The revolution starts at home
By: edited by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Ching-In Chen and Jai Dulani
Contributors: Chen, Ching-In; Dulani, Jai
Publisher: The editors
Place of publication: Oakland, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 111
Subjects: Abused women; Minority women; Political activists
Description: Focused on partner abuse in radical, queer, and activist communities, this comp zine contains essays operating on both personal and organization levels. Women that identify as queer and hetero, of color and white, differently-abled and typically-abled all contribute, as well as organizations such as INCITE!, Communities Against Rape and Abuse, and Philly's Pissed. Articles address physical, verbal, and mental abuse, abuse and disability, intersections of oppressions, queer relationships, abuse and trans folks, consent, "mutual abuse," and offer suggestions for communities dealing with intimate partner violence. Included is a list of all featured organizations and their contact information, as well as lots of resources and recommended books and websites.
Notes: Cover title.
Table of contents: title: Where the revolution started : an introduction  -- Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha; title: Introduction  -- Ching-In Chen; title: The revolution starts at home : pushing through the fear  -- Jai Dulani; title: There is another way  -- Ana Lara; title: How I learned to stop worrying and love the wreckage  -- Gina de Vries; title: Infestation  -- Jil Aguado, Anida Ali, Kay Barrett, Sarwat Rumi, of Mango Tribe; title: No title  -- Anonymous; title: I married a Marxist monster  -- Ziggy Ponting; title: Philly's pissed and beyond  -- Timothy Colman; title: Notes on partner consent  -- Bran Fenner; title: Femora and fury : on IPV and disability  -- Peggy Munson; title: Untitled  -- Emily Stern; title: Tranforming communities : community-based responses to partner abuse  -- Vanessa Huang; title: Taking risks : implementing grassroots community accountability strategies  -- Written by a collective of women of color from Communities Against Rape and Abuse (CARA): Alisa Bierria, Onion Carrillo, Eboni Colbert, Xandra Ibarra, Theryn Kigvamasud'Vashti, and Shale Maulana; title: An interview with Alexis Paulina Gumbs of UBUNTU  -- Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha; title: INCITE! community accountability fact sheet --; title: Community accountability within the people of color progressive movement  -- Selections from the 2005 report from INCITE! women of color against violence; title: Potluck : some strategies from the field  -- Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha; title: Checklist for intersex and trans survivors --; title: Abuse is not the same as S/M and S/M is not abuse  -- The Northwest Network; title: The myth of mutual abuse  -- Karen Lee Asherah; title: When your parents made you  -- Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha; title: A litany for survival --; title: My stuff : healing with attitude  -- Broken Beautiful Press; title: Resources --; title: About the editors --; title: About the contributors --