Does punishment make us safer?

This collaborative work traces abolition feminism through women-of-color, queer, anti-capitalist, internationalist movement histories.

Mariame Kaba’s essays and interviews connect abolitionist organizing with the collective work of building conditions for safety and freedom.

No More Police reframes safety by taking it out of punishment infrastructure and into care, survivor support, and social redesign, advancing abolitionist feminist and transformative justice frameworks.

INCITE! centers women of color to connect interpersonal violence with policing, colonialism, militarism, and reproductive control.

Organizers share tools and experiences of transformative justice, addressing harm and accountability without relying on police or prisons.

Danielle Sered explores responses to serious violence that center survivors’ needs, require accountability, and pursue repair beyond prison.

Trans and queer accounts expose how policing and prisons enforce gender binaries, linking gender liberation with prison abolition.

Liat Ben-Moshe connects deinstitutionalization with prison abolition, challenging the claim that closing institutions caused mass incarceration.

A landmark collection by survivors, organizers, and community workers asking how social justice movements can confront intimate violence and build accountability without relying on police and prisons.

A drama film written and directed by Sarah Polley, adapted from Miriam Toews' novel of the same name. Set in a Bolivian Mennonite community, following a group of women who gather to discuss their future after discovering systematic sexual assault by men in their community. The film deeply explores important issues including religious patriarchy critique, collective trauma and healing, women's political awakening, and the power of silence versus voice.

Four girls threatened with cutting seek sanctuary from Collé, turning one courtyard into a conflict over women’s authority, collective resistance, and the power to redefine tradition.

Vivian Qu’s Angels Wear White traces how Mia’s precarious work, two girls’ different family responses and attorney Hao’s support shape who can testify and find safety.

A black comedy drama directed by Zambian filmmaker Rungano Nyoni, starring Susan Chardy. Following young woman Shula who discovers her uncle Fred's body late at night, the film explores the revelation of buried family sexual assault secrets during funeral proceedings with her cousins. With its unique African perspective, the film examines the complex relationships between family trauma, cultural traditions, and women's voices, becoming an important representative work of contemporary African feminist cinema.

Adapted from Angie Thomas's bestselling novel, follows 16-year-old African American girl Starr's journey from silence to voice after witnessing her friend Khalil being shot by police. This coming-of-age drama deeply explores police violence, systemic racism, Black women's voices and agency, and young women's awakening and growth in social justice movements.

A bold and provocative thriller that confronts rape culture through the story of Cassie, a woman seeking justice for her best friend's assault. This Academy Award-winning film challenges audiences to examine complicity, consent, and the systems that protect predators.

Mai Masri’s prison drama follows a Palestinian teacher who gives birth in Israeli custody, locating motherhood, collective resistance, and political imprisonment within the same carceral space.

Nighat Dad explains why access to the internet is inseparable from women’s freedom and how Pakistan’s cyber-harassment helpline turns digital rights into practical support and collective evidence.

Malawian activist Memory Banda connects one girl’s refusal to collective organizing, local bylaws, and national legal reform against child marriage and coercive initiation practices.

Tarana Burke traces Me Too from community organizing in 2006 to the global hashtag, centering survivor support, care after trauma and work beyond the media cycle.

en(gender)ed is a podcast hosted by Teri Yuan, focusing on gender violence, oppression mechanisms, and institutional solutions. The show centers on the voices of survivors, advocates, and policymakers, exploring issues such as coercive control, domestic violence, campus sexual assault, gun violence, and media bias, emphasizing intersectional perspectives and cultural literacy. With a profound, systematic style, it serves as an important knowledge platform in the field of gender justice.

Feminist Sleeper Cell is a podcast produced by Abortion Access Force, focusing on the latest developments in America's abortion rights crisis and anti-gender politics. Hosts Lizz Winstead, Moji Alawode-El, and Marie Khan respond to Supreme Court decisions, anti-abortion organizational actions, misogynistic structures in healthcare systems, and Black women's health issues with satire, anger, and critical humor. With a radical, information-dense style, it represents a frontline voice in American abortion rights advocacy.