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• Rose City Self-Defense (RCSD) | Portland.gov

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  Rose City Self-Defense empowers girls, women and the LGBTQ+ community, with a focus on engaging communities of color, people with disabilities, folks with unstable housing, as well as safety for sex workers. All programming is free!

• A Self-defense Study Guide for Trans Women and Gender Non-conforming/nonbinary AMAB Folks

  TransFighters,

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  Offers strategies based in lived experience, ranging from using body language and creating safety in numbers, to training Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu moves. Also available as e-book.

• A Trans #metoo Story

  Wadleigh, Jessica,

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  A story of sexual assault against a trans woman at a bus stop and her self-defense with mace.

• Fear, Safety, & Femmes

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  This zine compiles anonymous interviews with femme-identifying people on the topic of "safety."

• Go for the Eyes

  An Exploration of Self-defense

  Gallagher, Monica, 1979-

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  An autobiographical comic zine telling a personal story about bullies, karate class, and wanting to learn how to kick butt.

• The Cost of Fear

  Why Most Safety Advice Is Sexist and How We Can Stop Gender-based Violence

  Stone, Meg (Executive director of IMPACT),

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  A self-defense expert helps women and other targets of gender-based violence discern fact from fiction, improve their personal safety, and support social change.

• Self Defense for Women. Vol. 1. Krav-Maga Method

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  Using Krav Maga techniques, this instructional video provides the best way to defend oneself on the street. The simple and effective techniques will show how to defend in and against various scenarios such as being approached while jogging, a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Self Defence for Women

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  Provides self-defense basics, techniques, and exercises to help be better prepared for a situation requiring such skills.

• Krav Maga for Women

  Your Ultimate Program for Self-defense

  Levine, Darren

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  An instructional how-to book for techniques for applying Krav Maga in self-defense situation regardless of strength, size, or age.

• Survive the Unthinkable

  a Total Guide to Women's Self-protection

  Larkin, Tim (Self-defense instructor)

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  Outlines a strategic methodology designed to build self-protection skills, providing coverage of specific aggressive behaviors and how to wage an effective counter-attack.

• Weapons of Fitness

  the Women's Ultimate Guide to Fitness, Self-defense, and Empowerment

  Zeisler, Avital, 1989-

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  A self-defense and fitness guide for women, developed by a ballerina-turned-self-defense expert, drawing on her own experiences of surviving a physical assault and building on empowering Krav Maga practices.

• The Frailty Myth

  Redefining the Physical Potential of Women and Girls

  Dowling, Colette

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  Drawing on extensive research in motor development, performance assessment, sports physiology, and endocrinology, Dowling argues that true equality isn't possible until women learn how to stand up for themselves-- physically.

• Safety and Security for Women Who Travel

  Swan, Sheila, 1942-

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  Discusses how to take care of yourself and feel as good on your journeys as you do at home. Personal safety is a prime concern for femme individual on the road, and this collection of tips and wisdom gives tools to be secure, confident travelers.

• Nobody's Victim

  Fighting Psychos, Stalkers, Pervs, and Trolls

  Goldberg, Carrie,

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  Describes the author's work on the front lines of the war against sexual violence and privacy violations as she fights for revenge porn and sextortion laws, uncovers major Title IX violations, and sues the hell out of tech companies, schools, and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Realistic Self-defense in Practice

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  While not femme-specific, this instructional video may be helpful as it shows effective self-defense techniques against a variety of attack scenarios, such as throws, counter techniques, and defense techniques from a ground position.