A few places to begin.
Organizations
Hidden Water
New York & worldwideHealing circles for everyone touched by child sexual abuse: survivors, family members, and people who have caused harm.
Hollow Water
Hollow Water First Nation, ManitobaAn Anishinaabe community's Community Holistic Circle Healing, begun in the mid-1980s, responding to sexual abuse through circles for victims, offenders, and families.
The CHAT Project
Contra Costa County, CaliforniaCollective Healing and Transformation. Since 2018, restorative justice and circle process for domestic and sexual violence, outside of law enforcement.
Community Justice Initiatives
Kitchener, OntarioA longtime restorative justice organization. Its Revive program offers support groups, held separately, for people who have experienced sexual harm and people who have caused it.
The Ahimsa Collective
Oakland, CaliforniaFounded by Sonya Shah in 2016. Healing and accountability circles, including in prisons, survivor circles, and victim–offender dialogues.
The question underneath
What do we need in order to offer a community response to sexual harm that centers healing? A page on that is being written, with these organizations as its examples.
Reading room
501 books, articles, reports, toolkits, zines, films, recordings, and organizations on community responses to sexual harm. Many were first gathered by Mariame Kaba and collaborators at TransformHarm.org and are marked so. Search, or filter by type and topic. How this library was gathered.
- Book · 2020Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movemented. Ejeris Dixon & Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha (AK Press)
The widest single doorway into the practice: essays and case studies from people who have actually done it, including Philly Stands Up and generationFIVE.
- Book · 2016The Revolution Starts at Home: Confronting Intimate Violence Within Activist Communitiesed. Ching-In Chen, Jai Dulani & Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha (AK Press)
Began as a zine in 2008. Includes Shannon Perez-Darby's "The Secret Joy of Accountability."
- Book · 2021We Do This 'Til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming JusticeMariame Kaba (Haymarket)
Short essays and interviews; the chapters on accountability and on survivors are the ones to start with.
- Toolkit · 2019Fumbling Towards Repair: A Workbook for Community Accountability FacilitatorsMariame Kaba & Shira Hassan (Project NIA / AK Press)
Exercises, scripts, and hard-won cautions for anyone facilitating an accountability process.
- Toolkit · 2012Creative Interventions Toolkit: A Practical Guide to Stop Interpersonal ViolenceCreative Interventions / Mimi Kim (free PDF; AK Press edition 2021)
Six hundred pages, free. The most complete how-to for community-based intervention in intimate and sexual violence.
- Toolkit · 2017Ending Child Sexual Abuse: A Transformative Justice HandbookgenerationFIVE
The handbook that gave transformative justice its name in the context of child sexual abuse.
- Report · 2007Toward Transformative Justice: A Liberatory Approach to Child Sexual Abuse and Other Forms of Intimate and Community ViolencegenerationFIVE
The earlier position paper; still the clearest statement of why punishment and silence both fail children.
- Article · 2019Transformative Justice: A Brief DescriptionMia Mingus (Leaving Evidence)
Two pages. The definition most people quote.
- Article · 2019The Four Parts of Accountability: How to Give a Genuine ApologyMia Mingus (Leaving Evidence)
Self-reflection, apology, repair, changed behavior. Useful to hand to someone who has been asked to take responsibility.
- Article · 2019Dreaming AccountabilityMia Mingus (Leaving Evidence)
On accountability as something we might want for ourselves, rather than something done to us.
- Toolkit · 2016Pods and Pod Mapping WorksheetBay Area Transformative Justice Collective
Who would you call? A one-page exercise that makes "community" concrete.
- Toolkit · 2013Transformative Justice: A Curriculum GuideProject NIA
Lesson plans and exercises for teaching TJ in groups.
- Organization · 2019TransformHarm.orgMariame Kaba and collaborators
A resource hub: readings, videos, and curricula on TJ, community accountability, restorative justice, and healing justice.
- Organization · 2018Interrupting CriminalizationMariame Kaba & Andrea Ritchie
Research and organizing on the criminalization of women, girls, and trans and gender-nonconforming people, including survivors.
- Organization · 2015Survived & Punished
Organizing to free criminalized survivors of domestic and sexual violence. The clearest evidence that the criminal system punishes survivors too.
- Article · 2011Philly Stands Up: Inside the Politics and Poetics of Transformative Justice and Community Accountability in Sexual Assault SituationsEsteban Lance Kelly, Social Justice 37(4)
A collective that worked directly with people who had sexually assaulted others, written from the inside.
- Article · 2006Taking Risks: Implementing Grassroots Community Accountability StrategiesCommunities Against Rape and Abuse (CARA), in Color of Violence
Principles for survivor-centered accountability, from a Seattle collective. Often reprinted.
- Report · 2003Community Accountability: Working DocumentINCITE! Women of Color Against Violence
The founding document for a generation of community accountability work.
- Book · 2006Color of Violence: The INCITE! Anthologyed. INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence (Duke, 2016 ed.)
Where community accountability was argued out by women of color who could not go to the police.
- Book · 2019Feminist Accountability: Disrupting Violence and Transforming PowerAnn Russo (NYU Press)
Accountability as a daily practice rather than a crisis response.
- Book · 2022Saving Our Own Lives: A Liberatory Practice of Harm ReductionShira Hassan (Haymarket)
Harm reduction as a way of staying in relationship with people instead of policing them.
- Book · 2020We Will Not Cancel Us: And Other Dreams of Transformative Justiceadrienne maree brown (AK Press)
A short, contested argument about call-outs and what accountability needs to feel like to work.
- Book · 2021Holding Change: The Way of Emergent Strategy Facilitation and Mediationadrienne maree brown (AK Press)
On holding rooms where conflict and harm are present.
- Book · 2019I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl's Notes from the End of the WorldKai Cheng Thom (Arsenal Pulp)
Essays on justice, abuse, and community from inside queer and trans movements. See "Righteous Callings."
- Book · 2016Conflict Is Not Abuse: Overstating Harm, Community Responsibility, and the Duty of RepairSarah Schulman (Arsenal Pulp)
Widely argued with, which is a reason to read it: on how communities escalate, and the obligation to stay in conversation.
- Book · 2015The Little Book of Restorative Justice for Sexual Abuse: Hope through TraumaJudah Oudshoorn with Michelle Jackett & Lorraine Stutzman Amstutz (Good Books)
The one short book that is specifically about restorative justice and sexual abuse. Start here if you only read one.
- Book · 2015The Little Book of Restorative JusticeHoward Zehr (Good Books; revised ed.)
The primer. Zehr's three questions: who has been hurt, what do they need, whose obligation is it.
- Book · 2015Changing Lenses: Restorative Justice for Our TimesHoward Zehr (Herald Press; 25th-anniversary ed.)
The 1990 book that named restorative justice as a lens rather than a program.
- Book · 2005The Little Book of Circle Processes: A New/Old Approach to PeacemakingKay Pranis (Good Books)
How a circle works and why: the talking piece, the keeper, the rounds, the values.
- Book · 2003Peacemaking Circles: From Crime to CommunityKay Pranis, Barry Stuart & Mark Wedge (Living Justice Press)
The fullest account of circle practice as it came out of Yukon First Nations communities and into courts.
- Book · 2015Circle Forward: Building a Restorative School CommunityCarolyn Boyes-Watson & Kay Pranis (Living Justice Press)
Hundreds of circle scripts. Written for schools; keepers borrow from it constantly.
- Book · 2010Heart of Hope: A Guide for Using Peacemaking Circles to Develop Emotional Literacy, Promote Healing & Build Healthy RelationshipsCarolyn Boyes-Watson & Kay Pranis (Living Justice Press)
Circle plans for grief, shame, anger, and repair.
- Book · 1996Returning to the Teachings: Exploring Aboriginal JusticeRupert Ross (Penguin Canada)
A Crown prosecutor's account of Hollow Water and other Indigenous responses to sexual abuse that put healing before punishment.
- Book · 2014Indigenous Healing: Exploring Traditional PathsRupert Ross (Penguin Canada)
Ross's later book, on healing from colonial and intergenerational trauma.
