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Table of Contents
- About Consent
- Accountability Processes, Communities Responding to Sexual Assault
- About sexual assualt, rape, sexism and racism
- Radical zines
- Community Struggle – Empowerment
- Toolkits and personal stories of winning
- Sex Critical
- Sex Positive
- Sex Negative
- Sex Militant
- Books
- Further Links
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About Consent
Learning Good Consent by Cindy Crabb of Doris Zine.
This is a very good zine on the topic of consent and should be required reading for everyone. It covers tons of important information: how we define consent, identifying abusive behaviour, consent in different types of relationships, how consent interacts with gender, and shares stories of consent in relationships. There is also an extensive “resources” list at the end for those who want to learn more.
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Lets Talk About Consent Baby by the Down There Health Collective.
Let’s Talk About Consent is a short introduction to the topic of consent and how it functions/should function in the context of relationships. The zine opens with a series of questions about consent designed to get people thinking about consent. From there, the zine presents Antioch College’s “Sexual Offense Prevention Policy,” an excerpt from Our Bodies, Ourselves on communicating about sex, and lastly an article from Rolling Thunder called “We are all Survivors, We are All Perpetrators.”
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Let’s Talk Consent, from the Hysteria Collective.
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Not Without My Consent by Bullet Girl and the Enforcer
We are not exempt from being the oppressors– oppression is ingrained in our development. It is however scary to see in yourself that which you hate in society. Know what sexual assault is!
Realize the effect your actions have on people.
Let’s keep this shit far out in the open as we can
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Consent
by Philly’s Pissed and Philly Stands Up
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This zine explores tactics for sexual consent and delight for college and beyond. It uses accessible language, and is full of tools and tips for making consent fun and easier. It was originally made for incoming students at the University of California at Santa Cruz.
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Interactive Introduction to Consent, An
Always wanted to know what the big fuss on consent is all about? Well now is your chance! Learn the basics of consent and how to express and implement it into life.
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Consent is a community issue!
brought to you by the Olympia Street Medics Collective
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Ask First by Cheyenne Neckmonster
Resources for Supporters, Survivors, and Perpetrators of Sexual Assault is a collection of resources dealing with the topic of assault and abuse. It explores consent, the dynamics of abuse, how to be a responsible partner, how to support survivors, resources for survivors, and resources for perpetrators.
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Empower Yr Sexy Self A Workbook by Cheyenne Neckmonster
A workbook zine from some cool folks at the Wench Collective in Kentucky.
About: sensuality, intimacy, sexual identity, sexual health and reproduction, and seuxalization.
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Consen(t)sus? Exploring Contradictions, Practice, and Politics. Also, Gay Sex
This is a compilation zine edited by Eric Levitt of Gay 4 Pay press and Jonathan Vallely of Broken Pencil. It consists of writings, explorations and personal reflections on and about consent from people who identify/or partially identify as men who have sex with men. Lots of text and great for anyone looking for a beyond Consent 101 read.
Writings by: Eric Levitt, Jonathan Vallely, Andrew Morrison-Gurza, Eddie of Gross Process/Doom Clouds Zine, Shakir Rahim and more.
Published October 2014
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Example Consent Policies from Medic Wiki
The purpose of this page is to collect Safer Space and Consent policies form a diverse array of events and collectives, so that organizers have a resource to find ideas, wording, and policies that fit their needs and context. Note that a lot of these poliies are centered around preventing and responding to sexual assault, but many contain much broader suggestions for making spaces safer and more accessible to all people.
Thank you to the Denver on Fire Collective for first collecting many of these policies.
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Accountability Processes, Communities Responding to Sexual Assault
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Accountability Process Suggestions for People Working on Patriarchal or Sexually Abusive Behavior
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Communities Against Rape and Abuse
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Responding to Sexual Assaults at Mass Mobilizations from Medic Wiki
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Thinking Through Perpetrator Accountability (from Rolling Thunder #8)
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World Without Sexual Assault: For A Community Response to Sexual Assault
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Brainscan Zine #21: Irreconcilable Differences
I haven’t made an issue Brainscan in four years and I hope that this zine helps to explain why. Brainscan 21 explores my recognition of being in an emotionally abusive relationship, the attempts on both parts to right wrongs, the failure to do so, and gathering the strength to take the next step.
What if your private life in your relationship is vastly different than what other people see? When do you know you are in an emotionally abusive relationship? How to you gain the strength to get out of it? What do you do when you know you can’t handle the burden alone? What do you do when you feel so alone and terrified of the consequences of leaving, when if it means losing friends, a home, a job and a way life that you love?
These are just some of the ideas explored in this zine through a three year personal narrative that also challenges you to examine your relationships with power, to identify how you express the power you have, and also how you relate to the power that of others possess. But most of all this, zine is about revelation, rebirth, and growth.
44 pages, half sized
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Brainscan Zine #26: What’s the Deal with you and Microcosm
I’m just going to say that this zine is not for everyone. 26 is my leave favorite number and I ended up writing about my least favorite topic that just will not go away!
In 2006 I wrote the zine Brainscan #21: Irreconcilable Differences. This zine was about my personal experience of realizing I was in an emotionally abusive relationship, finding the courage to move on and challenging other people to identify power and how they use in in all of their relationships. In Brainscan 21 I did not name name because I did no think it was useful, but in this zine I do. Several other people have approached me with issues they have had with the same person and I thought it might be helpful for people to hear a bit more of my story tying my personal experience with Joe to my business experience.
