of the harm doer.
by Mariame Kaba and Shira Hassan called Fumbling Towards Repair
octavia butler, alicia garza
Ida bell wells
thelibraryofminds's review against another edition
5.0
All the things I’ve read lately and loved have been about how to believe in a different future in the face of the world we live in-how to build community, how to believe in transformative justice, how to forgive, how to build something new.
This is an entry in that-an entry about how to imagine and forgive and think bigger and see a future that isn’t based in bad systems. I really loved it.
This is an entry in that-an entry about how to imagine and forgive and think bigger and see a future that isn’t based in bad systems. I really loved it.
pinktotodile's review against another edition
5.0
This was a good and quick read. I didn't know that there would be guiding questions throughout so I will be coming back to this at some point with a pen and paper.
Overall this was probably a 4.5 rounded up to 5. Patrisse says in the beginning of the book that there should be things that readers don't agree with. There were one or two things that came up for me, but ultimately, this was a great guide for deepening my abolitionist practice and mindset. It is also a great read for anyone that abolition is new to. There are recommendations for further readings/media throughout.
Overall this was probably a 4.5 rounded up to 5. Patrisse says in the beginning of the book that there should be things that readers don't agree with. There were one or two things that came up for me, but ultimately, this was a great guide for deepening my abolitionist practice and mindset. It is also a great read for anyone that abolition is new to. There are recommendations for further readings/media throughout.
the_wistful_word_witch's review against another edition
challenging
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
slow-paced
5.0
An Abolitionist's Handbook is chockablock full of great information. The book may only be 288 pages but the knowledge being dispensed is incredibly dense.
Cullors provides historical background, anecdotes from her own life, and great questions for everyone to reflect on at the end of each chapter. Anyone can apply the information contained in this book in their social justice work, and even their personal life.
I will definitely have to reread this handbook a few times to absorb all the information Cullors imparts within its pages.
Cullors provides historical background, anecdotes from her own life, and great questions for everyone to reflect on at the end of each chapter. Anyone can apply the information contained in this book in their social justice work, and even their personal life.
I will definitely have to reread this handbook a few times to absorb all the information Cullors imparts within its pages.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Racism
erinjp123's review against another edition
3.0
This had some interesting bits but as someone that reads a lot of this vein of books, I didn't think this was the best one. A bit too self congratulatory and less informative than I would have liked