- Report · 1997The Four Circles of Hollow WaterPublic Safety Canada / Aboriginal Peoples Collection
The government report on Hollow Water's Community Holistic Circle Healing, including its thirteen-step process.
- Film · 2000Hollow Waterdir. Bonnie Dickie (National Film Board of Canada), 48 min
Free to stream. Community members, including people who abused and people who were abused, speak on camera.
- Book · 2015The Beginning and End of Rape: Confronting Sexual Violence in Native AmericaSarah Deer (University of Minnesota Press)
Rape as a tool of colonization, and tribal sovereignty as a response. Deer is a MacArthur fellow and Muscogee (Creek) Nation citizen.
- Book · 2005Conquest: Sexual Violence and American Indian GenocideAndrea Smith (South End Press; Duke reissue)
Argues that sexual violence against Native women cannot be separated from the state that claims to prosecute it.
- Book · 2002Restorative Justice and Family Violenceed. Heather Strang & John Braithwaite (Cambridge University Press)
Academic collection with the main feminist critiques of restorative justice for gendered violence, and the main replies.
- Book · 2017Restorative Responses to Sexual Violence: Legal, Social and Therapeutic Dimensionsed. Estelle Zinsstag & Marie Keenan (Routledge)
The standard international survey of programs and evidence.
- Report · 2014Sexual Trauma and Abuse: Restorative and Transformative Possibilities?Marie Keenan (University College Dublin)
Interviews with survivors, people who offended, and practitioners in Ireland about what restorative processes could offer.
- Article · 2012"I Just Wanted Him to Hear Me": Sexual Violence and the Possibilities of Restorative JusticeClare McGlynn, Nicole Westmarland & Nikki Godden, Journal of Law and Society 39(2)
A single case, closely followed. One of the most-cited studies of what a survivor actually got from a conference.
- Article · 2019Kaleidoscopic Justice: Sexual Violence and Victim-Survivors' Perceptions of JusticeClare McGlynn & Nicole Westmarland, Social & Legal Studies 28(2)
Survivors describe justice as consequences, recognition, dignity, voice, prevention, and connection; the criminal trial delivers almost none of them.
- Article · 2006Restorative Justice and Sexual Assault: An Archival Study of Court and Conference OutcomesKathleen Daly, British Journal of Criminology 46(2)
Compared youth sexual-assault cases that went to court with those that went to conference in South Australia.
- Article · 2014The RESTORE Program of Restorative Justice for Sex Crimes: Vision, Process, and OutcomesMary P. Koss, Journal of Interpersonal Violence 29(9)
Arizona's prosecutor-referred restorative program for adult sexual assault, with outcomes.
- Report · 2010Project Restore: An Exploratory Study of Restorative Justice and Sexual ViolenceShirley Jülich et al. (AUT University, New Zealand)
Survivor-led restorative justice in Aotearoa, with survivor and offender specialists in every conference.
- Book · 2019Healing from Sexual Violence: The Case for Vicarious Restorative JusticeAlissa Ackerman & Jill Levenson (Safer Society Press)
Survivors and people who have offended, unrelated to each other, in dialogue. Ackerman writes as a survivor and criminologist.
- Organization · 1994Circles of Support and AccountabilityCoSA Canada
Volunteer circles around people leaving prison after sexual offences. Decades of evidence that company reduces reoffending.
- Article · 2009Circles of Support and Accountability: A Canadian National Replication of Outcome FindingsRobin J. Wilson, Franca Cortoni & Andrew McWhinnie, Sexual Abuse 21(4)
The replication study most often cited for CoSA's effect on sexual reoffending.
- Article · 2018A Different Path for Confronting Sexual Assaultsujatha baliga (Vox)
Written during the Kavanaugh hearings by a survivor and restorative justice practitioner.
- Book · 2019The Little Book of Restorative Justice for Colleges and UniversitiesDavid R. Karp (Good Books)
Includes restorative options for campus sexual misconduct; see also the Campus PRISM project.
- Organization · 2015Impact Justice: Restorative Justice Project
Trains and supports restorative justice diversion programs across the U.S.
- Book · 2020The Feminist and the Sex Offender: Confronting Sexual Harm, Ending State ViolenceJudith Levine & Erica R. Meiners (Verso)
On sex-offender registries and civil commitment as feminist failures, and what accountability without the state could be.
- Book · 2019Love WITH Accountability: Digging Up the Roots of Child Sexual Abuseed. Aishah Shahidah Simmons (AK Press)
Black survivors, family members, and people who caused harm write about accountability inside families and communities.
- Article · 2014Against Carceral FeminismVictoria Law (Jacobin)
The short essay that put the phrase in common use.
- Article · 2007The Sexual Politics of the "New Abolitionism"Elizabeth Bernstein, differences 18(3)
Where "carceral feminism" was coined, in a study of anti-trafficking campaigns.
- Article · 2018From Carceral Feminism to Transformative Justice: Women-of-Color Feminism and Alternatives to IncarcerationMimi E. Kim, Journal of Ethnic & Cultural Diversity in Social Work 27(3)
A history of how community accountability grew out of women-of-color organizing against both violence and policing.
- Article · 2020The Carceral Creep: Gender-Based Violence, Race, and the Expanding Carceral StateMimi E. Kim, Social Problems
How the anti-violence movement became entangled with policing, told through its own archives.
- Book · 2012Arrested Justice: Black Women, Violence, and America's Prison NationBeth E. Richie (NYU Press)
How the anti-violence movement's success came at the cost of Black women who were both harmed and criminalized.
- Book · 2022Abolition. Feminism. Now.Angela Y. Davis, Gina Dent, Erica R. Meiners & Beth E. Richie (Haymarket)
Abolition and feminism as one movement, with gender violence at the center.
- Book · 2020The Feminist War on Crime: The Unexpected Role of Women's Liberation in Mass IncarcerationAya Gruber (University of California Press)
A legal historian's account, sympathetic to feminism and unsparing about where it went.
- Book · 2018Decriminalizing Domestic Violence: A Balanced Policy Approach to Intimate Partner ViolenceLeigh Goodmark (University of California Press)
Makes the case, with evidence, that criminalization has not made survivors safer.
- Book · 2023Imperfect Victims: Criminalized Survivors and the Promise of Abolition FeminismLeigh Goodmark (University of California Press)
Survivors prosecuted for surviving.
- Book · 2019Until We Reckon: Violence, Mass Incarceration, and a Road to RepairDanielle Sered (The New Press)
From the founder of Common Justice. Not about sexual harm specifically, but the best argument that accountability and punishment are different things.
- Report · 2017Accounting for Violence: How to Increase Safety and Break Our Failed Reliance on Mass IncarcerationDanielle Sered (Vera Institute of Justice)
Free. Four principles for responses to violence: survivor-centered, accountability-based, safety-driven, racially equitable.
- Book · 2018Rape and Resistance: Understanding the Complexities of Sexual ViolationLinda Martín Alcoff (Polity)
A philosopher and survivor on how we come to know and speak about sexual violation.
- Book · 2021Sexual Justice: Supporting Victims, Ensuring Due Process, and Resisting the Conservative BacklashAlexandra Brodsky (Metropolitan Books)
On fair process for both parties outside the criminal courts: schools, workplaces, communities.
- Book · 1992Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence, from Domestic Abuse to Political TerrorJudith Herman (Basic Books)
The foundational book on trauma, and on recovery as something that happens in relationship.
- Book · 2023Truth and Repair: How Trauma Survivors Envision JusticeJudith Herman (Basic Books)
Thirty years later: Herman asks survivors what justice would be, and most of them do not describe a trial.
- Article · 2005Justice from the Victim's PerspectiveJudith Herman, Violence Against Women 11(5)
The article that preceded Truth and Repair.
- Book · 2023Healing Together: A Family Guide to Recovering from Sexual HarmElizabeth Clemants
From the founder of Hidden Water. Written for families in which the harm happened.
- Book · 2008The Courage to Heal: A Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual AbuseEllen Bass & Laura Davis (Harper; 20th-anniversary ed.)
The classic survivor guide, first published in 1988.