This zine is based on this blog post http://alexwrekk.wordpress.com/2010/07/29/so-whats-the-deal-with-you-and-microcosm/. People have kept asking me about it so I thought I would put it in zine format. The blog post is about my least favorite subject: my history with Microcsm Publishing, Joe Biel and his attempted and failed accountability processes plus input from a few other people. To lighten the load I also talk about some of the other stuff I have been involved with and things I’m looking forward to next year. 32 pages 1/4 sized and uncharacteristly text heavy. $2
Back cover illustration by Steve Larder
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It’s Down to This: reflections… critiques, and ideas on community and collective response to sexual violence, abuse and accountability“This huge zine (100 pages!) is a tremendous resource for people who are committed to ending sexual violence. The past few years have seen an upsurge of community-accountability processes of dealing with assault—and lots of questions and issues these processes have raised. This zine collects a multitude of stories, reflections and articles—from advice on finding a therapist, written by a perpetrator who is in an accountability process, to articles describing what different accountability groups look like, to raw stories of the failure of radical communities to step up and offer support to survivors. Intense and essential zine for people doing this work.” – Cindy Crabb.
It’s Down to This #2 : on sexual violence, accountability, consent, healing
Cover art by Shloka Ettna
This zine is 50 pages and features work by nine artists and activists on the topics of sexual violence, (self) accountability, building cultures of care, and healing. Contributors engage critical analyses of whiteness, racism, and hetero-normativity in anti-violence work, and think critically on how colonial violence and white-supremacy inform relationships to sexuality and responses to sexual violence.
Contributors offer insight to move towards healing and building cultures of care.
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The Broken Teapot is a collection of three essays that explore the limitations of current anarchist models of “accountability” in situations of rape and abuse. The zine raises a number of important questions regarding the “accountability processes” that have been developed over the past ten or so years to deal with these issues within the anarchist space. It’s an important piece to consider when thinking about how “broken” we all are.
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If a Man Commits Rape in Newtown and No One Knows How to Deal with it.. Then Did it Ever Really Happen? is a zine that explores what happens when rape happens in a radical/anarchist community (in this case, Sydney, Australia, although the patterns are similar almost everywhere). It covers the author/survivor’s experience, the response of the “community” in Sydney, and uses this to share valuable lessons and insights about the importance of helping survivors and addressing rape within radical communities. It includes helpful ideas for how communities should respond to allegations of rape, how communities should help survivors, dealing with rape apologists, outing rapists, and more.
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A Critical Analysis of Rape Culture in Anarchist Subcultures analyzes the ways in which rape takes place, is talked about, and is dealt with in anarchist subcultures. It looks at how anarchists often seek to “silence” discussion of rape by limiting it and/or preventing it and how those who do take the risk to talk about rape are often attacked and ostracized. There is also a critique of “accountability processes” and how they are often applied. Betrayal is a very critical zine to be sure, but it offers a lot for those who wish to move in new directions.
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This zine is a very good analysis of the impasse that seems to exist within the anarchist space around assault and abuse. Starting from where we are at now with a thoughtful discussion of the limits and failures of accountability processes, the zine presents an insightful account of where we are at and where the problems exist. In many cases, the criticisms are very insightful, even if the conclusions aren’t always the most comforting. In response to the current impasse, the zine presents some possible new directions including survivor-led vigilantism, prevention through gender-based organizing, prioritizing conflict resolution, and a concept of “concentric circles of affinity.” This is a very good zine that should ideally encourage a lot of substantive discussion.
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Conflict Resolution Circles.pdf
Conflict Resolution Circles.doc
This is a handout from the Rock Dove Collective that provides an outline for an alternative model of dealing with conflict — no police, no state, no hierarchy, no jail. It’s community-based and centers around bringing people who are affected by a conflict into a facilitated circle to talk about the issues and feelings that arise from the conflict. A good beginning.
Also included is a word document with an example script outline for facilitators, as well as an outline of what circles are and aren’t intended to do.
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This is a transcript of a recording of a workshop given at the 2008 NYC Anarchist Bookfair. The workshop title is Revolution in Conflict: Anti-Authoritarian Approaches to Resolving and Transforming Conflict and Harm.
This workshop explores anti-authoritarian approaches to conflict resolution and transformation, and takes a look at methods like mediation and restorative justice from an anarchist standpoint. While we consider the long-term relevance of these options (replacing functions currently carried out by the state “after the revolution”), the main focus is on strategies we can use immediately to resolve disputes within our personal and political communities, and to begin to decrease our dependence on the state for intervention in the aftermath of harm. It talks about the anarchist theoretical context for these strategies and about practical next steps in our communities for meeting our own conflict resolution and transformation needs.
The workshop, by the way, is fucking awesome.
Hear the original recording at:
http://www.radio4all.net/index.php/program/26976
The workshop was presented by Danielle, who is a founding member of the Rock Dove Collective, a radical community health project in New York City. She is currently designing a pilot Restorative Justice project that will serve as a conduit into alternatives to incarceration for serious and violent offenders. She also works with young men returning from Rikers Island, and has engaged in anti- violent, empowerment-based programs with ‘at-risk’ youth since she was one herself. She has taught creative writing in prisons and jails in Illinois, Georgia, and New York. While in Atlanta, she created a project to teach conflict resolution through the arts in ‘inner city’ schools and juvenile detention centers, and did extensive gang intervention work in her community. She is currently part of a collective that offers trainings in consensus and facilitation, and has mediated conflicts using a variety of approaches for everything from two-person to large-scale community disputes
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The Revolution Starts At Home Confronting Partner Abuse in Activist Communities
Denver On Fire is happy to present this incredible resource in zine format! Previous editions of The Revolution Starts At Home have been in full-page-booklet style (available at http://www.incite-national.org/index.php?s=114). This format is a bit more compact.
edited by Ching-In Chen, Dulani, and Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Includes submissions from members of CARA, Philly’s Pissed, The Northwest Network, UBUNTU, INCITE! and more.
