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:

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
I f 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.