- Book · 1991Allies in Healing: When the Person You Love Was Sexually Abused as a ChildLaura Davis (Harper)
For partners and family. Still the most-recommended book for loved ones.
- Book · 2004Victims No Longer: The Classic Guide for Men Recovering from Sexual Child AbuseMike Lew (Harper; 2nd ed.)
The first book written for men who were abused as boys.
- Book · 1990Abused Boys: The Neglected Victims of Sexual AbuseMic Hunter (Fawcett)
An early clinical and personal account; dated in places, still cited.
- Book · 2019Know My NameChanel Miller (Viking)
A memoir of the trial, and of everything the trial could not hold.
- Book · 2021Unbound: My Story of Liberation and the Birth of the Me Too MovementTarana Burke (Flatiron)
Burke's own account, which begins in childhood and in community.
- Book · 2014The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of TraumaBessel van der Kolk (Viking)
On why the body matters in recovery. Read alongside critiques of it.
- Article · 2020Facing Shame: From Saying Sorry to Doing SorryNathan Shara, in Beyond Survival
On the difference between feeling bad and taking responsibility, from someone who works with people who have caused harm.
- Zine · 2004Support: A Zine on How to Support Survivors of Sexual AbuseCindy Crabb and friends (Doris)
Photocopied for twenty years. Plain advice for friends and partners.
- Zine · 2016Learning Good Consented. Cindy Crabb (AK Press)
A collection of consent zines from the punk and anarchist communities that did this work early.
- Zine · 2008Taking the First Step: Suggestions to People Called Out for Abusive BehaviorPhilly's Pissed / Philly Stands Up
A short zine to hand to someone who has been told they hurt somebody.
- Film · 2017A Better Mandir. Attiya Khan & Lawrence Jackman, 79 min
A survivor sits down with the man who abused her twenty years earlier, on camera, with a counselor. Domestic rather than sexual violence, and the closest thing on film to a facilitated dialogue.
- Film · 2017The Workdir. Jairus McLeary & Gethin Aldous, 89 min
Four days inside a group-therapy circle at Folsom State Prison. Not about sexual harm, but about what men do in a circle when it is safe enough.
- Organization · 1992Stop It Now!
Confidential helpline (1-888-773-8368) and resources for adults worried about their own or someone else's behavior toward children.
- Organization · 1992Lucy Faithfull Foundation / Stop It Now UK & Ireland
The UK's child-protection charity that works directly with people who have offended or are worried they might.
- Organization · 2012Moore Center for the Prevention of Child Sexual AbuseJohns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Public-health research on preventing child sexual abuse before it happens, including the Help Wanted program for people attracted to minors who have not offended.
- Organization · 20071in6
Online helpline and weekly online support groups for men with unwanted or abusive childhood sexual experiences.
- Organization · 1995MaleSurvivor
Peer forums, weekends of recovery, and a directory of therapists for male survivors.
- Organization · 2008Common Justice
Restorative alternatives to incarceration for violent felonies in New York. (Does not take sexual-harm cases, but the model is instructive.)
- PDF · via TransformHarmIn It TogetherInterrupting Criminalization
A Framework for Conflict Transformation In Movement-Building Groups This toolkit provides a step-by-step diagnostic tool to assess conflict in movement-building organizations and groups and provides strategies, tools, and resources to transform that…
- Audio · via TransformHarmTending Our SoilMia Mingus
- Website · via TransformHarmYou are more than the worst thing you did
- Website · via TransformHarmSo You’re Ready to Choose LoveKai Cheng Thom
This free digital (and printable) conflict resolution workbook is intended as a gift and humble offering to anyone looking for trauma-informed, anti-oppressive conflict resolution resources. While SO YOU’RE READY TO CHOOSE LOVE is self-published in the…
- Website · via TransformHarmAccountability Process CurriculumSupport New York
Support New York is dedicated to healing the effects of sexual assault and abuse. Our aim is to empower survivors, to hold accountable those who have perpetuated harm, and to maintain a community dialogue about consent, mutual aid, transformative justice,…
- Website · via TransformHarmTransformative Justice: A List of Resources
Prison Culture is an attempt to document how the current prison industrial complex operates and to underscore the ways that it structures American society. I created this blog as way to make sense of all of the information that comes my way through…
- Website · via TransformHarmWhat Really Makes Us Safe?
About ‘What Really Makes Us Safe?’ The “What really makes us safe?” research project began as an informal exchange between organizers working on community accountability and transformative justice responses to sexual violence. As the initiator of the…
- Website · via TransformHarmReading ListSupport New York
We’ve provided links to purchase many of our suggested readings, but you can also track them down at your local library or infoshop. Many of these books are out of print, so when available we’ve linked used copies. Otherwise, the library is probably the…
- Video · via TransformHarmMia Mingus of the Bay Area Transformative Justice CollectiveMia Mingus
In this conversation about transformative justice and healing, Mia Mingus of the Bay Area Transformative Justice Collective poses the questions, “What is accountability? What is justice?” How can our movements be survivor-centered? What IS community? Full…
- Video · via TransformHarmTransformative Justice (Build Abolition 101 at CCSF)
In the first session of Build Abolition 101 at CCSF, we are join by TGI Justice Project communications director Eli Berry-St John, who gives an overview of Transformative Justice, and discusses community accountability. Subtitles will be added in the next…
- Audio · via TransformHarmFinding Our Way: Harm, Punishment, and Abolition with Mariame KabaMariame Kaba
In this episode, Prentis sits with activist, organizer, educator, and author, Mariame Kaba, to discuss abolition and its connection to healing work. This conversation asks us to confront difficult truths about our enacting of relationships, our striving…
- Audio · via TransformHarmS2 Ep7: Navigating Conflict with Kazu Haga
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With all of the exploitation and abuse in the world, it’s tempting to become numb or cynical. But adrienne maree brown, a thinker and transformative justice practitioner, is charting a different way forward with love as her guiding principle. Her…
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- Website · via TransformHarmAgainst Punishment: A Resource by Project NIA and Interrupting CriminalizationProject NIA
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There are perhaps millions of folks currently incarcerated carrying the pain of some form of violence, either as a survivor of violence or as an harm doer, or both. In addition to this pain, they’re also suffering from other traumas associated with…
- Video · via TransformHarmAbolition Feminism: The Heart and Soul of Transformative JusticeAlisa Bierria, Beth E. Richie
Follow the original source link for the video
- Audio · via TransformHarmBeyond SurvivalEjeris Dixon, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
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In the wake of the police killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Rayshard Brooks, protesters have taken to the streets against the violence of policing and to make demands, including defunding policing. That demand is gaining traction as organizers…
- Article · via TransformHarmCommunity Organizers Address Sexual Violence Without the Criminal Justice SystemNicole Froio
When college student L. saw photos of her feet in a boy’s Snapchat, she felt scared. She had never consented to those photos being taken, let alone shared on a Snapchat account, where the boy was constructing a romantic narrative for both of them without…
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Thanks to all of you—over 125 strong—who joined us on Zoom and Facebook Live for this week’s webinar, Supporting Black-led Community Safety and Abolition for NYC! We got a fantastic download from both Piper Anderson and Ejeris Dixon of how New York City’s…
- Article · via TransformHarmNavigating Justice For Sexual Abuse Survivors, When You’re A Prison Abolitionist And A SurvivorJoshua Briond
I want to heal. I want to feel safe. I want us, as a society, to get to the point where we are more invested in the survivor’s healing than we are punishing the assailants. However, I’m not supposed to say that. I’m not even supposed to think that. I feel…
- Video · via TransformHarmWe Take Care Of Us Webinar #7: Transformative JusticeMia Mingus, Mimi Kim
This week we hosted Mimi Kim and Mia Mingus, who sat down with our executive director, Cat Brooks, to discuss strategies to intervene, disrupt and heal from interpersonal violence without relying on the state. We’ll talk about what transformative justice…
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- Video · via TransformHarmIntroduction to Restorative JusticeProject NIA
Part of the The Janine Soleil Abolitionist Youth Organizing Institute (AYO, NYC!)—a collaboration between Project NIA & EFA Project Space. Restorative Justice challenges us to recognize each other’s humanity and to concern ourselves with accountability…
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Alex Vitale interviews Ejeris Dixon and Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha about their edited book Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement.
