NYCAM

New York City Action Medical

Resources

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Image Description: A vector illustration of a gray rat wearing a black KN95 face mask. The rat is holding a toothpick flagpole with a flag and a banner. The flag is on top, and it is black with the NYC Action Medical logo. The banner is on the bottom, and it is red with the words “Wear a Mask” in white.

Table of Contents

  1. Books
  2. For Healthcare Workers
  3. Protest Safety
  4. Digital Security
  5. Mental Health First Aid
  6. Harm Reduction
  7. Transformative Justice
  8. Herbal Medicine
  9. Reproductive Care
  10. Gender-Affirming Care
  11. COVID-19
  12. Jail Support
  13. Immigration
  14. Mutual Aid

Books

The cover for Riot Medicine: Field Guide by Håkan Geijer: The cover shows a red star of life with a black fist inset, on a black background with white text and title.

Riot Medicine is a textbook for practicing insurrectionary medicine, including organizing, medicine, equipment, and tactics. It is accompanied by a field guide and an abridged version for medical professionals. Reading this book does not replace a street medic training.

The cover of Mind the Gap, which features 5 vertical columns of varying skin tones, and "Mind The Gap" in peach-colored capital letters. Below, on a peach background, brown text says "A handbook of clinical signs in Black and Brown skin;" below that "Mukwende, M., Tamony, P. and Turner, M.;" and below that, "First Edition."

Mind the Gap is a clinical handbook of signs and symptoms in Black and Brown skin that was created by Malone Mukwende, Peter Tamony, and Margot Turner between December 2019 and May 2020. The aims of the project were to highlight the lack of diversity in medical literature and education. 

NYCAM’s Health & Abolition Reading List

  • Medical Apartheid by Harriet A. Washington
  • Killing the Black Body by Dorothy E. Roberts
  • Medicalizing Blackness by Rana A. Hogarth
  • American Sirens by Kevin Hazzard
  • Body and Soul by Alondra Nelson
  • Belly of the Beast by Da’Shaun L. Harrison
  • Fearing the Black Body by Sabrina Strings
  • Prison by Any Other Name by Maya Schenwar and Victoria Law
  • Decarcerating Disability by Liat Ben-Moshe
  • Where There Is No Doctor by David Werner, Carol Thuman, and Jane Maxwell
  • Care Work by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
  • Saving Our Own Lives by Shira Hassan
  • Health Communism by Beatrice Adler-Bolton and Artie Vierkant

For Healthcare Workers

Protest Safety

Digital Security

Mental Health First Aid

Non-Carceral Hotlines & Support Spaces

Harm Reduction

In NYC

Anywhere

Transformative Justice

Herbal Medicine

Reproductive Care

Gender-Affirming Care

COVID-19

COVID Information & Tracking

High-Filtration Masks

If You Have COVID

Long COVID

Jail Support

What is Jail Support?

Jail Support Templates

Legal Processes & Precinct Information

Local Jail Support

Immigration

Mutual Aid

last updated February 2026