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Check out the books that have inspired us on our Restorative journey towards abolition, anti-racism, and decolonization.

Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom Healing Resistance: A Radically Different Response to Harm My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies
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ARJ "Restorative Reads" Bookclub

Are Prisons Obsolete? Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement Fumbling Towards Repair: A Workbook for Community Accountability Facilitators
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Black "HER"story Month

Changing Lenses: Restorative Justice for Our Times (Anniversary) The Little Book of Restorative Justice Little Book of Circle Processes: A New/Old Approach to Peacemaking (Original)
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Restorative Justice

An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States Braiding Sweetgrass Talking Stick: Peacemaking as a Spiritual Path
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Indigenous Perspectives

On Intersectionality: Essential Writings Critical Race Theory: The Key Writings That Formed the Movement Black Looks: Race and Representation
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Racial Justice

Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom Abolition Geography: Essays Towards Liberation Change Everything: Racial Capitalism and the Case for Abolition
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Abolition (Why we need it & How we get there)

Justice on Both Sides: Transforming Education Through Restorative Justice Little Book of Restorative Justice for Colleges & Universities: Revised & Updated: Repairing Harm and Rebuilding Trust in Response to Student Miscondu We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom
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Education

Happy to Be Nappy
Homemade Love [Board Book]
Skin Again
From Murder Capital to Police State: The Real Story Behind Camden's Transition
The Meaning of Freedom
Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday
Women, Culture & Politics
Women, Race, & Class
Are Prisons Obsolete?
Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement
Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom
Teaching Critical Thinking: Practical Wisdom
Sisters of the Yam: Black Women and Self-Recovery
Black Looks: Race and Representation
Appalachian Elegy: Poetry and Place
Remembered Rapture: The Writer at Work
Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope
Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center
Salvation: Black People and Love
Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics
Art on My Mind: Visual Politics
Writing Beyond Race: Living Theory and Practice
Happy to Be Nappy
Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism
Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom
Communion: The Female Search for Love