- Video · via TransformHarmMoving at the Speed of Trust: Disability Justice and Transformative JusticeLeah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Elliott Fukui
Live transcript (PDF): http://bcrw.barnard.edu/wp-content/up… We are working on a word-for-word transcript that will be posted here when it becomes available. Slide deck (PDF) by Elliott and Leah featuring important definitions, notes, and frameworks for…
- Article · via TransformHarmAn open letter to the former Commune Magazine editor who raped meLeila Raven
You asked me many times: “Why me? Why do you keep coming back?” I told you that I was listening to my body, and my body was hooked. I didn’t know then, but I know now, that when post-traumatic stress disorder is activated, it can feel a lot like being…
- Website · via TransformHarmAddressing Sexual HarassmentVision Change
Helping organizations deepen their knowledge, define and better align with their values, and conduct long-term planning. Click original source link above.
- Article · via TransformHarmWe Want a World Without Police. These Organizers Are Charting the Way.Victoria Law
Photography: Love & Struggle What does working toward a world without prisons look like? How would we address harm without calling police or relying on imprisonment? Those are the questions that longtime anti-violence organizers Ejeris Dixon and Leah…
- Audio · via TransformHarmOn Moving Past PunishmentMariame Kaba
If we want a just & humane world, we must create one in which apparatuses of oppression are no longer considered reasonable. This week on For The Wild, we are joined by Mariame Kaba for an expansive conversation on Transformative Justice, community…
- Website · via TransformHarmSocialist Feminist Working Group: Transformative Justice Syllabus
- PDF · via TransformHarmMy Transformative Justice WorkbookVirginia Sexual & Domestic Violence Action Alliance
- Video · via TransformHarmLiberated Ways of Addressing HarmMariame Kaba, Mia Mingus
A webinar conversation with movement leaders from the fields of transformative justice, healing justice, and prison abolition. Participants: Mariame Kaba, Bay Area Transformative Justice CollectiveMia Mingus, Bay Area Transformative Justice…
- Article · via TransformHarmTransformative Justice: A Brief DescriptionMia Mingus
This was written for a transformative justice (TJ) intervention I led and I’m sharing it here for others to use in their work. It was meant to be a brief description for those who are not as familiar with the framework and orientation of TJ and do not have…
- PDF · via TransformHarmMiklat-MiklatMicah Bazant, Lewis Wallace
- Article · via TransformHarmWhat is/isn’t transformative justice?adrienne maree brown
I’ve been thinking a lot about transformative justice lately. In the past few months I’ve been to a couple of gatherings I was really excited about, and then found myself disappointed, not because drama kicked up, which is inevitable, but because of how we…
- Article · via TransformHarmBuilding Community Safety: Practical Steps Toward Liberatory TransformationEjeris Dixon
Mom, when you were growing up, did you ever call the police? I can’t remember any time that we did. What did you do if something violent happened? It depended on the situation. Often we could send for the uncles, brothers, fathers, or other family members…
- Article · via TransformHarmA Look At Feminist Forms Of Justice That Don’t Involve The PoliceKristian Williams
This is an excerpt from the book Our Enemies in Blue: Police and Power in America, whose third edition came out from AK Press this July. In the early seventies, while the Black Panthers were making kids breakfast and training with guns, the women’s…
- Article · via TransformHarmStill Choosing to Leap: Building AlternativesMia Mingus
I am engaged in the work of building transformative justice responses to child sexual abuse with the Bay Area Transformative Justice Collective (The BATJC). We are a local collective and we are not a nonprofit because we believe that it will not allow us…
- Article · via TransformHarmWhat Would it Take to Actually End Intimate Violence?Miriam Zoila Pérez
Transformative justice activist Mia Mingus reflects on responding to sexual assault without creating more harm. Mia Mingus is a longtime social justice activist and a transnational and transracial Korean adoptee raised in the U.S. Virgin Islands. Mingus is…
- Article · via TransformHarmCommunities Need to Reduce Violence Against Women of Color Without PoliceAndrea J. Ritchie
Invisible No More is a timely examination of police violence against Black women, Indigenous women and other women of color. “Thanks to Andrea Ritchie’s thorough research and raw storytelling,” says Robin D.G. Kelley about the book, “we can finally begin…
- Article · via TransformHarmChallenging Men, Changing Communities: Reflections on Male Supremacy and Transformative JusticeGaurav Jashnani, RJ Maccani, Alan Greig
Since 2008, the three coauthors of this essay have been working together as the Challenging Male Supremacy Project (CMS). Thus far CMS has aimed to be an intervention into the organizing and activist communities of New York City, an effort to concretely…
- Article · via TransformHarmWe Will Not Cancel Usadrienne maree brown
We will not cancel us. We hurt people. Of course we did, we are human. We were traumatized/socialized away from interdependence. We learned to hide everything real, everything messy, weak, complex. We learned that fake shit hurts, but it’s acceptable. Our…
- Article · via TransformHarmArresting the Carceral StateMariame Kaba, Erica R. Meiners
In 2013, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) published a listicle on Buzzfeed highlighting the egregious ways young people have been criminalized in American schools. Titled “Eleven Students Whose Punishments We Wish Were Made Up,” examples included…
- Article · via TransformHarmPrelude to TransformationSean Norris
While both learning and doing Transformative Justice work there have been many eye opening moments, maybe none more eye opening than this realization: We will not live to see the change we are building toward. I am in no way saying that this is some…
- Audio · via TransformHarmThe Practices We Need: metoo and Transformative Justice Part 2Mariame Kaba
Today the Brown sisters talk with transformative justice practitioner Mariame Kaba (@prisonculture) and get our minds blown with frameworks and breakthroughs on how to really address harm and grow beyond it. Music by Mother…
- Article · via TransformHarmi hope we choose love: notes on the application of justiceKai Cheng Thom
“You have the right to tell your story … You do not have the right to traumatize abusive people, to attack them publicly, or to sabotage anyone else’s health. The behaviors of abuse are also survival based, learned behaviors rooted in some pain. If you can…
- PDF · via TransformHarmA Not So Typical Night Out
- PDF · via TransformHarmEnding Child Sexual Abusegeneration FIVE
Spanish Version | Catalan Version Ending Child Sexual Abuse: A Transformative Justice Handbook, written and released in 2017, draws on a decade of learning since the release of generationFIVE’s Toward Transformative Justice document. It is designed to be…
- Video · via TransformHarmTransformative JusticeZehr Institute
Zehr Institute for Restorative Justice February 15, 2017 Guest: RJ Maccani, Nathaniel Shara, and Ejeris Dixon Host: Dr. Johonna Turner What is transformative justice? What can restorative justice thinkers, scholars and practitioners learn from the…
- PDF · via TransformHarmTransformative Justice – A Curriculum GuideSupport New York
Support New York is dedicated to healing the effects of sexual assault and abuse. Our aim is to empower survivors, to hold accountable those who have perpetuated harm, and to maintain a community dialogue about consent, mutual aid, transformative justice,…
- PDF · via TransformHarmTransformative JusticeMia Mingus
- PDF · via TransformHarmWhat about the rapists? Anarchist approaches to crime & justice
- PDF · via TransformHarmTransformative Justice – A Curriculum GuideProject NIA
- Audio · via TransformHarmInterview with Leah Lakshmi Piepzna SamarasinhaLeah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
- PDF · via TransformHarmWhat Does It Feel Like When Change Finally Comes: Male Supremacy, Accountability and Transformative JusticeGaurav Jashnani, RJ Maccani, Alan Greig
- Video · via TransformHarmResisting Gender Violence Without Cops or PrisonsVictoria Law
An interview with author Victoria Law By Angola 3 News Activist and journalist Victoria Law is the author of “Resistance Behind Bars: The Struggles of Incarcerated Women” (PM Press, 2009). Law has previously been interviewed by Angola 3 News on two…
- Video · via TransformHarmPhilly Stands UP – Transformative JusticePhilly Stands Up
Horizontal power Hour interviews Jenna Peters Golden of Philly Stands UP, a collective that challenges and finds alternatives to the structural underpinning behind sexual violence.
