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Supreme Court Case on Trans Health Shows How Gender Essentialism Harms Us All
Supreme Court Case on Trans Health Shows How Gender Essentialism Harms Us All

Truthout

Censored By Prisons, Censored By TedX
Censored By Prisons, Censored By TedX

Discourse Blog

Several of the GOP’s Most Fiercely Anti-Trans Candidates Lost Their Elections
Several of the GOP’s Most Fiercely Anti-Trans Candidates Lost Their Elections

Truthout

4 Ways Oaklanders Can Focus Their Energy, Organize, and Respond to the Election
4 Ways Oaklanders Can Focus Their Energy, Organize, and Respond to the Election

The Oaklandside

How Princess Leia Teaches Us Not to Lose Hope as We Head Into Another Trump Presidency
How Princess Leia Teaches Us Not to Lose Hope as We Head Into Another Trump Presidency

The Mary Sue

Trump’s First Term Was Bad for Trans People. His Next Term Promises to Be Worse.
Trump’s First Term Was Bad for Trans People. His Next Term Promises to Be Worse.

Truthout

Transformative Justice Is Global
Transformative Justice Is Global

Inquest

Disruptive Protest Isn’t Meant to Convince — It’s Meant to Break the Status Quo
Disruptive Protest Isn’t Meant to Convince — It’s Meant to Break the Status Quo

Truthout

Fire Dreams: Making Black Feminist Liberation in the South
Fire Dreams: Making Black Feminist Liberation in the South

Political Research Associates

New Library Scholarship Elevates Social Justice
New Library Scholarship Elevates Social Justice

Pratt Institute

Journalism Professor’s Suspension Shows the Hypocrisy of “Objectivity”
Journalism Professor’s Suspension Shows the Hypocrisy of “Objectivity”

Truthout

The Right Wants Us to Submit to Nihilism. Here Is Where I’m Searching for Hope.
The Right Wants Us to Submit to Nihilism. Here Is Where I’m Searching for Hope.

Truthout

Vance’s “Cat Ladies” Remarks Reflect Broader GOP Effort to Weaponize “Family”
Vance’s “Cat Ladies” Remarks Reflect Broader GOP Effort to Weaponize “Family”

Truthout

Christian Nationalists Pursue State Capture — and North Carolina Is Exhibit A
Christian Nationalists Pursue State Capture — and North Carolina Is Exhibit A

Truthout

Police Violence Is Also Political Violence — and Deeply Normalized in the US
Police Violence Is Also Political Violence — and Deeply Normalized in the US

Truthout

“Disrupt and Vilify”: The War on Immigrants Inside the US War on Drugs
“Disrupt and Vilify”: The War on Immigrants Inside the US War on Drugs

A joint report by Human Rights Watch and Drug Policy Alliance

Queer Activists Are Making BDS a Key Question of Pride This Year
Queer Activists Are Making BDS a Key Question of Pride This Year

Truthout

Divesting from Carceral Thinking
Divesting from Carceral Thinking

Boston Review

Everyone’s An “Activist.” We Need More Organizers.
Everyone’s An “Activist.” We Need More Organizers.

Gay Times

Police Are Sending Student Protesters to the ER. Campus Cops Don’t Keep Us Safe.
Police Are Sending Student Protesters to the ER. Campus Cops Don’t Keep Us Safe.

Truthout

Anti-Mask Laws Target Gaza Protests, But They Threaten All Progressive Movements
Anti-Mask Laws Target Gaza Protests, But They Threaten All Progressive Movements

Truthout

Public Health Finally Sees Incarceration as a Crisis. Abolition Is the Solution.
Public Health Finally Sees Incarceration as a Crisis. Abolition Is the Solution.

Truthout

"We Need to Resist and Dismantle Through Decentralized Formations"
"We Need to Resist and Dismantle Through Decentralized Formations"

Organizing My Thoughts

The Revolution Will Be Caring
The Revolution Will Be Caring

Public Books

‘One Million Experiments’ Showcases Liberatory Future-Building on a Micro Scale
‘One Million Experiments’ Showcases Liberatory Future-Building on a Micro Scale

Prism

Hope Is a Practice and a Discipline: Building a Path to a Counterculture of Care
Hope Is a Practice and a Discipline: Building a Path to a Counterculture of Care

Nonprofit Quarterly

Author Q&A with Andrea J. Ritchie
Author Q&A with Andrea J. Ritchie

The Public Eye Magazine, Political Research Associates

Practicing Emergent Strategies to Fight the Right and Resist Fascism
Practicing Emergent Strategies to Fight the Right and Resist Fascism

The Public Eye Magazine, Political Research Associates

Illusions of Safety
Illusions of Safety

The Baffler Magazine

Love Letters for Liberation
Love Letters for Liberation

“A Choreography of Being in Good Relation: Rehearsals for Living Book Review Forum,” Society and Space

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The Defund Movement in 2024: Frontline Reporters Separate Myth from Reality

The Laura Flanders Show

Objectivity in Journalism Is a Deadly Myth That Serves Israeli Military and Cops

Movement Memos, Truthout

Emergent Strategies & Abolition

Interdependent Study

Practicing New Worlds w/ Andrea Ritchie

Death Panel

Health Justice - More than Do No Harm

Interdependent Study

Footnote Forum’s Moderated Conversation with Mariame Kaba and Dean Spade on the Importance of Archives to Our Social Movements

Footnote Forum

Taking Back the Library w/ Mariame Kaba & Melissa Gira Grant

Death Panel

Practicing New Worlds in a Time of Collapse

Movement Memos, Truthout

Police Reform After 2020: Andrea J. Ritchie's Deep Dive into Emergent Strategies

The Laura Flanders Show

Movement Building Involves Discomfort

This is Hell!, WNUR-FM

Episode 1: Peter then Thomas

Last Call, HBO

Episode 9: An End In Sight

Blind Plea, Lemonada Media

Don’t Despair, Practice Hope

Interdependent Study

Episode 6: Devan’s Defense

Blind Plea, Lemonada Media

“We Don’t Get There Without The Shared Struggle”

Millennials Are Killing Capitalism

"How Are We Going To Build Power To Get What We Want?"

Millennials Are Killing Capitalism

Cop City Is Only the Beginning, Unless We Fight

Movement Memos, Truthout

No More Police with Andrea Ritchie

Death Panel

Let This Radicalize You w/ Mariame Kaba & Kelly Hayes

Death Panel

Palestinian Organizers: We Honor Our Grief by Practicing Hope

Movement Memos, Truthout

To Transform Conflict in Movements, We Must Learn How to Stay in It Together

Movement Memos, Truthout

Let This Conversation With Mariame Kaba Radicalize You

Movement Memos, Truthout

Let's Talk: Copaganda w/ Lewis Wallace

Abolition Is for Everybody

Episode 108: A Pro-democracy Case Against Objectivity

News Over Noise

No More Police: A Case for Abolition

Inside Out Radio Show with Aishah Shahidah Simmons, WPFW

The Case for Abolition w/ Andrea J Ritchie

Law and Disorder with Cat Brooks, 94.1 KPFA

Pulling Back the Curtain on Police Propaganda with Andrea Ritchie.

Black History Year, PushBlack

Texas Jury Convicted Ex-Police Officer Who Killed Atatiana Jefferson

The Takeaway

Non Serviam Podcast #43 - No More Cops with Mariame Kaba

Non Serviam Media

We Need Harm Reduction With a Liberatory Vision

Movement Memos, Truthout