Gathered, not owned.
How the reading room came together, whose work it rests on, and what the Fund believes about attribution, teachers, and the free movement of knowledge.
How it was gathered
Nothing in the library is ours except the shelving. Every entry is someone else's work, and most of the collection was first gathered by someone else too.
The larger part of the reading room, 411 entries, comes from TransformHarm.org, the resource hub Mariame Kaba built with collaborators to collect writing, recordings, and curricula on transformative justice, restorative justice, community accountability, abolition, healing justice, and carceral feminism. We pulled their catalogue through the site's public interface in October 2026, kept their descriptions, and link each entry to the original source and back to TransformHarm. Those entries are marked via TransformHarm. If you find the library useful, the debt is to them first.
The rest, 90 entries, we chose, with a line on why each is here. Those lines are ours and carry our judgments; argue with them.
Links go to publishers, to the organizations themselves, or to free copies where they exist. We do not host copies of anyone's work without their say, and we do not link to sites that sell what their authors have given away.
What we believe about this
Three commitments that shape how the library is kept.
- Attribution is a form of care.
Every idea in this work came from somewhere. We name where. Hollow Water is named on every page that uses its number. Hidden Water is named every time a circle is described. TransformHarm is named on every entry we took from it. When we forget, tell us, and we will fix it the same day.
- We name our teachers.
This practice has lineages: Indigenous circle practice, community accountability work by women of color, the Black radical tradition, survivors who built what did not exist for them. Naming teachers is how a practice stays honest about what it is and is not entitled to. The values page names ours; the library is where the receipts are kept.
- Knowledge should move freely.
We take the position sometimes called digital anarchism: that what we learn about responding to harm belongs to everyone who needs it, that gates, paywalls, tracking, and permission systems between a person and a text are themselves a kind of harm, and that infrastructure should be held by the communities who use it rather than by platforms that watch them. In practice: this site has no tracking; its fonts, code, and pages are served from here and nowhere else; the library is free to read, copy, and republish; and we are moving our hosting to 1984 Hosting, and our writing desk off proprietary platforms, as fast as a small organization can.
Using the library
Copy it. The list of entries, our notes included, may be reused by anyone for any purpose, with the same attribution we give: TransformHarm for their entries, the In Search of Peace Fund for ours. If you want the data as a file rather than a web page, ask and we will send it.
Add to it. If something belongs here and is missing, or a link has died, or a note is wrong, write to us. We add what we are sent, with your name beside it if you want it there.