Inclusive Sober Literature
Their Sober Press is an anonymous fellowship of alcoholics with support from non-alcoholics who "remix" sober literature to make them more inclusive for people of all genders, sexual orientations, and religious beliefs. It is our sincere hope that these small changes help make 12 step programs accessible to people who formerly felt unwelcome due to exclusionary language in the central texts. Our work is not authorized by the AA General Service Board, AA World Service Board, or any related organization.
We are not for profit and do not accept any donations. If any of the literature here has helped you get and stay sober, please contribute to a local twelve step group.
Find out more at theirsober.press.
Style Guide
In order to be consistent in our remixing, and to ensure we're making the smallest possible changes without altering the message, we follow a style guide. The style guide is a living document found in styleguide.md.
Directory Structure
Markdown files of the original text are found in original while the remixed versions are found in remixed. We hold onto the original text so that curious people can diff the original and remixed versions to see what was changed.
Releases
We use a tool we made called alcobinder to render the remixed markdown files into a PDF while maintaining the original page numbers/names. Released versions of the remixed PDFs are under releases and published on thiersober.press.