- Video · via TransformHarmAddressing Trauma: Generation 5generation FIVE
In order to respond more effectively to harm and abuse within our communities, a growing number of activists are developing liberatory programs to address harm and trauma without resorting to oppressive and retaliatory systems. Micah Frazier works with…
- PDF · via TransformHarmToward Transformative Justice: A Liberatory Approach to Child Sexual Abuse and other forms of Intimate and Community Violencegeneration FIVE
Toward Transformative Justice: A Liberatory Approach to Child Sexual Abuse and other forms of Intimate and Community Violence was written and distributed in 2007 to introduce and invite wider engagement with transformative justice amongst Left activists…
- PDF · via TransformHarmBuilding Violence Free CommunitiesIncite!
- PDF · via TransformHarmTurning Towards Eachother: A Conflict WorkbookCommunity Resource Hub
So what do we do when we inevitably run into conflict? This was the question on our minds when we wrote a new conflict workbook for groups working towards a shared purpose. As two people who come from community-building and social movement backgrounds, we…
- Video · via TransformHarmWhat Is Restorative Justice? An Alternative Approach to Crime and ViolenceTeenVogue
What do successful alternatives to policing, prosecution, and prison actually look like? And how would they work? A group of Chicago’s leading public safety, health, and justice innovators gathered at the DePaul Art Museum last summer to provide…
- Website · via TransformHarmRestorative Justice Listening ProjectZehr Institute
- Website · via TransformHarmA Diversion Toolkit for CommunitiesRestorative Justice Project
Sharing Experience, Shifting the Paradigm The Restorative Justice Project at Impact Justice partners with communities across the nation to address harm through dialogue among those most impacted. We work to shift the paradigm from seeing crime as a…
- Video · via TransformHarmEuropean Forum for Restorative JusticeEuropean Forum for Restorative Justice
A list of movies on RJ (but also more in general on offenders´ rehabilitation, conflict resolution, peace, forgiveness and justice) has been collected during the EU-funded project “Accessibility and Initiation of Restorative Justice” (in the context of…
- Video · via TransformHarmThe Neuroscience of Restorative JusticeDaniel Reisel
Dan Reisel studies the biology of change, including our ability to rewire our own brains. And he asks a big question: Instead of warehousing these criminals, shouldn’t we be using what we know about the brain to help them rehabilitate? Put another way: If…
- Video · via TransformHarmHealing Justicesujatha baliga, Shakti Butler
- Audio · via TransformHarmStorytelling & Organizing Projectcreative interventions
Here you will find audio clips and transcripts from some of STOP’s stories. You will also find information about our project partners, discussion questions and resources for using STOP stories in your own work to intervene in interpersonal violence, as…
- Video · via TransformHarmTransform ChicagoTransform Chicago
This page features Chicago-specific videos/films that address themselves to restorative and/or transformative justice.
- Website · via TransformHarmRestorative PostersRestorative Posters
We are hoping that people will use the posters and the questions in every community. We want the questions to foster dialogue and lead to less punishment and more accountability in our communities. We have to pre-figure the world in which we want to live.…
- Video · via TransformHarmStories of Violence, Accountability, and HealingEver After
Until we tell new and more complete stories about violence and its aftermath, we will never be able to transform our responses to it or to keep people safe and well. With Ever After, we are telling those stories: stories of who have survived harm and…
- Audio · via TransformHarmHow to Do #MeToo Without Prisonsunladylike media
Is it possible to combat sexual violence and support survivors without sending perpetrators to prison? Dr. Alissa Ackerman, a sex crimes policy expert and rape survivor, thinks so. In part two of two episodes reconsidering mainstream feminism’s reliance on…
- Video · via TransformHarmThe Importance of Community-Held Restorative Justice ProgramsThe Annie E. Casey Foundation
This hour-long webinar is geared toward youth justice practitioners, racial justice advocates and leaders of youth-oriented community-based organizations. Restorative justice provides an effective way to address wrongdoing and do right by the people…
- Video · via TransformHarmWhat is Restorative Justice?Impact Justice
Impact Justice’s National Training and Innovation Center for Restorative Justice Diversion offers its first webinar in our intro three-part series: What is Restorative Justice? Featuring Restorative Justice Project Co-Directors, Ashlee George and Cymone…
- Video · via TransformHarmRace and Restorative JusticeAmalia Mesa
- Video · via TransformHarmRestorative Justice at HomeNYC Transformative Justice Hub, Jennifer Viets
How can we use family Talking Circles to deepen our closest relationships with honest and open communication? What would it mean to intentionally create our own family values? What is a restorative conversation, and how can we use them to practice naming…
- Website · via TransformHarmTalking Circles At Home and Parenting RestorativelyJennifer Viets
- Audio · via TransformHarmMaking AmendsMaking Amends Podcast
MAKING AMENDS FEATURES SIX MEN INCARCERATED AT THE OREGON STATE PENITENTIARY. THEY SHARE STORIES ABOUT THEIR STRUGGLE TO ATONE FOR THE ACTIONS THAT BROUGHT THEM TO PRISON. For several weeks in the early part of 2020, Professor Steve Herbert taught a class…
- Audio · via TransformHarmThe Transformative Power of Restorative JusticeEzra Klein
The criminal justice system asks three questions: What law was broken? Who broke it? And what should the punishment be? Upon that edifice — and channeled through old bigotries and fears — we have built the largest system of human incarceration on earth.…
- Audio · via TransformHarmCity Visions: MacArthur ‘Genius’ sujatha baliga on the promise of restorative justicesujatha baliga
- PDF · via TransformHarmA National Portrait of Restorative Approaches to Intimate Partner ViolenceCenter for Court Innovation
- Audio · via TransformHarmEpisode 36: Tell Christy I Love HerEar Hustle
- Video · via TransformHarmMother’s CirclePrecious Blood Ministry of Reconciliation
Sister Donna Liette explains the significance of the Mother’s Circle, a space provided by Precious Blood Ministry of Reconciliation bringing together mothers who have lost children to gun violence and mothers whose sons have been incarcerated for that same…
- Article · via TransformHarmPunishment is Not Justice | Defying Definitions After Sexual ViolenceWendy C. Ortiz
Fourteen years after writing the first draft of my memoir, I was standing in front of audiences, published book in hand, reading about the period of my life in which I was, as most readers understand it, the victim of a predatory man, namely my junior high…
- Website · via TransformHarmThe Road to Repair: Restorative Justice in the Aftermath of Serious Violence and HarmWSCADV
A panel of restorative justice and community-based practitioners share the models they apply to support those responsible for violence in their accountability, and those who have survived in their healing and resilience. Presenters describe values,…
- PDF · via TransformHarmConflict as PropertyNils Christie
- Article · via TransformHarmStudents Push for Restorative Approaches to Campus Sexual AssaultKerry Cardoza
From 2007 to 2011, Suzy Exposito was a busy, ambitious art student at The New School in New York City. She was always hustling. She had a full schedule of classes, worked multiple jobs and was also involved in extracurricular activities, including…
- Article · via TransformHarmThe Rapist Next DoorJohn D. Sutter
Videos and photography by Brandon Ancil Stand outside Ruth’s wooden home here in Alaska and you’ll hear only an occasional sound: A plane buzzes overhead, a reminder that the only way in or out of this village at this time of year is by air. Snowmobile…
- Website · via TransformHarmWebinar: Transforming Violence: Restorative Justice, Violent Crime, and an end to Mass IncarcerationZehr Institute
Sered will discuss the use of restorative justice in cases of serious violent crime such as robbery and assault. Common Justice, the organization she leads, operates a restorative justice program that serves as an alternative to prison in the adult…
- Audio · via TransformHarmA survivor and her perpetrator find justiceReckonings
