An Abolitionists Handbook, Patrisse Cullors
An Abolitionists Handbook, Patrisse Cullors
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An Abolitionist's Handbook
12 Steps to Changing Yourself and the World

Author: Patrisse Cullors

Narrator: Ariel Blake

Unabridged: 7 hr 15 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/25/2022

Synopsis

The audiobook features an introduction written and read by Prentis Hemphill as well as an exclusive bonus conversation with the author and adrienne maree brown.

In AN ABOLITIONIST’S HANDBOOK, Cullors charts a framework for how everyday activists can effectively fight for an abolitionist present and future. Filled with relatable pedagogy on the history of abolition, a reimagining of what reparations look like for Black lives and real-life anecdotes from Cullors AN ABOLITIONIST’S HANDBOOK offers a bold, innovative, and humanistic approach to how to be a modern-day abolitionist. Cullors asks us to lead with love, fierce compassion, and precision.

In AN ABOLITIONIST’S HANDBOOK readers will learn how to:

- have courageous conversations
- move away from reaction and towards response
- take care of oneself while fighting for others
- turn inter-community conflict into a transformative action
- expand one’s imagination, think creatively, and find the courage to experiment
- make justice joyful
- practice active forgiveness
- make space for difficult feelings and honor mental health
- practice non-harm and cultivate compassion
- organize local and national governments to work towards abolition
- move away from cancel culture

AN ABOLITIONIST’S HANDBOOK is for those who are looking to reimagine a world where communities are treated with dignity, care and respect. It gives us permission to move away from cancel culture and into visioning change and healing.

"Ariel Blake uses a bold voice to narrate this thought-provoking audiobook." --AudioFile

About Patrisse Cullors

Patrisse Cullors is an author of the New York Times bestseller When They Call You a Terrorist, educator, artist, and abolitionist from Los Angeles. She is the co-founder of the Crenshaw Dairy Mart and has been on the frontlines of the abolitionist movement with Black Lives Matter, Justice LA, Dignity and Power Now, and Reform LA jails. Also the founder of The Center For Art and Abolition, Cullors has popularized the term “Abolitionist Aesthetics” to challenge artists to aestheticize abolition.

About Ariel Blake

Ariel Blake is a Black and Guyanese (American) theater artist, teacher, abolitionist & birth keeper based in Flatbush, Brooklyn. Her voice can also be heard narrating An Abolitionist’s Handbook by Patrisse Cullors and Raven Leilani’s Luster, among other titles.

Reviews

Goodreads review by afoolofatook on January 12, 2022

I had some mixed feelings about this book because I made the mistake of googling the author in the middle of the book, finding out she had stepped down from BLM amidst some controversy (though the author alleges that her stepping down dovetailed with her own plans to leave the group, so do your own......more

Goodreads review by Nay on March 29, 2022

I am a little disappointed in this one. Most of the chapters felt more life lesson-y than specifically focused on abolition. The two chapters I felt were the most relevant were “Embrace Non-Reformist Reform” and “Fight the US State Rather Than Make it Stronger.” Otherwise it struck me as very self-h......more

Goodreads review by alexis on March 07, 2022

This book is, weirdly, not really about actual police or prison abolition. I think that, at its best, this book is about the creativity and attitude shift that abolition necessitates, but honestly I’d recommend the book Care Work by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha if you’re interested in that speci......more

Goodreads review by Christina on April 22, 2022

Minus one star because Cullors offers this handbook as a tool to carry around, scribble notes in, and return to time and time again... but the binding of this first edition print by St. Martin's Press is a nightmare!! The book jacket is a size too large so it flops around, the pages are not secured......more

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