Let This Radicalize You is a practical and imaginative resource for activists and organizers building power in an era of destabilization and catastrophe.
Mariame Kaba is an organizer, educator, librarian, and prison industrial complex (PIC) abolitionist who is active in movements for racial, gender, and transformative justice. Kaba is the founder and director of Project NIA, a grassroots abolitionist organization with a vision to end youth incarceration. Mariame co-leads the initiative Interrupting Criminalization, a project she co-founded with Andrea Ritchie in 2018.
Kaba is the author of the New York Times Bestseller We Do This Til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice (Haymarket Press 2021), Missing Daddy (Haymarket 2019), Fumbling Towards Repair: A Workbook for Community Accountability Faciltators with Shira Hassan (Project NIA, 2019), See You Soon (Haymarket, March 2022) and No More Police: A Case for Abolition with Andrea Ritchie (The New Press, Aug 2022).
Foreword: Radicalization Is Vital by Maya Schenwar
Introduction: Remaking the World by Kelly Hayes
Introduction: We Can Only Survive Together by Mariame Kaba
Chapter 1: Beyond Alarm, toward Action
Chapter 2: Refusing to Abandon
Chapter 3: Care Is Fundamental
Chapter 4: Think Like a Geographer
Chapter 5: Rejecting Cynicism and Building Broader Movements
Chapter 6: "Violence" in Social Movements
Chapter 7: Don’t Pedestal Organizers
Chapter 8: Hope and Grief Can Coexist
Chapter 9: Organizing Isn’t Matchmaking
Chapter 10: Avoiding Burnout and Going the Distance
Conclusion: Relationships, Reciprocity, and Struggle by Kelly Hayes
Conclusion: Beyond Doom, toward Collective Action by Mariame Kaba
Afterword: Movements Make Life by Harsha Walia