Concrete tools for community accountability organizing.
112 pages (28 double-sided sheets of paper in zine format)
denveronfire.org
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Towards Transformative Justice
Generation Five has spent the last decade, with allies across movements and across the country, developing Transformative Justice. Transformative Justice is an approach to respond to and prevent child sexual abuse and other forms of violence that puts transformation and liberation at the heart of the change. It is an approach the looks at the individual and community experiences as well as the social conditions. It is an approach that looks to integrate both personal and social transformation.
- Our aim was to develop intervention and prevention that aligned with:
our analysis of child sexual abuse as both one of the symptoms and perpetuators of oppression and violence - politics committed to systemic change and liberation our commitment to healing, agency, and accountbility
- the actual relationships and situations in which child sexual abuse happens the oppression and limitations of state responses. Through this we developed Transformative Justice. We will spend the next decade, with so many others exploring similar approaches, learning to apply the principles and practices of Transformative Justice.
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World Without Sexual Assault: For A Community Response to Sexual Assault by the World Without collective based out of Melbourne. World Without distro
This is the second newspaper put out by the World Without collective based out of Melbourne. Their new website, different from the one listed in the newspaper, will be http://www.worldwithoutsexualassault.org/ though it is not yet online. World Without also runs a distro at http://www.myspace.com/bottlesandbonesdistro, and they have an email address: worldwithout@lists.aktivix.org
The newspaper has articles on topics like grieving and mourning, myths about sexual assault, restorative justice, consent, and support.
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Radical zines
The miniskirt zinePowerful zine written by 3 survivors of sexual violence who “were lucky to find one another and who grew together by hearing each other’s stories.” Fierce stories about surviving multiple rapes by strangers; rage and calm, fighting not to be ashamed, superpowers and those powers being taken away, survival and rebuilding a life post-rape. – Cindy Crabb.
Mend My Dress: selected zines 2005-2007
Neely Bat Chestnut has compiled her zines put out between 2005-2007, which include the first six issues of Mend My Dress, as well as Dear Step Dad and Grit and Glitter, in a comprehensive anthology of early work. Chestnut’s zines are well respected in the zine community.Her zines cover issues ranging from incest, self-harm, the riot grrrl movement, feminism, friendship, fairytale, and healing as she reflects on her childhood and coming-of-age.
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Our newest zine is out! Strategies for Survivors is full of hints and tips from our experience, for survivors of sexual assault and the people who support survivors.
Click on the image for a black-and-white PDF download — it might take a while to transfer. Either view it on line or click the “booklet” setting on your print options page to make a printed copy.
For printed copies on nice paper — especially color copies — contact us by e-mail at SurvivorSupport@Riseup.Net
We are grateful to all our collective members over the years, and especially the survivors and their supporters we’ve had the honor to know, for making this zine possible.
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Let’s Talk: Feminist Communication…
With the full sub-title “Feminist Communication for Radicalizing Sex, Consent, & Interpersonal Dynamics,” “Let’s Talk” is a helpful zine exploring the connections between feminist communication, consent, interpersonal dynamics, and healing from abuse. Its focus on how we communicate with each other makes it worth reading, even for those already familiar with concepts of consent. It’s written in an engaging way and includes valuable information on gendered differences in communication, communicating boundaries and triggers, and consent. There’s also a number of activities aimed an encouraging further discussion and reflection.
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Blackout is a personal/memoir zine about memory and trauma.
“a memoir-fragment zine” Fragments of growing up poor, being hungry, working cornfields at age 13, physical abuse, needing to be the “sane” one, and the difficulty of creating a coherent memory out of the moments. the difficulty of moving in life. panic, self-sabotage, creative mania. imagination and memory. So beatuiful and dark. – Cindy Crabb
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Stunned Lungs
Stunned Lungs is a poetry zine — Poems about sex, anxiety, class & poverty, family, illness, grief, hair-pulling, dogs, bodies & gender, street harassment, etc, etc.
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If you have ever read the poet Shannon Olds, you know how poetry can tell a story stronger than a story itself. That’s what this zine is like. If you like poetry at all, you should get this. It is amazing. The poems tell a story of their mothers home a feeling of vertigo and suffocation; a story of body and sex, and such deep everything you really must read it. – Cindy Crabb
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another beautiful haunting poetry zine from Tara, with poems about love and bruises, annihilation and jellyfish, the last desperate thing we did. With a beautiful block print cover, each one hand printed and sewn. – Cindy Crabb
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Yo soy una Mexicana and I write a personal/political zine. [Skinned Heart Zine is a] Personal Political Mexicana perspective zine dealing with issues such as mental health, health, abusive relationships, race issues, sexual abuse, and generally living and learning.
Well it is my zine, so I like it because it allows me to connect with other like minded people in the world struggling with the same things that I struggling with.
