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Recent years have seen an explosion of protest against police brutality and repression. Among activists, journalists and politicians, the conversa…

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You're the Only One I've Told: The Stories Behind Abortion

"Moving, multifaceted, and deeply human...as eye-opening as it is compelling” —Cecile Richards, author of Make Trouble

At a time where reproductive rights are at risk, these vital stories of diverse…

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Make It Count: My Fight to Become the First Transgender Olympic Runner

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"Prisons Make Us Safer": And 20 Other Myths about Mass Incarceration

An accessible guide for activists, educators, and all who are interested in understanding how the prison system oppresses communities and harms individuals

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We Do This 'til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice

"Organizing is both science and art. It is thinking through a vision, a strategy, and then figuring out who your targets are, always being concerned about power, always being concerned about how you'r…

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"Jarvious Cotton's great-great-grandfather could not vote as a slave. His great-grandfather was beaten to death by the Klu Klux Klan for attempting to vote. His grandfather was prevented from voting b…

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Are Prisons Obsolete?

With her characteristic brilliance, grace and radical audacity, Angela Y. Davis has put the case for the latest abolition movement in American life: the abolition of the prison. As she quite correctly…

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Abolition Democracy: Beyond Prisons, Torture, and Empire

Revelations about U.S policies and practices of torture and abuse have captured headlines ever since the breaking of the Abu Ghraib prison story in April 2004. Since then, a debate has raged regarding…

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Fallen Thorns (Fallen Thorns, #1)

‘A great death is in the air.’

Arlo is lost. He thought he had everything figured out. Go to university, fall in love, get a job.
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White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color

This explosive book of history and cultural criticism argues that white feminism has been a weapon of white supremacy and patriarchy deployed against Black and Indigenous women and all colonized women…

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Monsters and mortals, rejoice! Acheron is back . . .

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