Beyond Do No Harm’s Storytelling Media Project shares stories of health care workers interrupting criminalization to increase awareness of the harmful impacts of criminalization within the medical system and invite people to take action at multiple levels. This project aims to highlight the actions workers are already taking to interrupt criminalization in the context of care, in the hopes of inspiring others to do the same.

A guide for grassroots media, journalists, health care workers, advocates — and anyone! — for challenging copaganda when we talk about ICE/CBP, police, jail and prison officials, and criminalization in hospitals and health care spaces.

A resource for media on covering anti-trans rhetoric and the criminalization of trans people. This guide provides useful context, guidance, and tips for covering the criminalization of trans, non-binary, and Two Spirit+ communities. Like our other “Don’t Be A Copagandist” guides, this resource is helpful for anyone to read and take note of, regardless of profession.

Coming in Fall of 2026, the Abolitionist Guide to NYC is a free and publicly accessible guidebook that will provide a historical and geographic survey of jails and prisons in Manhattan from the Dutch colonization of Lenapehoking to the present day. The first project from the guide is the Abolitionist Map of NYC, which offers a geographic survey of incarceration and anti-carceral resistance in these areas.

A zine from Mariame Kaba that situates study itself as an act of defiance, remembrance and freedom work by tracing the enduring legacy of David Walker’s An Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World (1829), a radical pamphlet calling for Black resistance, self-determination, and liberation.

A zine on transnational authoritarian collaborations and abolitionist resistance — available in English and Spanish. The zine summarizes a conversation with Yo No Fui, an abolitionist and antifascist collective in Argentina, that took place during Interrupting Criminalization’s Transformative Justice Under Authoritarianism webinar series.

A collaborative resource on harm reduction and navigating risk in mandated reporting. This tool outlines some of the most common questions practitioners and community-based groups encounter when navigating the realities of mandated reporting.

A mini toolkit to take action to disrupt the ICE kidnapping, detention, and deportation machine. This online resource is an invitation to join efforts already in motion in your area and across the country to protect our community members — or to start your own, or to take action wherever and however you can.

A resource for people interested in and working to develop abolitionist crisis response rooted in transformative justice. This offering aims to help demystify a few things about how we develop, think about, and create these organizations and formations, and how we sustain them.

An online toolkit for journalists, communicators, and organizers responding to law enforcement disinformation. This virtual resource accompanies and expands on our “Don’t Be A Copagandist” series by providing tools for shifting coverage to counter copaganda.

Size 12x18” museum-quality poster made on thick matte paper. This poster, modeled after workplace safety posters that give advice on how to clean up vomit and other hazards, sums up ten key ways journalists and media makers can cut through authoritarian and pro-police propaganda.

A “back to school” reading guide and resource list for people interested in learning more and supporting abolitionist health care workers and providers who are fighting criminalization of care.

Informational power establishes sustained, proactive community control over the facts and information that we need in order to struggle and survive, and that inform how we make sense of the world together, and the actions we take to shape our futures. Shaping Reality: Building Informational Power to Resist Authoritarianism lays out an essential framework and guiding questions for building community-controlled informational infrastructure.

A zine on protest, power, and “violence” in social movements, adapted directly from Chapter 6 of the book Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care by Kelly Hayes and Mariame Kaba.

A checklist and resource for people concerned about digital security and doxxing, whether you are a journalist or someone whose name or face appears in media or social media. There are steps that you can take to clean up your digital presence so that it’s more difficult for people to hack your accounts or track down information about you. Available in Spanish.

A zine by Mariame Kaba that goes over some historical background about U.S. police and their use of tear gas, along with archival photos and documents from Kaba’s collection.

Inspired by “Block & Build” sheets circulating, Interrupting Criminalization offers an abolitionist take on strategic frameworks  for fighting Right-wing, authoritarian, and fascist agendas and regimes.

Prisons Must Fall is a powerful children’s book showing the harm that prisons cause and exploring abolitionist solutions, such as meeting people's basic needs, restorative justice, and community support—seeds for a safe world.

A resource for media and organizers aimed at transforming the narrative about migration. Like our other “Don’t Be A Copagandist” guides, this resource is helpful for anyone to read and take note of, regardless of profession.

Most often, attacks on libraries focus on books—various interest groups have tried to remove a wide range of books from library shelves. Sometimes, though, librarians who take the egalitarian mission of the library seriously have also become targets of their communities or of the state.

Read, print, and share Interrupting Criminalization’s new zine. Readers will learn about the history of police in libraries, tales of librarians who have been targeted by law enforcement and those that have resisted policing the stacks. With books, libraries, and library patrons under threat, explore histories of resistance to policing inside libraries and the calls to action going out today.

A report by the National Black Women’s Justice Institute and Interrupting Criminalization that examines diversion programs from the perspective of the people they impact the most — participants themselves — and offers recommendations for program evaluation and creation of community-based programs that genuinely divert people from the criminal punishment system toward sustainable well-being.

This update to Interrupting Criminalization’s 2019 publication What Is Driving Criminalization of Women and LGBTQ People? comes as we enter into a new phase of rising authoritarianism and fascism across the United States, which necessarily will be operationalized through intensified policing, criminalization, imprisonment, detention, and deportations.

A report sharing learnings from a virtual transnational transnational conference for transformative justice, restorative justice, and community accountability practitioners that took place in May 2023. The report includes case studies from Kurdistan, India, the Philippines, and Argentina, and looks at the different languages and lineages people draw on in each of these places to root transformative justice practices in their local soil.

A toolkit offering resources, responses, and questions to consider in building robust community ecosystems of collective care at the neighborhood and city-wide levels. Based on Interrupting Criminalization’s work and practice spaces, and aimed at helping communities seeking to strengthen networks of community care and advance transformative justice.

A report summarizing the impacts of the global drug war on Black women, girls, and trans and gender nonconforming people, as well as the Black feminist visions, analysis, and needs articulated during the Building Black Feminist Visions to End the Drug War convening hosted by Interrupting Criminalization, the Drug Policy Alliance, and In Our Names Network in June 2023.

Chart breaking down the difference between reformist reforms which continue or expand the reach of the drug war, and abolitionist steps that work to chip away and reduce its overall impact. Originally from the report, Building Black Feminist Visions to End the Drug War.

This is the third ‘zine in a series responding to or engaging with questions relating to the role of the state in abolitionist futures. This ‘zine features a lightly edited transcript of a presentation given by academic, activist, writer Nazan Üstündağ.

Illustrated graphic notes from a public panel kicking off How Do We Relate to the State?, a two-day virtual convening hosted by IC in September 2023.