Black Study
A zine from Mariame Kaba that situates study itself as an act of defiance, remembrance and freedom work by tracing the enduring legacy of David Walker’s An Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World (1829), a radical pamphlet calling for Black resistance, self-determination, and liberation.
Transformative Justice Under Authoritarianism Zine — Volume 1: YoNoFui
A zine on transnational authoritarian collaborations and abolitionist resistance — available in English and Spanish. The zine summarizes a conversation with Yo No Fui, an abolitionist and antifascist collective in Argentina, that took place during Interrupting Criminalization’s Transformative Justice Under Authoritarianism webinar series.
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.
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 and resource 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. There are steps that you can take to clean up your digital presence so that it’s more difficult for people to hack your accounts or track down information about you. Available in Spanish.
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.
Criminalizing Librarians
Most often, attacks on libraries focus on books—various interest groups have tried to remove a wide range of books from library shelves. Sometimes, though, librarians who take the egalitarian mission of the library seriously have also become targets of their communities or of the state.
Arrested at the Library
Read, print, and share Interrupting Criminalization’s new zine. Readers will learn about the history of police in libraries, tales of librarians who have been targeted by law enforcement and those that have resisted policing the stacks. With books, libraries, and library patrons under threat, explore histories of resistance to policing inside libraries and the calls to action going out today.
Abolition and the State: Responses Vol. 3
This is the third ‘zine in a series responding to or engaging with questions relating to the role of the state in abolitionist futures. This ‘zine features a lightly edited transcript of a presentation given by academic, activist, writer Nazan Üstündağ.
Painting the Ocean & the Sky
A resource for anyone working to build collective community-based, non-carceral responses to crisis. This piece helps refine some necessary language that current abolitionist activists and organizers are using in this work, and helps us to make critical distinctions and ask ourselves critical questions as we build and learn from our work together.
A Riot at the United Nations
A riot broke out at the United Nations in February of 1961. Protestors including Maya Angelou, Mae Mallory, LeRoi Jones, and many more demanded justice for the U.S. sanctioned murder of Patrice Lumumba. This zine from Mariame Kaba tells the story of this protest.
Abolitionist Bystander Intervention & De-escalation
A pocket zine on bystander intervention and de-escalation, as an abolitionist practice for dealing with harm or potential harm in your community without involving the police.