‘I wanted him to be standing with me, and telling our story with me, in a way that didn’t just write us into the categories of angelic survivor and evil assaulter. And I think I even told the audience — if this person comes forward to tell his story, I…
- Article · via TransformHarmRestorative Justice Is Bringing Humanity Back to Some Survivors of AssaultEmily Reynolds
Claire was in her first semester of college when she was raped. “I was hanging out drinking with a bunch of kids,” she says. “I’d never drunk to the point of blacking out until that evening. It was the first time that ever happened to me. And somebody who…
- Article · via TransformHarmA different path for confronting sexual assaultsujatha baliga
“When I was crying, that was no,” Sofia yelled. “When I pushed your hands away, that was no! And when I said, ‘I’m not that kind of girl,’ that was NO! I want to know what you were thinking. What were you thinking?” I was sitting with Sofia, 15 years old,…
- Article · via TransformHarmReconciling Rage and Compassion: the Unfolding MeToo Moment for Junot DiazAya de Leon
It’s time to tell the whole truth about Junot Diaz. Last month, he came out with a powerful piece in the New Yorker about having been raped as a boy. He connected the dots to his own toxic behavior in relationships where he abandoned and betrayed his…
- Website · via TransformHarmThe Zehr Institute for Restorative JusticeZehr Institute
The Zehr Institute for Restorative Justice, founded in autumn 2012, is a program of the Center for Justice and Peacebuilding at Eastern Mennonite University. The Zehr Institute advocates for restorative justice as a social movement, and is also a convener…
- Article · via TransformHarmI’m a Campus Sexual Assault Activist. It’s Time to Reimagine How We Punish Sex Crimes.Sofie Karasek
I’ve told my story many times — I was assaulted, I reported it to my university, and it swept it under the rug. When I was 19, I helped create the wave of activism around the issue of campus sexual assault that made headlines from 2013 to 2016. The student…
- Article · via TransformHarmConsenting to Normalhyejin shim
In the #MeToo moment, the policing of those who speak up about varying forms of sexual violence and harm remains: the good victim/bad victim, real victim/fake victim paradigm has not gone away, it has merely shifted. And even then, not by much. The…
- Article · via TransformHarm#NotYet: Why I Won’t Publicly Name AbusersKai Cheng Thom
I’d like to believe that a better world is on her way. Certainly, the times we live in feel like the shuddering, revolutionary convulsions that precede the birth of a new sociopolitical paradigm. The problem with revolutions, of course, is that people die…
- Article · via TransformHarmPunishing “Predators” Will Not Save UsKelly Hayes
Protesters attend a “Me Too” rally to denounce sexual harassment and assaults of women in Los Angeles, California, on November 12, 2017. (Photo: Ronen Tivony / NurPhoto via Getty Images) Ten years before Alyssa Milano turned #MeToo into a viral hashtag,…
- PDF · via TransformHarmCities of Peace CurriculumCities of Peace
- Video · via TransformHarmRestorative Justice: Why do We Need It?Brave New Films
There’s an alternative to our current, failing criminal justice system.
- PDF · via TransformHarmPlanning to Identify, Prevent and Challenge Gendered Violence in ActivismProject Salvage
- Article · via TransformHarmSmall SeedsThe Living Bridges Project
Many people think that the stories I’m collecting will be huge, sweeping success stories. Stories where everything turns out good and everyone is safe, healed, accountable and forgiven. Stories where “justice” is as clear as the Caribbean water I grew up…
- Video · via TransformHarmThe Power of CirclesEthan Viets-VanLear
Healing begets healing: restorative justice practices offer a pathway for individual healing for both the person who has been harmed and the person who perpetrated the harm. Rather than defaulting to punitive measures that are more often than not…
- Article · via TransformHarmAbuser and Survivor, Face to FaceLeah Sottile
Can restorative justice, in which offenders talk with people who have been harmed by their crime, work for domestic-violence cases? And who exactly does it benefit? The cops only came once for Kimberly and Jason.It was 2000, and Kimberly was 5 foot 2, 100…
- Video · via TransformHarmRestorative Justice Forum VoiceEthan Viets-VanLear
Alderman Harry Osterman (48th Ward), Joe Moore (49th Ward), James Cappleman (46th Ward), the Children and Family Justice Center, and multiple North Side community agencies hosted a Restorative Justice Forum. Over 150 community members and juvenile justice…
- Video · via TransformHarmA Different Approach to School SafetyDebbie Southorn
On January 16th, 2013, President Obama announced a comprehensive plan to address gun violence. There were several proposals including those focused on school safety. Part of the plan enables U.S. public schools to hire up to 1,000 more school police or…
- Video · via TransformHarmRestorative Welcome and Reentry CircleOUSD News
- Video · via TransformHarmRestoring HopeLeah Varjacques
A look at how a community-based, arts-infused restorative justice program fits into the cultural movement fighting for hope and healing in an overwhelmingly punitive system.
- PDF · via TransformHarmTikkun | Restorative JusticeKay Pranis, Tikkun.org
- Video · via TransformHarmChicago Restorative & Transformative Justice in ActionGretchen Hasse
The following video was created by Gretchen Hasse. It was filmed at the Restorative and Transformative Justice in Action Gathering that took place in Chicago on August 17, 2012. The event was organized by Project NIA, Building Communities Ending Violence,…
- Video · via TransformHarmMeeting with a Killer – DocumentaryLisa F. Jackson
Meeting with a Killer follows the family of a young, pregnant woman who was raped and brutally murdered in 1986 near Tomhall, Texas. The family has spent two years going through a victim offender dialogue program in an effort to finally meet one of the men…
- Video · via TransformHarmHollow WaterBonnie Dickie
Hollow Water, Bonnie Dickie, provided by the National Film Board of Canada This documentary profiles the tiny Ojibway community of Hollow Water on the shores of Lake Winnipeg as they deal with an epidemic of sexual abuse in their midst. The offenders have…
- PDF · via TransformHarmLife Comes From It: Navajo Justice ConceptsRobert Yazzie
- PDF · via TransformHarmCreating Conflict Infrastructure: a group workbookLuna N.H.
Creating Conflict Infrastructure is a 90-page workbook for organizations who are considering implementing conflict infrastructure (policies, practices, resources to address conflicts). Much of the content is also available in the Conflict Transformation…
- Audio · via TransformHarmNavigating Conflict with Kazu HagaFinding Our Way
Kazu Haga is the founder of the East Point Peace Academy, a core member of the Ahimsa Collective, and the author of Healing Resistance: A Radically Different Response to Harm. In this episode, Prentis and Kazu examine our definitions and enactments of…
- Audio · via TransformHarmToolbox: Understanding conflictResist + Renew
Season 2 episode 1 of the Resist + Renew podcast (we’re back!). In this one, we go over what we think conflict is, why we’re focusing on it, and some ways to understand it. ‘Conflict is both the spark, the fight, the loud things, the incidents which you…
- PDF · via TransformHarmCaregivers & Kids Building Communities of CareQueenie’s Crew
Launched in March 2022, Queenie’s Crew has been an experiment to engage children in learning about building communities of care without prisons or policing. The Crew has engaged more than 300 caregivers, educators, and organizers with their monthly…
- Website · via TransformHarmBuilding Accountable CommunitiesBuilding Accountable Communities
What do we mean when we talk about restorative justice and accountability? Project NIA and the Barnard Center for Research on Women (BCRW) created the following videos as part of the Building Accountable Communities Project, promoting non-punitive…
- Website · via TransformHarmOne Million ExperimentsA Virtual Zine Project, Project NIA, Interrupting Criminalization
One million experiments is–Exploring snapshots of community-based projects that expand our ideas about what keeps us safe.
- Website · via TransformHarmOn creating a world where we can hold each other accountable for sexual misconductAnya Kark
compiler’s note: I created this resource list because I want transformative justice work to be sustainable, and I want to give credit to the healers that have come before me. The scope of this list is resources which are focused on the creation of new…
- Website · via TransformHarmResources for OrganizingIncite!
