General Resources

Below is a collection of existing resources on the topics of awareness, anti-oppression and community accountability, in German and English. We will try to update this page from time to time and make it a bit more comprehensive. If you have suggestions, or if you think one of these resources should be removed, please write to us and let us know!

On Awareness (All in German)

(2007) Heiligendamm Antisexist Contact and Awarenessgroup: Die antisexist contact and awarenessgroup stellt sich vor

(2008) Auswertungsbericht der Antisexist Contact and Awareness Group

Awareness is Awesome: Texte und Gedanken zu Awareness

On Creating Safer Spaces

Queering Protest Sites

The Fundamental Requirements for Organized Safer Space
Implementing Safer Spaces – Ideas for how to put words into action

Making Anti-Oppression Workshops a Safer Space
On Substance Consumption in Activist Contexts

Towards a Less Fucked Up World

But What About Beer

Crimethinc: Anarchy and Alcohol

On Community Accountability and Transformative Justice

INCITE: Community Accountability Fact Sheet

Philly’s Pissed Resources

(2011): Community Accountability: Emerging Movements to Transform Violence

 What Do We Do When? #2

What Do we Do When? #3

Toward Transformative Justice

Responding to Sexualized Violence, Supporting Survivors of Sexualized Violence

De Ja Vu
Witch-Hunt: Addressing Mental Health and Confronting Sexual Assault in Activist Communities
On Consent:

Ask First Zine

What to do when someone tells you that you violated their boundaries, made them feel uncomfortable, or committed assault

(German) WAS, WENN DU EINER GRENZVERLETZUNG BESCHULDIGT WIRST?

Beginner’s Guide to Responsible Sexuality

Don’t rape each other! (by the Olympia Street Medics collective)

(2009) Paul Brown: Don’t Be a Dick

Example Consent Policies from Medic Wiki

Cindy Crabb : Learning Good Consent

Bullet Girl and the enforcer : Not without my consent

General Anti-Oppression

(2012): The Privilege of Politeness

Anti-Oppression Principles and Practices

(2009): A Compilation of Anti-Oppression Resources

List of Privilege Lists

Why Inclusionary Language Matters

Ivan Illich: To Hell With Good Intentions

Racism and Anti-Racism

(1990) White Privilege: Unpacking the Inivisible Knapsack
Tamara K. Nopper (2003): The White Anti-Racist Is an Oxymoron: An Open Letter to “White Anti-Racists”.

Racism 101: Why asking POC to explain is a problem

more reading suggestions: http://reclaimsociety.wordpress.com/literatur-etc/literature/


Anti-Sexism

Dangerous Spaces Violent Resistance

Anti-Sexismus Reloaded
Chris Crass (2004): Going to places that scare me: Personal reflections on challenging male supremacy
Ableism, Radical Peer Support and Anti-Psychiatry
Ableism/Language
Aus.Schluss – Barrierefrei veranstalten!
Barrier-free Event Spaces in Berlin

When Language Runs Dry

The Icarus Project

Functionally Ill

more literature tips: http://www.ak-mob.org/literatur-zu-behinderung-und-geschlecht/

http://freakoutcrazy.com/antipsychiatrie/praxis/

Trans*phobia

Not Yr Cister Press

Dysphoria means Total Destroy

Manifesto for the Trans-Feminist Insurrection

http://makezine.enoughenough.org/pronouns.html

Trauma and Self-Care:

Activist Trauma
Out of Action

Activist Trauma + Recovery

Activist Trauma: Mutual Support in the Face of Repression

Game Over? No Way!: Politically Active without Burning Out (English) // Politisch aktiv, ohne kaputtzugehen (German) Trauma Support

More Lists of Nice Resources

http://safespacenetwork.tumblr.com/post/23388828318/the-safe-space-network-tumblr-list