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
- Transform Harm
- The Trevor Project
- The Trigger 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
- Abolition for the People: The Movement for a Future Without Policing & Prisons edited by Colin Kaepernick
- 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
- Disarm, Defund, Dismantle: Police Abolition in Canada edited by Shiri Pasternak, Kevin Walby, and Abby Stadnyk
- 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
- Know My Name: A Memoir by Chanel Miller
- 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
- Unbound: My Story of Liberation and the Birth of the Me Too Movement by Tarana Burke
- 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.