New Breath Foundation staff is committed to our ongoing learning about the issues that deeply impact our communities. If you’d like to learn with us, here are a few resources from our previous discussion. This list is not exhaustive; we will continue to refresh this content as we come across new information.
Articles
- Abolition in Our Times: A Gathering of Pacific Islander and Asian American Communities recap with Grassroots Asians Rising, Empowering Pacific Islander Communities, & others (3 pages)
- Abolition, the Basics by Asian American Organizing Project (4 pages)
- Why Abolition Is Essential for Black-Asian Solidarity by Rohan Zhou-Lee in them (7 pages)
- From Emancipation to Exclusion: Contract, Citizens, and Coolies by Edlie Wong (3 pages)
- Hate-Crime Laws Are Not the Answer to Anti-Asian Violence, Abolition Is by Jason Wu & James McMaster in Teen Vogue (3 pages)
- #SurvivedandPunished: Survivor Defense as Abolitionist Praxis (29 pages) View grantee
- Police “Reforms” You Should Always Oppose by Mariame Kaba in Truthout (5 pages)
- A Growing Asian-American Movement Calls for Prison Abolition by Karyn Smoot & Andrew Szeto in Truthout (22 pages)
- South Asians for Abolition: Beyond Gilded Cages – Part 1(10 pages) & Part 2 (12 pages) on Asian American Writer’s Workshop
- Indian sex worker groups slam global conference on abolition of prostitution by Nita Bhalla in Reuters (3 pages)
- Anti-Carceral Feminism: The Contradictions of Progress and the Possibilities of Counter-Hegemonic Struggle by Mimi E. Kim (19 pages)
- Transforming communities: community-based responses to partner abuse by Vanessa Huang in The Revolution Starts at Home (6 pages)
Books
- Prison by Any Other Name by Maya Schenwar & Victoria Law, foreword by Michelle Alexander
- Carceral Capitalism by Jackie Wang
- Becoming Abolitionists by Derecka Purnell
- We Do This ‘Til We Free Us by Mariame Kaba
Videos & Podcasts
- Atlanta Killings: Sex Worker Advocate Sees Deadly Consequences Of Overlapping Hatreds with Yves Nguyen on NPR (6 mins)
- Crimmigration & Internationalist Abolition on Rust Belt Abolition Radio with Asian Prisoner Support Committee (28 mins)
- Beyond #StopAsianHate: Criminalization, Gender, and Asian Abolition Feminism with Ny Nourn, Dr. Connie Wun, Yves Tong Nguyen & others (2 hours)
- Haymarket’s Asians for Abolition with Anoop Prasad, Sarath Suong, & others (1 hour, 55 mins)
- What Does an Abolitionist Asian American Politics Look Like? with Asian Solidarity Collective, Asian American Feminist Collective, & others (1 hour, 5 mins)
- No More Cages! on the Model Majority Podcast with Anoop Prasad (1 hour, 3 mins)
- Haymarket’s The Struggle For Abolition: From The U.S. To Palestine (1 hour, 34 mins)
Reading Lists
- Asians for Abolition Resource Hub by AAPI Women Lead, Red Canary Song, Survived & Punished, and others
- Asian American Feminist Collective & Black Women Radicals’ Black + Asian American Feminist Solidarities: A Reading List
- Abolitionist Futures reading list
- Muslim Abolitionist Futures resources
Websites