Andrea Ritchie

Andrea J. Ritchie is a writer, lawyer, and activist for women of color, especially LGBTQ women of color, who have been victims of police violence.^{[1] [2]} An abolitionist and a anarchist, her activism consists of demand for the elimination of police and prisons.^[3] She is the author of Invisible No More, a history of state violence against women of color, and co-author of No More Police: A Case for Abolition with Mariame Kaba.

Ritchie attended Cornell University and Howard University School of Law.^[4] She clerked for Judge Emmet G. Sullivan on the United States District Court for the District of Columbia.^[5]

Ritchie is a Researcher-in-Residence at the Social Justice Institute at the Barnard Center for Research on Women.^[6] Her writing has appeared in The New York Times , Teen Vogue , and Essence .^{[7] [8] [9]} In 2018, Ritchie co-authored the report SayHerName: Police Violence against Black Women and Women of Color with Kimberlé Crenshaw and the African American Policy Forum (Haymarket 2016).^[10] In 2022 she published No More Police: A Case for Abolition which she co-authored with Mariame Kaba. In No More Police she provides some details on events in her life that made her a prison and police abolitionist, lays out arguments for why policing should be abolished, and discusses methods of creating safety without police.^[11]

In 2017, Ritchie published Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color.^{[1] [12]} In it, she gives a history of often-obscured state violence against women of color in the United States, beginning in the colonial period and continuing through the present, discussing how the historical precedent established current conditions.^[13] She ties practices in colonialism, slavery and Jim Crow to contemporary policing frameworks including broken windows policing and the wars on drugs, immigration, and terror.^[14] In a review for Policing and Society , Robert Nicewarner found four major contributions Ritchie made with the book: demonstrating the historically contingent and structural nature of police violence against women of color; the development of "mixed" methodology interweaving statistics and personal stories; demonstrating the insufficiency of police response to violence against women of color; and demonstrating the "dire need to resist and reform" these issues.^[14]

• No More Police: A Case of Abolition, co-authored with Mariame Kaba, The New Press, 2022. ISBN 9781620977323
• Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color, Beacon Press, 2017. ISBN 9780807088982
• Queer (In)Justice: The Criminalization of LGBT People in the United States, co-authored with Joey Mogul and Kay Whitlock, Beacon Press, 2012. ISBN 9780807051153

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• 21st-century American writers

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