Added Rad Book

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My review:

Liberated to the Bone by Susan Raffo is such a relevant guide to locating and dealing with the white supremacy violence we all carry, and she speaks directly to privileged people (white cis-gendered people) on our unwillingness to change and stop the violence. She also gives a historical account, specific to Minneapolis, on this country's "two original wounds: Indigenous disappearance and anti-Black racism." Raffo repeats throughout the book that the first step of healing justice (concept of Cara Page and The Kindred Collective) is to stop violence. But what happens if you are in a S/state of perpetual violence?

During a Climate Solutions conversation this weekend, my friend and multi-disciplinary artist Jovan C. Speller said there is really no police presence in her new home of rural Minnesota, so she is far less anxious about potential violence, compared to living in a city.

This is what people in rural areas may or may not know - some of our friends literally cannot live in a police-occupied city. None of us can be free in a police-occupied city - it is a state of perpetual violence. And we all know, deep down, that abolition is the way to stop the violence.

AK Press published Liberated to the Bone and they are offering free e-books on abolition/liberation. https://www.akpress.org/featured-products/featured-topic-free-ebook.html


Pick up Liberated To the Bone in the Rad Mini Library!




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