What About the Rapists?
Subtitle: An Abolitionist FAQ Series from Interrupting Criminalization
By: Mariame Kaba & Eva Nagao
Publisher: Interrupting Criminalization
Published: 2021
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 10
Subjects: Prison abolition movements; COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-; Community activists; COVID-19 (Disease)
Description: CW: sexual violence, rape    In this informative zine, Mariame Kaba and Eva Nagao answer frequently asked questions about sexual assault and the prison abolition movement. Kaba poses the question: "What can we build to keep people safe? To support those who have been harmed." She references Danielle Sered's reference to the prison industrial complex as an unsatisfying, but popular in scarcity hamburger stand. The analogy helps readers understand that in the current system: "The majority of survivors choose not to engage with the criminal punishment system. Even if they did, the system could never address the number of sexual assaults that happen in the US (an assault every 68 seconds)." The color-printed zine includes a quotations, references, and resources.
Notes: Cover title.

This zine was made during the COVID-19 pandemic, but is not explicitly about the virus.

Freedoms and restrictions are not stated. Assume copyright.

Free; Kaba, Mariame at the PIC Zine Fair; 2021.