Full name: The Revolution Starts at Home: Confronting Intimate Violence Within Activist Communities

Author: Ching-In Chen Year: 2011 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Feminism, Non Fiction, Gay & Lesbian, Essays Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780896087941 9781849352628 0896087948 1849352623

Long demanded and urgently needed, The Revolution Starts at Home: Confronting Intimate Violence Within Activist Communities 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. Similar books: We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde Not That Bad by Roxane Gay Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay The Witches Are Coming by Lindy West How to Suppress Women's Writing by Joanna Russ The Geek Feminist Revolution by Kameron Hurley Listen Up by Barbara Findlen Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud by Anne Helen Petersen Home Girls by Barbara Smith Moving Beyond Words by Gloria Steinem Excluded by Julia Serano The Bust Guide to the New Girl Order by Marcelle Karp Body Outlaws by Ophira Edut To Be Real by Rebecca Walker Pretty Bitches by Lizzie Skurnick The Burning Library by Edmund White Redefining Realness by Janet Mock Eloquent Rage by Brittney Cooper Insomniac City by Bill Hayes