Abolitionist Starter Kit!

Thinking about policing and safety? Want to learn more about abolitionist visions and futures that fueled the 2020 Uprisings? Pick up this starter kit of 10 new books curated and donated by BMC evangelist Andrea J. Ritchie, most recently here in 2021, featuring many BMC alums (and hopefully future residents!), including:

• Rachel Herzing (also a 2021 resident!), How to Abolish Prisons: Lessons from the Movement Against Imprisonment ***
• Mariame Kaba, We Do This 'Til We Free Us
• Angela Y. Davis, Gina Dent, Erica Meiners, Beth E. Ritchie, Abolition. Feminism. Now.
• Andrea J. Ritchie and Mariame Kaba, No More Police: A Case for Abolition ***
• Derecka Purnell, Becoming Abolitionists
• Colin Kaepernick, ed., Abolition for the People
• Kay Whitlock and Nancy Heitzeg, Carceral Con
• Victoria Law and Maya Schenwar, Prison by Any Other Name
• Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Change Everything: Racial Capitalism and the Case for Abolition ***
• Robyn Maynard and Leanne Betamosake-Simpson, Rehearsals for Living

[*** = not yet released - Andrea promises to send these books to the winners as soon as they're out for publication]

Images: Book Covers of Abolition for the People, Prison by Any Other Name, How to Abolish Prisons, and Carceral Con. 

• Name : Andrea Ritchie