“ The power of female friendships and support; fallouts and exploring the causes; sexism and wanting to learn from the collective pain and miscommunications; being a radical feminist in denial of the abusive relationship she was in; the loss of a few white friends; gardening; “I think a lot about punk and activism and the impression that each of those communities have left on me. I think about how much I have learned about people and communication.I think about how much my friends mean to me and how much they have meant to me. I can’t imagine who I would have been if I had not come into contact with these people… I started to forget what I was all about. I really lost a sense of my own culture, my sense of Browness, and I forgot how to connect with people who weren’t punks…” ” – Cindy Crabb
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Skinned Heart Quatro
About recovering from an emotionally and physically abusive relationship – some of the details of it. I am always so proud when people have the ability to write about what exactly was the abuse, because emotional abuse is so commonly not recognized when we’re in it, and it can really help to see other people’s experiences – to be able to say “yes! That is what it was like for me too!” And it is also so good to read about her becoming herself again – learning to have confidence, taking care of herself, her current healthy relationship, still caring about the world and people.
Also about Assimilation and Resistance, living away from her family and longing for her cultural roots (living in Seattle instead of the South West), family history and that feeling of living in dual realities, and assimilation being hard to stop. – Cindy Crabb
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Skinned Heart Cinco
A small issue dealing with dark mania and rapid cycling, trying to remember the path out of the self-destructive feelings.- Cindy Crabb
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Skinned Heart Numero Seis
This issue is about her relationship with her dad, the similarities and difference between them, and how her life has been influenced by his drug addiction and his on again off again incarceration. It includes a critique of racism and the prison industrial complex and who is legitimized in activist circles as “political prisoners” when every imprisonment is political. Reflections on how, despite the racism, sexism and homophobia that exists in punk, punk and anarchism have provided a way in to finding connection to other radical people of color, and other people who work on developing politicized language and action around racism.- Cindy Crabb
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Resistance is Fertile!!! A brilliant zine by Kriti Sharma about creating an ethics of love, a livable world, a yes in creation response with each other (based on Sarah Lucia Hoagland’s Lesbian Ethics).
Also see this political education agenda for an idea of how to use this magic in your community!
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Voices from the Friction Lines
As part of the DIY series at Charis Books and More, the oldest feminist bookstore in the Southeast, a half-dozen brilliant activists, thinkers and artists created a zine to respond to the literal and metaphorical drought that our planet, progressive movements, and our bodies are suffering. This zine provides resources towards wholeness, a spell, a word-search, do it yourself interviews for elders and young folks, poetry, a recipie and beautiful artwork. Defying the stories about scarcity all around us, this abundance of joy was created in only 2 hours.
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OutLaw Vision: Reclaiming, Truth, Power and Justice For Ourselves
A zine about responding to violence without reaffirming the biases of the law created in ONE HOUR (!!!!) by participants in an UBUNTU workshop at the Allied Media Conference. This zine includes strategies for response, examples of how people are organizing for transformative justice, a review of a one woman show, vision maps, an interactive advice column and more!
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This zine is a compilation of student poems and prose pieces in conversation with Paul Beatty’s The White Boy Shuffle. Remixing the poems in main character Gunnar Kaufman’s poetry collection Watermelanin, the students examined their own relationships to racism, gender, family, class, oppression and freedom. This edition also includes literary readings of each poem by fellow students and photos of the poets performing their pieces for an unsuspecting audience of bus-riders. This zine is highly recommended as a teaching tool for any class reading Beatty’s important work.
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This poetry ‘zine created by POMK is a prelude to the website of the same name suchafuckingproblem.blogspot.com. Full of irony, rage and social critique this zine calls out assimilationist pressure, a culture of silence around sexual violence and apathy of all kinds.
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S.exual E.xperience X.posed
This ‘zine presents a diverse array of sexual experiences from the point of view of female and women-identified individuals. The content of this ‘zine is specifically for grown folks, and the author hopes that this publication will find its way to women’s organizations, rape crisis centers and women’s shelters to send the message that we should all be able to tell our sexual stories without shame!
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Double Conciousness
This ‘zine by Michelle Oyeka provides a contemporary exercise in “double-consciousness” a term coined by W.E.B. DuBois’s in 1903 to explain the difficult, but important position of people of african descent in the Americas. Oyeka uses this concept to embrace her experience as the daughter of Nigerian immigrants, immersed in African-American culture and to create an aesthetic in which multiple views are valued. Oyeka’s zine features guest pages by Elisabeth Michel and Stephanie Darand.
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Black Leaders: Misleading the Black Community
This ‘zine by Jade Miller critiques the tactics of conservative black leaders and uses the work of figures as varied as Aaron McGruder and Barack Obama to imagine what effective black leadership could look like. This is a useful conversation starter for conversations about the 2008 national and local elections.
This ‘zine created by a team of pre-medical students of color seeks to examine and uncover the health disparities experienced by people of color in the United States. Including pieces on the significance of race and genomics in contemporary healthcare, the immigrant heathcare debate as well as disturbing facts and useful remedies, this publication seeks to infect the minds of its readers towards a transformation of the medical field.
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Download this handy-dandy self-explanatory zine by Jaime Danehey to learn or teach someone to write in cursive. Hear tell they’re not teaching this in school anymore. Keep writing!
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My Name is Me and Keeping it real
“My Name is Me” and “Keeping It Real” were both created by a multicultural group of women who respond to sexual violence in their everyday work in communities of color in consecutive 90 minute workshops at the CARE Annual Multicultural Gathering. Download these publications and open yourself to the range of knowledge and energy these nurses, rape crisis responders, teachers, filmakers, advocates, students, counselors and activists have shared!
