AN ABOLITIONIST’S HANDBOOK by Patrisse Cullors - Glamour 'The Best Books of 2022 to Add to Your Reading List'

Glamour | January 2, 2021

This will be a year of spectacular books. The best books of 2022—that is, the most anticipated new book releases of the year ahead—are stunners. There are nonfiction books and novels about cults, female friendships, family ties, and future civilizations. Books that will make you laugh until the mascara drips down your face. Chilling thrillers and thrilling memoirs. Romantic books that will have you downloading dating apps again. There'’s no reason to ask, “What book should I read?” for a full year.

An Abolitionist’s Handbook: 12 Steps to Changing Yourself and the World by Patrisse Cullors (January 25)

Any decent non-Black person who thinks about about American slavery imagines—hopes—insists to themselves—that they would have been on the side of the abolitionists. Contemporary abolition usually refers to abolishing the legalized slavery of the prison system, and sometimes to abolishing the police. If that sounds like going too far, it could be time to read up on why many of the great activists of our day are abolitionists. If we’re serious about real change, and not just Black squares, we’re going to need a handbook. Patrisse Cullors, one of the original cofounders of the Black Lives Matter movement, teaches how to build an activism practice from a place of compassion and love.

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