BDNH Storytelling Project: Reclaiming the Narrative: Decriminalizing Pregnancy Through Policy and Advocacy
In this zine and audio story, a patient advocate who was central to passing the Reproductive Health Act (RHA) discusses the limits of legislative interventions in securing access to abortion care, and the importance of challenging criminalization at any stage of pregnancy. This story is part of the Beyond Do No Harm’s Storytelling Media Project.
BDNH Storytelling Project: A Question is an Interruption
In this zine and audio story, a medical student in California prevents security from being called on a patient's family member, emphasizing the importance of speaking up and asking questions. This story is part of the Beyond Do No Harm’s Storytelling Media Project.
BDNH Storytelling Project: Fighting Housing Injustice and Detention Through Medical Advocacy
In this zine and audio story, a primary care physician in New York shares a strategy she uses to advocate for patient care while organizing for housing equity and migrant justice. This story is part of the Beyond Do No Harm’s Storytelling Media Project.
BDNH Storytelling Project: The Right to Dignity: Securing Compassionate Release for Incarcerated People
In this zine and audio story, a physician in Georgia utilizes compassionate release as a strategy to advance care for in-custody patients. This story is part of the Beyond Do No Harm’s Storytelling Media Project.
BDNH Storytelling Project: Is it a Rule or is it a Law?
In this zine and audio story, a resident physician in Florida discusses the importance of pushing back against cruel rules and policies in hospitals that impact care for incarcerated patients. This story is part of the Beyond Do No Harm’s Storytelling Media Project.
BDNH Storytelling Project: When Healing Becomes Resistance: Interrupting HIV Criminalization
In this zine and audio story, an advocate and an attorney share an intimate story about the power of community and policy, and the role of health care providers in the movement to end HIV criminalization. This story is part of the Beyond Do No Harm’s Storytelling Media Project.
BDNH Storytelling Project: Listening, Resisting, Healing: HRNA's Fight Against Recriminalization in British Columbia
In this zine and audio story, a harm reduction nurse in Canada leads his community in a fight against Bill 34, which would re-criminalize public drug use. This story is part of the Beyond Do No Harm’s Storytelling Media Project.
BDNH Storytelling Project: On the Consequences of Policing Patient Behavior in the Hospital
In this zine and audio story, a physician at a community health center challenges the policing of his patients by offering a harm reduction-based approach to care. This story is part of the Beyond Do No Harm’s Storytelling Media Project.
BDNH Storytelling Project: Restorative Justice as an Alternative to Firing a Patient
In this zine and audio story, a physician in Massachusetts prevents a patient from being dismissed from his practice by implementing a restorative justice process. This story is part of the Beyond Do No Harm’s Storytelling Media Project.
Loving and Protecting Us
A resource for people interested in and working to develop abolitionist crisis response rooted in transformative justice. This offering aims to help demystify a few things about how we develop, think about, and create these organizations and formations, and how we sustain them.
How to Clean Up Copaganda
An online toolkit for journalists, communicators, and organizers responding to law enforcement disinformation. This virtual resource accompanies and expands on our “Don’t Be A Copagandist” series by providing tools for shifting coverage to counter copaganda.
How To Clean Up Copaganda Poster
Size 12x18” museum-quality poster made on thick matte paper. This poster, modeled after workplace safety posters that give advice on how to clean up vomit and other hazards, sums up ten key ways journalists and media makers can cut through authoritarian and pro-police propaganda.
Beyond Do No Harm Abolitionist Health Care “Back To School” Reading Guide
A “back to school” reading guide and resource list for people interested in learning more and supporting abolitionist health care workers and providers who are fighting criminalization of care.
Shaping Reality
Informational power establishes sustained, proactive community control over the facts and information that we need in order to struggle and survive, and that inform how we make sense of the world together, and the actions we take to shape our futures. Shaping Reality: Building Informational Power to Resist Authoritarianism lays out an essential framework and guiding questions for building community-controlled informational infrastructure.
Protest, Power, and the Violence Debate: A Zine
A zine on protest, power, and “violence” in social movements, adapted directly from Chapter 6 of the book Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care by Kelly Hayes and Mariame Kaba.
Digital Security & Doxxing Prevention Checklist
A checklist for people concerned about digital security and doxxing, whether you are a journalist or someone whose name or face appears in media or social media, compiled by Interrupting Criminalization.
A [short] History of U.S. Police & Tear Gas
A zine by Mariame Kaba that goes over some historical background about U.S. police and their use of tear gas, along with archival photos and documents from Kaba’s collection.
Block & Build
Inspired by “Block & Build” sheets circulating, Interrupting Criminalization offers an abolitionist take on strategic frameworks for fighting Right-wing, authoritarian, and fascist agendas and regimes.
Prisons Must Fall
Prisons Must Fall is a powerful children’s book showing the harm that prisons cause and exploring abolitionist solutions, such as meeting people's basic needs, restorative justice, and community support—seeds for a safe world.