An Abolitionist's Handbook
12 Steps to Changing Yourself and the World
ISBN10: 1250272971
ISBN13: 9781250272973
Hardcover
288 Pages
$26.99
CA$35.99
In An Abolitionist's Handbook, Cullors charts a framework for how everyday activists can effectively fight for an abolitionist present and future. Filled with relatable pedagogy on the history of abolition, a reimagining of what reparations look like for Black lives and real-life anecdotes from Cullors, An Abolitionist's Handbook offers a bold, innovative, and humanistic approach to how to be a modern-day abolitionist. Cullors asks us to lead with love, fierce compassion, and precision.
In An Abolitionist's Handbook readers will learn how to:
- have courageous conversations
- move away from reaction and towards response
- take care of oneself while fighting for others
- turn inter-community conflict into a transformative action
- expand one’s imagination, think creatively, and find the courage to experiment
- make justice joyful
- practice active forgiveness
- make space for difficult feelings and honor mental health
- practice non-harm and cultivate compassion
- organize local and national governments to work towards abolition
- move away from cancel culture
An Abolitionist's Handbook is for those who are looking to reimagine a world where communities are treated with dignity, care and respect. It gives us permission to move away from cancel culture and into visioning change and healing.
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Praise for An Abolitionist's Handbook
"Recommended for all readers interested in social change activism, particularly prison reform and the defund-the-police movement."—Library Journal
"Her guidance on how to achieve personal and social transformation is enlightening. Readers will be inspired to take action."—Publishers Weekly
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Introduction
PRENTIS HEMPHILL
I met Patrisse many years ago around the same time I was introduced to abolition. I met her (her father, too) at a fundraiser for a mutual friend’s brother who had just recently...