Ending Violence

• Immediate Actions To Take: 
• Petitions To Sign
• Call your reps to Demand Action Against Gun Violence
• Call Your Reps To Support the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act of 2021
• Call Your Reps To Investigate the Capitol Police Response to the Jan 6th Coup Attempt
• Call Your Reps To Restore Funding To Services for Victims of Crime
• Call Your Reps To Support H.R. 40: Commission to Develop Reparations Proposals
• Support March For Our Lives Demands for the Biden-Harris Administration
• Work to bring awareness to the sexual violence perpetrated against people of color, particularly trans women of color by supporting the Trans Agenda for Liberation.
• Bolster Critical Care for Survivors of Sexual Assault — RAINN

• Organizations To Support + Follow: 
• ACLU
• Black Lives Matter
• Collective Action Safe Spaces (CASS)
• Everytown for Gun Safety
• Families Belong Together
• GEMS
• March For Our Lives
• Moms Demand Action
• National Domestic Workers Alliance (NDWA)
• RAINN
• The Okra Project
• The Trevor Project
• TIME’S UP Legal Defense Fund

• Educate Yourself + Keep Showing Up:
• Note: Resources cover topics including gun violence, mental health, suicide prevention, domestic violence, sexual assault, sex and human trafficking, abolition of police, prisons, and ICE, etc. 
• Articles —
• #MeToo Masculinity, Male Privilege, + Consent Discussion Guide — #MeToo
• A Family Cries 'Justice for Hannah.' Will Its Rural Town Listen? by Jack Healy — NYTimes
• Abolition 101: Abolitionist Reading Database
• Anti-Racism Resources
• #BlackTransLivesMatter Actions + Resources for Solidarity
• Gun Violence in America — Everytown for Gun Safety 
• How We Can End Violence Against Trains Women of Color by Raquel Willis — Out Magazine 
• Learn + Explore Resources — Moms Demand Action
• Methodical Killing: Losing Trans Film Characters Devalues Them IRL by Eleven Groothuis — Bitch Media
• Pretty Girls Make Graves: How Female Suicide Became a Cultural Obsession by D.W. Anselmo — Bitch Media
• The Combahee River Collective Statement 
• When Black Lives Matter, Black Trans People Must Be Freed From Discrimination and Violence by Tiq Milan — NBC 

• Books —
• Abolition. Feminism. Now. by Angela Y. Davis, Gina Dent, Erica Meiners, and Beth Richie
• Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Davis
• Assata: An Autobiography by Assata Shakur
• Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom by Derecka Purnell
• Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement edited by Ejeris Dixon and Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
• Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex edited by Eric A. Stanley and Nat Smith
• Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
• Change Everything: Racial Capitalism and the Case for Abolition by Ruth Wilson Gilmore edited by Naomi Murakawa
• Defund Fear: Safety without Policing, Prisons, and Punishment by Zach Norris
• Fight Like a Mother: How a Grassroots Movement Took On The Gun Lobby and Why Women Will Change the World by Shannon Watts
• Fraternity Gang Rape: Sex, Brotherhood, and Privilege on Campus by Peggy Reeves Sanday 
• Freedom Is a Constant Struggle by Angela Y. Davis
• Girls Like Us: Fighting For a World Where Girls Are Not For Sale by Rachel Lloyd
• Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California by Ruth Wilson Gilmore
• Gunfight: The Battle Over the Right to Bear Arms in America by Adam Winkler 
• How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
• If They Come in The Morning: Voices of Resistance edited by Angela Y. Davis
• Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color by Andrea J. Ritchie edited by Angela Y. Davis
• KILLING HOPE: U.S. MILITARY AND C.I.A. INTERVENTIONS SINCE WORLD WAR II by William Blum
• Nobody: Casualties of America's War on the Vulnerable, from Ferguson to Flint and Beyond by Marc Lamont Hill
• Not That Bad: Dispatches From Rape Culture by Roxane Gay
• Prison By Any Other Name: The Harmful Consequences of Popular Reforms by Maya Schenwar and Victoria Law
• Private Guns, Public Health by David Hemenway  
• Queer (In)Justice: The Criminalization of LGBT People in the United States by Joey L. Mogul, Andrea J. Ritchie, and Kay Whitlock
• Speaking Truth to Power by Anita Hill 
• The Color Purple by Alice Walker 
• The End of Policing by Alex Vitale
• The First Civil Right: How Liberals Built Prison America by Naomi Murakawa
• The Gun Debate: What Everyone Needs to Know by Philip J. Cook and Kristin A. Goss 
• The Gunning of America: Business and Making of American Gun Culture by Pamela Haag 
• The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
• We Are Not Here to Be Bystanders: A Memoir of Love and Resistance by Linda Sarsour
• We Do This 'Til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice by Mariame Kaba
• We Still Here: Pandemic, Policing, Protest, and Possibility by Marc Lamont Hill
• Yes Means Yes: Visions of Female Sexual Power + A World Without Rape by Jessica Valenti + Jaclyn Friedman 

• Watch —
• 13th — HBO
• 13 Reasons Why — Netflix
• Big Little Lies — HBO
• Disclosure Doc — Netflix
• Handmaid's Tale — Hulu
• Icebox — HBO
• I May Destroy You — HBO
• Just Mercy — Netflix
• Ken Burns: The Central Park Five
• Leaving Neverland — HBO
• Selma — Netflix
• Seven Pounds — Netflix 
• Surviving R. Kelly — Netflix
• The Hate U Give — Hulu
• The True Cost — Free Online
• When They See Us — Netflix 

NOTE: Our focus areas are informed by community input. If there is an issue you'd like to see included or would like to share input, please email us at community@the-outrage.com with questions, comments, or concerns on our 2021 focus areas. We'd love to hear from you. 

This is an incomplete and growing list. Last updated Nov 1, 2021.