Access resource at the original source link.In 2000, INCITE! founders organized the “The Color of Violence: Violence Against Women of Color” conference held at University of California-Santa Cruz on April 28-29. The primary goals of this conference were to…
- Website · via TransformHarmAORTA – ResourcesAORTA
AORTA is a worker-owned cooperative devoted to strengthening movements for social justice and a solidarity economy. We work as consultants and facilitators to expand the capacity of cooperative, collective, and community-based projects through education,…
- PDF · via TransformHarmArtist Protection NetworkCatherine Hernandez
As an author, Catherine Hernandez has endured countless incidents of stalking and harassment. While touring her book, she began speaking to her colleagues about her experiences and found out she was not alone. The members of this unfortunate club decided…
- PDF · via TransformHarmA Community Accountability Call to ActionCollective Action for Safe Spaces
- PDF · via TransformHarmCreative Interventions Toolkitcreative interventions, Mimi Kim
A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO STOP INTERPERSONAL VIOLENCE
- Website · via TransformHarmTransformative Justice Case StudiesBATJC
Case studies are a great tool for practicing intervention and TJ skills for any level of knowledge or experience. Since case studies contain realistic or real-life experiences, they allow us to sift through specific details and think through needs and…
- Website · via TransformHarmCarlito Rovira Exposed: Exposing Abuse in Our MovementsCampaign to Bring Mumia Home
- Audio · via TransformHarmadrienne maree brown on Cancellation, Abolition and Healingadrienne maree brown
This week on The Final Straw, we feature a conversation between our occasional host, Scott, and adrienne maree brown. For the hour, Scott and adrienne speak about “We Will Not Cancel Us and Other Dreams of Transformative Justice”, her latest booklet…
- Video · via TransformHarmBuilding Accountable CommunitiesBarnard Center for Research on Women, Project NIA
Accountability is a familiar buzzword in contemporary social movements, but what does it mean? How do we work toward it? In this series of four short videos, anti-violence activists Kiyomi Fujikawa and Shannon Perez-Darby ask and explore: What does it look…
- PDF · via TransformHarmLearning to Exhale ZineLeila Raven
- Website · via TransformHarmEmbracing the Gifts of Conflict for Social ChangeJovida Ross, Weyam Ghadbian
Read at the original source link.
- Video · via TransformHarmSelf-Accountability and Movement BuildingProject NIA, NYC Transformative Justice Hub
Accountability is a human skill, not something that happens to bad people. How many times have movements been pulled apart not because of external forces but because of internal conflict and strife? So often we ask how others can be accountable without…
- PDF · via TransformHarmWe Don’t Want To Be Stars: A 21st-Century Intersectional Feminist Organizing Curriculum for These TimesAuburn Seminary Staff
Access the PDF at the original source link. This is a grassroots organizing and training curriculum rooted in lessons from multi-racial, cross-class, feminist organizing. It is for emerging or established groups and organizations working to get into good…
- Article · via TransformHarmSummary Statement Re: Community Accountability ProcessMariame Kaba
- Article · via TransformHarmCalifornia Initiative Moves Away From Relying On Police To Address Mental Health CrisesJessica Buxbaum
As more Americans wake up to the notion of police abolition, one organization in California is already making it a reality. Mental Health First—from the Anti Police-Terror Project—is a community-centered initiative to eliminate the need for law enforcement…
- Website · via TransformHarmGet in FormationVision Change
Get in Formation is a collection of security and safety practices built by years of learning in the streets from Black, Indigenous, and People of Color movements within the U.S. Developed and edited by safety and security practitioners with a range of…
- Article · via TransformHarmWe Keep Us SafeJessie Kindig
Serving food at Abolition Park THE RULES OF FOOD STATION are these: Always wear your mask over your nose and mouth Don’t touch food or clean utensils without gloves on We serve EVERYONE, as long as they are wearing a mask Our only enemies are the police,…
- Video · via TransformHarmIntroduction to Close to Home: Community-Driven Approaches to Violence PreventionPrevent Connect
This is part 1 of a 3-part podcast based on one of PreventConnect’s newest eLearning courses, “Community-Driven Approaches to Violence Prevention: Close to Home.” On this podcast, Susan Ghanbarpour interviews Aimee Thompson about Close to Home and its…
- Video · via TransformHarmCommunity Response to COVID-19Mia Mingus
AAPI Women Lead’s Dr. Connie Wun sits down with Mia Mingus, Transformative Justice & Disability Justice organizer, advocate and leader. In episode 2, Mia + Dr. Connie Wun talks about ways communities have been supporting each other through this time using…
- PDF · via TransformHarmBlack Queer Feminist Curriculum ToolkitBlack Youth Project 100
- PDF · via TransformHarmTwo Sides of JusticeProject NIA, Santera Matthews
Two Sides of Justice is a collection of narratives from system survivors. The criminal justice system has altered the lives of the people whose stories you are about to hear, sometimes for the better but more often for the worse. Their contact with the…
- Website · via TransformHarmYour Friend Has Been Abused: What Do You Do?A.V. Flox
When a friend discloses their experience of abuse, it is often extremely difficult to know what to do. Our society does not teach us how to usefully deal with interpersonal harm — in fact, it often does the opposite. It teaches us that we are all on our…
- Website · via TransformHarmThe Process of Change 201: The Basics of Community AccountabilityQueeringPsychology
- Website · via TransformHarmOverview of Just Beginnings Collaborative & PreventConnect Web Conference SeriesPrevent Connect
In January 2019, PreventConnect hosted a 3-part web conference series highlighting the work the Just Beginnings Collaborative fellows do to prevent child sexual abuse. The conversations that occurred during these web conferences hold immense value for the…
- Website · via TransformHarmThe Process of Change Part 1: What is Change?QueeringPsychology
- PDF · via TransformHarmA Stand Up Start Up by Philly’s Pissed – Philly Stands UpPhilly Stands Up
- Article · via TransformHarmThe NYC Punks Who Built a Support Network for Sexual Assault Survivors When the Justice System Failed ThemMerrit K
America has a rape problem. For every 1,000 sexual assaults, only 310 are reported — and from the investigation stage to trial, only six rapists out of 1,000 will be incarcerated. But America also has a prison problem. We spend close to $200 billion a year…
- Article · via TransformHarmPracticing New Social Relations, Even in ConflictDean Spade
Why are people inside our movement organizations so mean to each other? We often lament how much energy is spent targeting other people within movements rather than “our real enemies”. But our conflict makes sense: People fuck up a lot. Even though we are…
- Video · via TransformHarmCreatively intervening in interpersonal and state violenceDulwich Centre Foundation, Rachel Herzing
Originally given to students in the Master of Narrative Therapy and Community Work program, this presentation outlines approaches to reducing violence that do not rely on remedies tied to policing and imprisonment. The presentation draws from work done by…
- Website · via TransformHarmWhose Security?The PIC is…
The non-profit industrial complex increasingly governs the lives of marginalized young people who are being criminalized by institutions like schools, hospitals, detention centers, and correctional facilities. Young people in group homes, at drop in…
- Video · via TransformHarmCommunity Accountability for Safety: Building Capacity to Make Sexual and Domestic Violence a Community ResponsibilityPrevent Connect
- PDF · via TransformHarmAccountabilityDIY Space for London
- Video · via TransformHarmDon’t be a Bystander: 6 Tips for Responding to Racist AttacksProject NIA, Barnard Center for Research on Women
Created by BCRW and members of Project NIA, this video offers an abolitionist approach to bystander intervention that does not rely on the police. The United States has a long history of violence against People of Color, disabled people, Muslims,…
- Article · via TransformHarmPods and Pod Mapping WorksheetMia Mingus, BATJC
During the spring of 2014 the Bay Area Transformative Justice Collective (BATJC) began using the term “pod” to refer to a specific type of relationship within transformative justice (TJ) work. We needed a term to describe the kind of relationship between…
- Article · via TransformHarm6 Signs Your Call-Out Isn’t Actually About AccountabilityMaisha Z. Johnson
No matter how long you’ve been politically conscious, you’ve probably figured out by now that activists are by no means perfect. Even while we’re trying to end oppression, we can sometimes make some harmful mistakes ourselves. So how do you address…
- Article · via TransformHarmFor Tasha Amezcua, Safety Starts by Not Calling the CopsMadhuri Sathish
BROOKLYN, New York (WOMENSENEWS)— Tasha Amezcua identifies herself as a “queer, femme, Chicana survivor of violence . . . who has never relied on the police for safety.” That identity is integral to her work as program coordinator of the Safe OUTside the…
- Article · via TransformHarm9 Ways to be Accountable When You’ve Been AbusiveKai Cheng Thom
As I sit in my bed and begin to type (beds are my favorite typing places), there is a part of me that says, Don’t write this article. There is a part of me that still resonates deeply with the fear and shame that surround the topics of abuse and intimate…
- PDF · via TransformHarmSupport New York CurriculumsSupport New York
- Website · via TransformHarmGetting Called Out: Why Acknowledging Oppression Matters More Than Your Hurt FeelingsErin Tatum
It’s a natural desire to want to give your opinion on something. We all want to think that our perspective matters – and, depending, oftentimes, it does. But sometimes it doesn’t. And we don’t always think about the implications of our words. Maybe you’re…
- PDF · via TransformHarmCommunity Accountability for Survivors of Sexual Violence ToolkitJane Hereth, Chez Rumph
- Article · via TransformHarmCalling IN: A Less Disposable Way of Holding Each Other AccountableNgọc Loan Trần
I started having conversations on this practice of “calling in” after attending Race Forward’s Facing Race Conference in Baltimore, MD in 2012. Facing Race was a gathering of thousands of people working on advancing racial justice. The space was full of…
- Article · via TransformHarm10 Strategies for Cultivating Community AccountabilityAnn Russo
My commitment to prison abolition grows daily in part because I see the possibilities for responding to abuse and violence without relying on punishment, shame, and more violence. The possibilities lie in building communities where community members – be…
- Article · via TransformHarmCommunity Acountability: Emerging Movements to Transform ViolenceAna Clarissa Rojas Durazo, Alisa Bierria, Mimi Kim
Community Accountability: Emerging Movements to Transform Violence, a special issue of Social Justice: A Journal of Crime, Conflict & World Order (Vol 37, No. 4, 2011-2012), critically examines grassroots efforts, cultural interventions, and theoretical…
- Article · via TransformHarmThinking Through Perpetrator AccountabilityCrimethinc.
