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Self Defense Starter Kit – Download
It’s easy to freeze up in a tense or dangerous situation. We made the Self Defense Starter Kit because it has happened to us: we were threatened and we froze up—we didn’t know how to react, and that made us vulnerable in a bad moment. We wanted to know what to do if it ever happened again.
We also made this project because verbal harassment and physical hate crime against visible minorities, religious minorities, women, and LGBTQ people spiked dramatically following the US presidential election. Hate crimes are not only common—they also commonly go unreported.
We’ve filled the Self Defense Starter Kit with eight essential self defense techniques because we want you to feel safe, secure, and equipped. Your body and your voice are super powerful tools! You do have the ability to use them, and you deserve to have these skills in your everyday toolkit.
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Fighting Back: Self Defense for Women and Girls
this is a onesheet zine that has basic advice about self-defense. body language, verbal strategies, fighting moves. It’s a good guide for starting to do self-defense with your friends.
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Stories & strategies of survival.
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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.
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Bodyhammer: Tactics and Self-Defense for the Modern Protestor – Download
Bodyhammer is heavily influenced by the White Overalls movements in Europe and their creative use of body armor to neutralize the so-called “less lethal” weapons used by police to stop protests. The zine (it’s really more of a packet than a zine) looks at shield varieties and construction, shield deployment, helmets, body armor, group movement, and shield walls and formations.
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Activist Journeys 