Mariame Kaba
Mariame Kaba is an organizer, educator, librarian, and prison industrial complex (PIC) abolitionist who is active in movements for racial, gender, and transformative justice. Kaba is the founder and director of Project NIA, a grassroots abolitionist organization with a vision to end youth incarceration. Mariame co-leads the initiative Interrupting Criminalization, a project she co-founded with Andrea Ritchie in 2018.
Kaba is the author of the New York Times Bestseller We Do This Til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice (Haymarket Press 2021), Missing Daddy (Haymarket 2019), Fumbling Towards Repair: A Workbook for Community Accountability Faciltators with Shira Hassan (Project NIA, 2019), See You Soon (Haymarket, March 2022) and No More Police: A Case for Abolition with Andrea Ritchie (The New Press, Aug 2022).pport and tools for repair, restoration, and moving toward a future beyond incarceration.
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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Abolition and Social Work
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How to Abolish Prisons
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A Riot at the United Nations
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Lo que haremos hasta que nos liberemos
by Mariame Kaba -
Lifting As They Climbed
by Mariame Kaba and Essence McDowell
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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. -
See You Soon
by Mariame Kaba
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We Do This 'Til We Free Us
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Missing Daddy
by Mariame Kaba