Mariame Kaba
Mariame Kaba is an organizer, educator, librarian/archivist, and prison industrial complex (PIC) abolitionist who is active in movements for racial, gender, and transformative justice. Kaba co-leads Interrupting Criminalization, an organization she co-founded with Andrea Ritchie in 2018. She has co-founded multiple organizations and projects over the years including Project NIA, We Charge Genocide, the Chicago Freedom School, the Chicago Taskforce on Violence against Girls and Young Women, Chicago Alliance to Free Marissa Alexander (now Love & Protect), Just Practice Collaborative, Survived & Punished, Sojourners for Justice Press and For the People Lefitist Library Project. Kaba is the author of the New York Times Bestseller We Do This 'Til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice (Haymarket Books, 2021) & most recently Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care with Kelly Hayes (Haymarket, 2023) among several other books that offer support and tools for repair, transformation, and moving toward a future without incarceration and policing.
Blog
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Sojourners for Justice
Big news! We're honored to be working with Mariame Kaba and Neta Bomani to bring Sojourners for Justice into the world!
Sojourners for Justice Press is a micro press that opens its platform to people working experimentally with print based media, publishing short form and ephemeral zines, pamphlets, and booklets that engage do-it-yourself, black feminist, and abolitionist philosophies.
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Abolitionist Starter Kit
Abolitionist Starter Kit: five books by acclaimed abolitionist organizers and thinkers to help sharpen our analysis, ground our strategy, and deepen our commitment to collective liberation.
Books
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Prisons Must Fall
by Jane Ball and Mariame Kaba -
Abolition and Social Work
Edited by Mimi E. Kim, Cameron Rasmussen, et al. -
How to Abolish Prisons
by Rachel Herzing and Justin Piché -
A Riot at the United Nations
by Mariame Kaba -
Lo que haremos hasta que nos liberemos
by Mariame Kaba
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Lifting As They Climbed
by Mariame Kaba and Essence McDowell -
Sojourners for Justice Press Manifesto
by Neta Bomani and Mariame Kaba -
Let This Radicalize You
by Kelly Hayes and Mariame Kaba -
Let This Radicalize You Workbook
by Kelly Hayes and Mariame Kaba -
Our Girl Tuesday
by Tara Betts, Tempest Hazel, et al.
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See You Soon
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We Do This 'Til We Free Us
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Missing Daddy
by Mariame Kaba