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Hope and Vision The Persuit of Happiness in Times of Crisis
created at the Miami Workers Center, Miami FL
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Co/modified Bodies: A Collaborative Zine About Transformation
Created at University of North Carolina, Greensboro
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MPressed The YESPP! We Can Edition
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Gender Agenda Michaelmas 2014 BAD
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A zine about responsibility and intent in anarchist social circles. Plus fun illustrations. 12 pages.
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Anarchist ideas are not dead things, to be viewed as a logical conclusion of certain ideas of justice, equality or “humanity.” There is no logical series, no precise and irrefutable argument that must convince a rational person.
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Call for a new radical networking journal based on (Dis)Connection.
Pilot issue which includes a call for submissions, South Side ARA Anti-Fascist Scene Report, Combat Emasculation of M.L. King by Mondo we Langa, a Three Sisters Companion Planting tutorial, and information on political prisoner Tsutomu Shirosaki.
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Anti-Drug Mun Meetz His Match Drug Duel Comix
Apparently, part of this comix zine I put up elsewhere got censored, likely due to politically incorrect content. When I can, I will put up the last 4 pages of the zine.
But for now, you get a look at the best part of the work, with an ending that you get to guess at for now!
He he he!
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…to the shower of my heart.
The second in a series of anarchist personal ads.
This is for my friend Bobby and five anarchists in Cleveland.
from the Institute Experimental Freedom / Liam Sionnach
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rob’s revolting #2 eugene – city of doom!
this is a text-only revision of a zine i made in the winter of 2009, telling of my crash-and-burn after being released from prison.
not a happy tale, but things have only gotten worse since then. i do not recognize the optimistic person who wrote this – thinking it would be the first step in a healing process that would enable him to once again feel like part of a revolutionary movement.
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First published in 2010 this zine is composed of six handwritten letters addressed to unnamed recipients on a variety of topics ranging from Machiavelli and loneliness to Christianity and nature to addiction and unhealthy relationships to anarchy and nihilism to animals at the zoo to love and friendship.
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This is in large part a personal zine with letters reflecting on the past year, which ended up being transitional in nature for many of our authors. There was job loss, fires, relationships endings, and a general sense of hardship to overcome.
The zine also includes some winter recipes for chili, soup and vindaloo. Some DIY gift ideas, and radical christmas carols.
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Ruckus UW Seattle Disorientation 2011
This is the Ruckus (dis)orientation guide to the University of Washington. It is an inversion of college orientation guides: it orients you about communities and cool activities around UW, and the things that are actually useful to know. It disorients you from the university administration’s intended plan to sell you an alienated mass-production education while draining you like the capitalist vampires they are. We made this because we feel it took years for us discover many great things around this campus; so we’ll pass along the results from years of accidents and serendipity.
Includes articles on survival, campus organizing, the Seattle music scene, polyamory, consent, tuition hikes, anti-Sodexo sit-ins, the Canadian tar sands, poverty, Joe Hill, unions, Seattle newspapers, DIY publishing, anti-sweatshop organizing, El Salvador, the School of the Americas, Decolonize/Occupy Seattle, and a community calendar.
Ruckus is an independent newspaper for the University of Washington community by the Ruckus Collective. We are for participatory democracy, social justice, collective liberation, and resistance to killing the planet.
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Carcass in Our Heads, The A Mic Check
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-Contribution #1 by Pam Troglodytes (the meaning of life)
-A Question of Violence
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Do You Suffer From Alienation?
from Autonomy//253 Distro
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Collaged with love for you by Liberty
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resist to exist
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Community Struggle – Empowerment
Stories & strategies of survival.
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Fighting Back: Self Defense for Women and Girls
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Thoughts About Community Support Around Intimate Violence
Thoughts About Community Support Around Intimate Violence
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Tiqqun – Theses on the Terrible Community
Everyone knows the terrible communities, having spent time in them or being within them still because they are always stronger than the others. And because of that one always stays, in part – and parts at the same time. Family, school, work, and prison are the classic faces of this form of contemporary hell. But they are less interesting as they belong to an old form of market evolution and only presently survive. On the contrary, there are the terrible communities which struggle against the existing state of things that are at one and the same time attractive and better than “this world.” And at the same time their way of being closer to the truth – and therefore to joy – moves them away from freedom more than anything else.
The question we must answer in a final manner is of a more ethical than political nature because the classic political forms and their categories fit us like our childhood clothing. The question is to know if we prefer the possibility of an unknown danger to the certainty of a present pain. That is to say if we want to continue to live and speak in agreement (dissident perhaps, but always in agreement) with what has been done so far – and thus with the terrible communities – or, if we want to question that small portion of our desire that the culture has not already infested in its mess, to try – in the name of an original happiness – a different path.
This text was conceived as a contribution to that other voyage.
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How To Put Together Your Own Consent Workshop
The title of this zine, How To Put Together Your Own Participatory, Community-specific, Radical Consent Workshop, is pretty straightforward and a great description of the zine’s contents. In addition to the general theme of how to put together a workshop on consent, the zine also provides tips on facilitation, space and accessibility, and additional resources. The bulk of the zine is an outline with ideas on what to say, activities to do, and materials to include.
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Toolkits and personal stories of winning
Start Something Fierce: A Young Woman`s Guide to Grassroots Organizing – 2nd Edition
Do you want to make a difference in your community and take action in your own life? Do you want to start something fierce? With the help of activists and change-makers from across the country, we’ve put this zine together for young women who want to organize, take action, and change the world.
