A review by 11corvus11
The Revolution Starts at Home: Confronting Intimate Violence Within Activist Communities by Ching-In Chen

5.0

I took my time with this one. It's heavy and a lot of information to process. It hit home very hard at times.There is a lot of good stuff in this book from strategy to storytelling. The essays on practicing accountability often conflicted with one another a little bit offering multiple ways of looking at abusive behaviors in relationships. And I appreciated the disability essay (though I agree with the intro that there was not enough disability consideration in some of the writings) and the essays discussing how social capital and/or oppression status can be manipulated in order to isolate and silence survivors in radical communities. I've seen and experienced this. I will be thinking a lot about what I've read here for a while.