Böcker av Andrea Ritchie

"Practicing New Worlds explores how principles of emergence, adaptation, iteration, resilience, transformation, interdependence, decentralization and fractalization can shape organizing toward a world without the violence of surveillance, police, prisons, jails, or cages of any kind, in which we collectively have everything we need to survive and thrive. Drawing on decades of experience as an abolitionist organizer, policy advocate, and litigator in movements for racial, gender, economic, and environmental justice and the principles articulated by adrienne maree brown in Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds, Ritchie invites us to think beyond traditional legislative and policy change to create more possibilities for survival and resistance in the midst of the ongoing catastrophes of racial capitalism--and the cataclysms to come. Rooted in analysis of current abolitionist practices and interviews with on-the-ground organizers resisting state violence, building networks to support people in need of abortion care, and nurturing organizations and convergences that can grow transformative cities and movements, Practicing New Worlds takes readers on a journey of learning, unlearning, experimentation, and imagination to dream the worlds we long for into being"--

Kaba's Sales Track Record: Kaba's We Do This 'til We Free Us was published in February 2021 by Haymarket, is a New York Times bestseller, and to date has sold 27,500 copies.Platform: Mariame Kaba has 141k twitter followers, tweets regularly, and is known as one of the leading prison and police abolitionists of our time; Andrea Ritchie has 14k twitter followers. A number of books will be published later this year that cover some of the same material from similarly respected and renowned abolitionists, including Ruth Wilson Gilmore's Change Everything (June 2021) and Derecka Purnell's Becoming Abolitionists (October 2021), but Kaba's platform far exceeds these authors. Both Kaba and Ricthie have essays in the forthcoming Abolition for the People (October 2021), the anthology edited by Colin Kaepernick.Credentials: Kaba is the recipient of the 2020 Lannan Cultural Freedom Fellowship, the National Sexual Violence Resource Center's 2019 Visionary Voice Award, 2017 Peace Award by War Resisters League, a 2016 SOROS Justice Fellowship, and a 2016 AERA Ella Baker/Septima Clark Human Rights Award. She was listed in the 2018 Bitch 50 and Essence Magazine's 2018 #Woke100.Ritchie was a 2014 Senior Soros Justice Fellow, has testified before the President's Task Force on 21st Century Policing, the White House Council on Women and Girls, the Prison Rape Elimination Commission, and is a member of the Movement for Black Lives Policy Table, and was a founding member of the Steering Committee of New York City's Communities United for Police Reform.Blurbs/endorsements: Both authors' previous books boast blurbs from virtually every major Black intellectual or high-profile activist, including Michelle Alexander, Dorothy Roberts, Barbara Ransby, Robin D. G. Kelley, Rashad Robinson, Opal Tometi, Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Charlene A. Carruthers, Beth Richie, and Mychal Denzel Smith. We expect a similar response to this book.Anniversary: The book will publish at approximately the two-year anniversary of George Floyd's death, and media retrospectives are expected.

A timely examination of the ways Black women, Indigenous women, and other women of color are uniquely affected by racial profiling, police brutality,and immigration enforcement.Invisible No More is a timely examination of how Black women, Indigenous women, and women of color experience racial profiling, police brutality, and immigration enforcement. Placing stories of individual womensuch as Sandra Bland, Rekia Boyd, Dajerria Becton, Monica Jones, and Mya Hallin the broader context of the twin epidemics of police violence and mass incarceration, it documents the evolution of movements centering women's experiences of policing and demands a radical rethinking of our visions of safetyand the means we devote to achieving it.