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Native Youth Sexual Health Network
Through our work at the Native Youth Sexual Health Network across North America and during this process we have come to understand that our expressions of ideas and emotions are so much more complex and beautiful than even English allows us to show. Films, photos, spoken word, poetry, painting and storytelling – all are here and create a connected picture of Indigenous women’s leadership on this land. They speak about traditional roles before colonization began, how it continues and the creative ways we are finding to understand and implement those roles now – something we feel is absolutely central to addressing the challenges we face as Indigenous peoples.
This publication is part of a larger collaborative project called Indigenous Young Women: Speaking Our Truths, Building Our Strengths.
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I Am Here: A compilation of girls’ and young women’s experiences and thoughts on immigration
Girls and young women voice their experiences and thoughts on immigration on their own terms; tell their own stories and write about what matters to them.
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Our Communities, Our Words: Stepping Up for Racialized Girls’ Empowerment
Our Communities, Our Words, simply put, is the documentation of the best practices, reflections on programming, stories and experiences that have been shared by our Community Colleagues who are working for and with racialized girls and young women. The intention of this guide is to share frameworks, tools, and resources to support programming, and address the needs and experiences of the racialized girls and young women we work with.
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Start Something Fierce: A Young Woman’s Guide to Grassroots Organizing
Do you want to start a project? Organize an event? This zine introduces the key concepts from young women who have done it themselves. Get information on topics like collaboration, leadership styles, fundraising, anti-oppression organizing, evaluation, communications, and growing your project. In addition, there are also inspiring stories, tips and resources!
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Zine Northern Pride and Women’s Power: Collaborating for girls’ empowerment
A zine by, for and about young women living in the North of Canada.
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A collection of stories, art and profiles from and by (mostly canadian) young women of colour who work it.This zine consists of a variety of stories, art, and profiles from and by young women of colour, which shows how growing up in the Canadian diaspora can be HARD and how we deal with it. The goal of this zine was to celebrate racialized girls and young women but you do it yourself. In your art, in your communities, in your activism, in your cooking, with your grandma, in your languages. We thrive just by living on and by moving on.
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Get started in video, photography, radio and interviewing, cyber activism, hip-hop, spoken word and poetry!
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Zine Step It Up: The Young Women’s Guide to Influencing Public PolicyThis zine introduces the policy process and gives ideas for how to influence public policy at the municipal, provincial and national levels. Packed with information and inspiring stories, this zine is part of a Toolkit Series to help girls and young women take action on the issues that matter to them the most. Download zine pdf format (6.85 MB) This zine is designed to be printed out 2-sided, on legal sized (8.5×14) paper.
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Look Closer: Girls and young women taking action against poverty
Think youth today are inactive and apathetic? Think again!
Look Closer! celebrates girls and young women who are changing the world.
This comic book zine was a part of the 2007 National Day of Action awareness raising campaign.
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Make your dream a reality! This zine is a youth-friendly guide to learning the basics of community organizing. From Dreams to Action includes inspiring stories from other young organizers, as well as tips on fundraising, networking, evaluation, strategy, communications and links to other amazing resources
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Sex Critical
As the title suggests, a zine about being sexually dysfunctional whilst participating in sex-positive queer spaces. Written by four queers, this zine discusses feeling excluded from sex-positive spaces, the limits of consent, not feeling queer ‘enough’, bad sex and sad sex.
Some things about us (from the introduction):
We are a group of four white queers, and – despite differing gender identities – were all assigned female at birth and are now usually cis-female passing. We are all currently physically non-disabled, in our 20s, south London-based, attracted to people of various genders, have had shitty abusive relationships (mostly but not exclusively with men), are currently suffering or have previously suffered from various mental health problems, love cats.
Content note: these pieces include subjects such as rape, sexual assault and coercion, abusive relationships, drug use, self-harm, anxiety and depression. The writing also reflects cisnormativity and internalised homophobia and misogyny. Content notes have also been added to individual pieces where necessary.
Word-processed, 56 pages, black & white. Includes some hand-drawn pictures of cats!
The follow-up to ‘FUCKED: on being sexually dysfunctional in sex-positive queer scenes’!
More writings on being sexually dysfunctional whilst participating in sex-positive queer spaces. We took contributions from around the world to put together 2FURIOUS and this zine contains writings from fifteen different authors. It includes responses to the first zine and the workshops we’ve run since its publication, and also discusses similar topics as before: feeling excluded from sex-positive spaces, the limits of consent, not feeling queer ‘enough’, bad sex and sad sex.
Content note: these pieces include subjects such as rape, sexual assault and coercion, abusive relationships, disordered eating and mental health issues. The writings reflect internalised homophobia and misogyny.
A5 size with 40 pages, black & white copy and hand-drawn pictures of cats!
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this is about more than who we fuck (and who fucks us)
This zine was born out of one part desire for a writing project and one part desire for more writing to be out there about the place of personal relationships in the struggle (against authority, oppression, domination…). The things that destroy us aren’t just the cops and the prisons, but the models of relationships that are implicit, taken for granted and sap us of our ability to imagine something different. These writings, in different ways, attempt to lay out some glimpses into fights against the things the writers were taught about sex, love and close relationships
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This is about more than who we fuck (and who we don’t) #2 REAL
We said before that this zine was born partly out of our desire for more writing to be out there about the place of personal relationships in the struggle (against authority, oppression, domination, and all the bullshit). I think the same holds true this time around. We’re still fighting against all the things we’ve been taught about relationships, and we’re still figuring out hot to have radically different kinds of relationships than those we were taught to desire, and still figuring out how to bring politics into our relationships and relationships into our politics, and this zine is just a few people writing about that fight.
