Title: The Revolution Starts at Home
Description: Long demanded and urgently needed, <em>The Revolution Starts at Home: Confronting Intimate Violence Within Activist Communities</em> finally breaks the dangerous silence surrounding the secret” of intimate violence within social justice circles. This watershed collection of stories and strategies tackles the multiple forms of violence encountered right where we live, love, and work for social change and delves into the nitty-gritty on how we might create safety from abuse without relying on the state. Drawing on over a decade of community accountability work, along with its many hard lessons and unanswered questions, The Revolution Starts at Home offers potentially life-saving alternatives for creating survivor safety while building a movement where no one is left behind.
Subjects: Intimate partner violence, Same-sex partner abuse, Violence, Prevention, Offenses against the person, Political activists, Violence against, a, Community Accountability, sexual violence
Places: United States