Resources

Intended for use by individuals, classrooms, book clubs, and organizations, the Invisible No More Study and Discussion Guide breaks down key concepts and offers reflection questions, exercises, and self-care tips designed to make Invisible No More more accessible to students, activists, and readers of all kinds!

This report calls for an expansion of messaging and responses to more explicitly center the experiences of Black women, girls, trans and gender nonconforming people. It also calls on contemporary anti-violence movements to expand the current focus on sexual violence by politicians, in the entertainment industry and in the workplace to include settings in which Black women, girls, trans and gender nonconforming people’s experiences of sexual violence remain largely shrouded in silence, including schools, foster care systems, police interactions, and prisons.

. Under the banner “Free the City, Heal the City,” Chicago’s cross-sectoral and intergenerational organizing community is calling on the new city leadership to adopt a whole new politic – one that conclusively rejects privatization of public goods, disinvestment from low-income communities and communities of color, and reliance on policing and criminalization as the primary response to social problems and substitute for social services and social goods. There is much we can learn from Chicago’s journey to this moment and the visions for the city that are emerging during this transition.

A policy brief written by Andrea J. Ritchie and Monique W. Morris, Ed.D., that highlights the need to provide sanctuary and build toward freedom by challenging and eliminating immigration enforcement and policing practices that cause harm to Black women, as well as create conditions that will ensure safety from interpersonal and intra-communal violence for Black women, girls, gender nonconforming people and fem(me)s.

An historical overview of policing that traces the evolution of policing in the US, and people’s resistance to it. The timeline focus is 1845 to the present, but includes information from as far back as the 1100’s.

Perhaps no group is more vulnerable to violence in our society than trans people, especially Black and Latino trans people. Often treated with scorn by police and judges, trans people are frequently criminalized for what would commonly be viewed as self-defense or a minor infraction. Our guests today, Appeal writer Aviva Stahl and trans activist Ceyenne Doroshow, talk about the criminalization of trans people and efforts to draw attention to a population told time and again that their lives are expendable.

In March 2018, police in Sacramento, California killed Stephon Clark, an unarmed 22-year-old, in his grandparents’ backyard. A year later, District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert’s announcement that charges would not be filed against the two officers responsible for his death became the latest flashpoint for the Black Lives Matter movement. Appeal staff reporter Aaron Morrison provides the latest on the protests in Sacramento and how activists are working to hold police accountable and seek justice for Stephon Clark.

In listening to families impacted by police violence and engaging in exhaustive literature, study, legal research and lived experience of community-appointed Police Commissioners, APTP has created this Best Practices Guide to support local organizers interested in supporting change to bring an end to the systemic police violence, abuse and murder against Black, Brown, Indigenous, Queer and marginalized people. Findings indicate that best practice requires the establishment of an all-civilian oversight structure with discipline power that includes both a Civilian Complaints Office and a Police Commission.

A toolkit created by BreakOUT! and Streetwise and Safe (SAS). This toolkit is meant to serve as a resource to share the ways people directly impacted by profiling, policing, and criminalization have made changes in policies that affect material conditions and lived realities of criminalized lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer/questioning, and two-spirit (LGBTQTS) youth on the ground. The intention is to make the resources, strategies, and policies that can contribute to addressing the profiling, policing and criminalization of LGBTQTS youth broadly available to a wide range of organizations across the country.