Please email us with thoughts, comments, etc.
morethanfckng@gmail.com
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Contributions made in response to the prompt “How have our histories of abuse inflected our anarchist practice?”
-may be triggering.
-anonymous; keep it secret, keep it safe!
-title & quotes from Delete Me, I’m So Ugly. ❤
-not imposed–print as booklet.
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The anarchist world and feeling okay to be fucked
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Sex Positive
Radical Slut Dis-covery: building and re-building our sexual selves
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WHORECORE Fucking Queer and Getting Paid
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Sex Negative
Negative feminism, anti-social queer theory and the politics of hope
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Delete me, I’m so ugly | New text on Madness & Despair
Forty years ago, the Socialist Patients Collective, embarked on a project to turn illness into a weapon. To hold on to the fear and paranoia that dresses our despair in its most vibrant colors; to claim that experience as valid, and as the very condition on which modern capitalism reduces sense, claim bodies as its subjects, and functions to generalize alienation. The gun followed shortly.
Three stories separated by almost a century links the terror of woman. In Daldry’s The Hours, Mrs. Dalloway lives and continues to reveal the tragedy of our world. There is nothing comforting that calls on the bodies marked dysfunctional to restrict their desire toward death. The body wants to fall, to submerge, to cough, to inhale the dark liquid and dissolve.
The house wife goes on strike, alone, acting as does the marginal factory or service worker. Stealing no longer keeps despair at bay; cheating can’t bring back the years of doomed performances ahead. The future is always bleak. Addiction, a slow death. She drowns her children, she murders herself. She interrupts, in the most grotesque and elementary form, reproduction, and she assaults the meaning of this world. Minus one.
Madness, addiction, dysfunctional positionalities. I am terrified by the pen mark of the doctor, and of the indifference afforded to me by the consciously depressed. I want to make sense of it, but I can’t. My texts, my speech, constantly acquiesce to the demand for rational discourse, molds into another author-function—disciplining her, and making room for me, and repeating the operation that gives encouragement to others who want to play with power. My experience drifting through twelve step programs will always remind me of a sense that there are those who want to hurt us, and then repair us. Who want to manage our despair, and reproduce the addicted-rock-bottom-body, the broken-mad-body, as a petri dish on which to make a different functional subject. While it’s important not to equate madness with addiction, the scandal of these dysfunctional subjects is nevertheless similar. The sadness provoked by the realization that these experiences find analogous homes in what could be called an emotional commons requires unblinking eyes, and, in the days we can get out of bed, collective self-organization of care. Should it surprise anyone that this “care” has come and will come again in the form of “force?” We chose to publish Delete Me, I’m so Ugly in order to contribute to a reading of our times through the lens of despair, to hone in on the intelligence of madness, and to continue to ask “Of what does our congregation consist?”
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Sex Militant
DANGEROUS SPACES: Violent Resistance, Self-Defense, and Insurrectional Struggle Against Gender
A collection of communiques and theory surrounding issues of women’s and queer violence, self-defense, and revenge.
Untorelli Press untorelli (at) riseup.net untorellipress.noblogs.org
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Toward The Queerest Insurrection
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Rapists, part 4 of the Enemies poster series from the Institute Experimental Freedom
From the opening paragraph:
THE RAPIST IS NOT A DEVIANT. RAPE IS THE NORM. RAPE IS NOT A CRIME OF PASSION; IT IS QUITE POSSIBLY PASSION’S FARTHEST OPPOSITE. PASSION’S CRIME PAR EXCELLENCE IS MURDER; WE MURDER FOR HATE OR FOR LOVE. MURDER IS AN ACT THAT VIOLATES “THE RIGHT TO LIFE” THAT IS PROMISED BY GOVERNMENTS; ITS LOGICAL CONCLUSION IS “PURE MURDER,” A VIOLENCE WITHOUT OBJECT. RAPE HAS ONLY ITS OBJECT. RAPE’S LOGICAL CONCUSSION IS “PURE DISTANCE.” THE RAPIST DOES NOT HATE OR LOVE ITS OBJECT; THE RAPIST ONLY FEELS DISTANCE. AT LEAST PERVERTS HAVE THEIR IMAGINATION TO FEEL AT HOME WITH. RAPISTS ARE ALONE EVEN WHEN THEY ARE WITH THEIR THOUGHT. THEY ARE THE SADDEST CREATURES TO WALK THIS EARTH.
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The second zine compiled by Austin ladies’ group B.E.T.C.H. (Beautiful, Educated Thunder Cunts from Hell). This issue is about navigating space. Not outer space, but the space we already occupy and move through everyday. How we are perceived in this space and how we learn to live in it. Contents range from essays and letters, to poetry and comics.
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Laid Stuff I wish I’d known about SEX before I started having it
Info on masturbation, your first time, sex feeling good and how it doesn’t always feel good, learning to communicate, self image, saying no, being queer, and more. Tons of stuff piled into this tiny little zine.- Cindy Crabb
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Bloodletter
One of the very best zines I’ve read in years. April Mei puts to words so elequantly things I’ve been trying to describe and make sense of for years – about growing up in and as a survivor of rape culture, learning to doubt her own reality, learning to read shock and horror as excitement, being trained to say “yes” and being so removed from your desires that you don’t know what your honest answer is. When does “can I” mean “whould you like this” and when does it mean “are you going to stop me?” What does consent mean when you grow up in this way.
And healing: fighting back, making it a goal to be around people who feel safe, dissociation and how do two people with histories of being manipulated sexually practice consent with eachother in the present. Totally haunting and beautiful. Everyone should read this zine.
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Books
“Rupture bravely captures the emotions of trauma, pleasure and recovery. This series of poems, divided into six parts, takes the reader through the author’s experiences of sexual violence, discovering her sense of self and relationships, and how she has started her journey toward healing. Although some of the poems are extremely difficult to read, Morrigan’s work serves as a way for others who are dealing with similar experiences to begin to articulate some of their own pain. In ‘divine responsibility’, Morrigan writes “self love is a divine responsibility / because the goddess Herself / makes no mistakes.” The juxtaposition of the empowerment expressed in some of the poems and the hurt in others underscores the nuanced struggle of living with a painful history.” —Shameless Magazine
“Rupture is a bold, honest, and thought-provoking collection of poems and short narrative writings on female embodiment, violence against women, sexuality, and feminism. Morrigan’s accessible language and intimate tone invite the reader to enter into her experiences, which range from harrowing to exhilarating. She encourages readers to appreciate the challenging journey of the woman in patriarchal culture who seeks to honour her feelings, desires, and powers and carve out a truly independent existence. Her book strikingly demonstrates that women’s right to self-determination continues to be a poorly protected one and is a work that would appeal to many women who similarly struggle to live outside of sexist conditioning and norms.” —Herizons Magazine
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Further Links
Survivor Support
- Support Zine – Cindy Crabb
- Apoyo (Spanish-language version of Support):
- Supporting a Survivor of Sexual Assault: a Primer (10 Steps)
- No! The Rape Documentary [film]
Affirmative consent
- Learning Good Consent
- (Safer sex and relationships zine, facilitators guides, curriculum, resources and sample agendas)
- Abuse is Not S/M and S/M is Not Abuse zine
Trauma and Recovery
- The Icarus Project: Emotional Trauma First Aid Handout
- Trauma Stewardship: An Everyday Guide to Caring for Self While Caring for Others by Connie Burk & Laura van Dernoot:
- Survivor’s Guide to Sex/Healing Sex by Ellen Bass,
- Trauma and Recovery by Judith Herman Lewis,
- Thriving in the Wake of Trauma: A Multicultural Guide by Thema Bryant-Davis,
- The Body Remembers: The Psychophysiology of Trauma and Trauma Treatment by Babette Rothschild,
- Waking the Tiger by Peter A Levine,
Burnout and self-care
- Resisting burnout with justice-doing The International Journal of Narrative Therapy and Community Work. (4) 27-45.
- Collective ethics as a path to resisting burnout
Community Empowerment
- Emotion Work, Feeling Rules, and Social Structure
- Building the Bonds of Attachment: Awakening Love in Deeply Troubled Children By Daniel A. Hughes
- Violence and abuse (optional parenting coaching for all families)
- Womens Self Defense #2 Stories & strategies of survival.
- Thoughts About Community Support Around Intimate Violence
Accountability Processes
- Calling IN: A Less Disposable Way of Holding Each Other Accountable
- Philly Stands up Portrait of Praxis: Anatomy of Accountability Kelly, Esteban Lance & Jenna Peters Golden (2010)
- As If They Were Human: A Different Take on Perpetrator Accountability
- What is the opposite of accountability (section from Community Accountability Within People of Color Progressive Movements by INCITE!)
- Shame, Realisation and Restoration: The Ethics of Restorative Practice, – Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy, Volume 27, Issue 3, pages 153– 162, September 2006
Workshops and trainings
- Break the Silence: How to Put Together Your Own Consent Workshop (Safer sex and relationships zine, facilitators guides, curriculum, resources and sample agendas)
- R3 collective: Anti-oppression and burnout
- AORTA collective workshops: Facilitators guides and trainings
- Philly Stands Up (2011) ‘Rehearsing Community Accountability’
- Vicky Reynolds: Witnessing Our Collective Ethics (2012) An Inquiry into Ally Work (2011) The problem with normal: A gift from queer theory (2011)
Community accountability, anti-oppression, intersectionality and allyship: Resources for counsellors, agencies and the interface between community accountability and services.
- Bay Area Transformative Justice Collective: Community Support Network
- A solidarity approach: The rhizome & messy inquiry. – Systemic Inquiry: Innovations in Reflexive Practice Research.
- The problem’s oppression not depression – Stay Solid! : A Radical Handbook for Youth.
- Doing Justice: A Witnessing Stance in Therapeutic Work Alongside Survivors of Torture and Political Violence – Studies in meaning 4: Constructivist perspectives on theory, practice, and social justice.
- Journal of Counselling and Psychotherapy, 47(1), 14-28. Everett, B., MacFarlane D., Reynolds, V., & Anderson, H. (2013)
- Lessons from self-organizing communities: ‘We were already a community and you put a roof over us’. – The International Journal of Narrative Therapy and Community Work, 2, 61-78.
- “Leaning in” as imperfect allies in community work. – Narrative and Conflict: Explorations in theory and practice, 1(1), 53-75.
- Bridging the worlds of therapy & activism: Intersections, tensions & affinities. – The International Journal of Narrative Therapy and Community Work. (4) 57-61.
- Hate Kills: A social justice response to “suicide”. – http://discoursesofprevention.com/post-symposium-activities/.
- The role of allies in anti-violence work. – Ending Violence Association of BC Newsletter. (2) 1-4
- Fluid and Imperfect Ally Positioning: Some Gifts of Queer Theory. – Context. Association for Family and Systemic Therapy, UK, 13-17.
- An ethic of resistance: Frontline worker as activist. – Women Making Waves19 (1), 5.
Activist Journeys 