This article is from Rolling Thunder #8, a quarterly journal by Crimethinc. Thinking Through Perpetrator Accountability “They” is used as a singular pronoun throughout this text to refer to survivors and perpetrators without reference to their gender…
- PDF · via TransformHarmCommunity Accountability FactsheetIncite!
INCITE! is a network of radical feminists of color organizing to end state violence and violence in our homes and communities.
- PDF · via TransformHarmThe Revolution Starts at Home Confronting Partner Abuse in Activist Communities ZineLeah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Jai Dulani, Ching-In Chen
- PDF · via TransformHarmCommunities Engaged in Resisting ViolenceAnn Russo, Melissa Spatz
- Article · via TransformHarmCommunity Accountability Within People of Color Progressive MovementsIncite!
- Article · via TransformHarmTaking The First Step: Suggestions To People Called Out For Abusive BehaviorWispy Cockles
What you see before you is a work in a progress and will likely remain so. I write this to encourage dialogue and to provide a resource to people dealing with difficult situations. I do not write this to provide answers to every situation where someone is…
- Website · via TransformHarmA Learning And Action Guide For Public HealthTowards Abolition
Public health defines health not as merely the absence of disease, but as addressing all of the conditions and determinants that we know create health and wellbeing at the community and population levels, for the most people possible. On its face, public…
- Article · via TransformHarmAbolition: A Journal of Insurgent PoliticsAbolition Journal
Abolitionist politics is not about what is possible, but about making the impossible a reality. Ending slavery appeared to be an impossible challenge for Sojourner Truth, Denmark Vesey, Nat Turner, John Brown, Harriet Tubman, and others, and yet they…
- Website · via TransformHarmReadings & Resources on Abolition & RJYWOC4RJ, Advocates for Youth
About this document Care Not Cages is a project about the intersection of reproductive justice and prison abolition, spearheaded by the Young Womxn of Color for Reproductive Justice Leadership Council, in partnership with BYP100, URGE: Unite for…
- Website · via TransformHarmAbolitionist Futures | Reading ListAbolitionist Futures
Our aim is for this reading list to introduce you to a range of abolitionist ideas via short, accessible and introductory texts, podcasts and videos. We hope these resources spark informed discussions of abolitionist ideas to take with you to work places,…
- Audio · via TransformHarmTwo Sides of JusticeTwo Sides Of Justice
“Two Sides of Justice” is a collection of narratives from system survivors. The criminal justice system has altered the lives of the people you’re about to hear, sometimes for the better, but more often for the worse. Their contact with the system has…
- Website · via TransformHarm2nd Annual Abolition WeekSCALAWAG
Cops are everywhere in pop culture. It’s not just The First 48, or the true-crime canon. “Friendly” cops surface even when we don’t pay them any mind. Woody from Toy Story: a whole sheriff. The beloved Winston of New Girl: an embarrassingly awful rookie…
- Website · via TransformHarmResource Guide: Prisons, Policing, And PunishmentMicah Herskind
This guide contains resources on the abolition of policing, prisons, and punishment. You can find another resource hub, created by Mariame Kaba, here. If you appreciate this guide, please consider making a donation to Georgia Freedom Letters.
- Website · via TransformHarmDC Alternatives to Calling the Police by DC Standing Up for Racial JusticeShowing Up For Racial justice
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- Article · via TransformHarmMutual Aid And Solidarity In Nigeria’s #endsars ProtestsPelumi Salako
On October 18, 2020, during the #EndSARS protests against police violence and state corruption in Nigeria’s capital Abuja, a photo was shared on social media that quickly drew nationwide attention. The image showed passionate protesters with their fists…
- Article · via TransformHarmIt Is Time For A Community Approach To Mental HealthMegan McGee
The 2020 uprising in response to the murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin has made the average US American aware of the movement to abolish police and prisons. In recent discussions of police violence, pundits and politicians…
- Article · via TransformHarmState Of War, An Excerpt From “The Nation On No Map: Black Anarchism & Abolition”William C. Anderson
Saying “stop killing us” and asking an oppressor not to oppress is not going to work. Taking the life of the system we’re up against through abolition is much more complex than simply fighting people in the streets. We need to eradicate the very structures…
- Video · via TransformHarmGrounding Practice – Abolition: In Defense of TranslationSomerset House
A series of guest presentations and a panel discussion exploring the concept of abolition. Join programme curators Lola Olufemi and Imani Robinson for an online screening of filmed contributions from abolitionists Zoe Samudzi, Jun Pang, and SA Smythe as…
- Audio · via TransformHarmEp. 179 Imagining Better with Derecka PurnellThe Stacks
- Video · via TransformHarmStrong Communities Make Cops ObsoleteHaymarket Books
If police are the problem, what’s the solution? Tens of millions of people poured onto the streets for Black Lives Matter, bringing with them a wholly new idea of public safety, common security, and the delivery of justice, communicating that vision in the…
- Article · via TransformHarmAbolition As a Method for Trans and Queer Freedom In AfricaMumbi Kanyogo
The work of trans and queer organizers across Africa fighting for the wellbeing of impoverished African trans and queer people offers a small history and contemporary foray into what an abolitionist future on the continent can look like. Read full…
- Website · via TransformHarm“New Bones” Abolitionism, Communism, and Captive MaternalsJoy James
Joy James uses poet Lucille Clifton’s image of “new bones’ to reflect on a series of revolutionary anniversaries in 2021 and the nature of political leadership. Read more at the original source link.
- Video · via TransformHarmImagine A World Without PrisonsInternational Festival of Arts & Ideas
- Article · via TransformHarmCommunity Control of the Police: Is It Neocolonialism?Dubian Ade, Red Voice
Where the watershed trial and conviction of Derek Chauvin in the murder of George Floyd has made abolishing the police that much more difficult, proposals for community control struggle to set the agenda for the movement to come. The Community Control of…
- Video · via TransformHarmRevolutionary Abolition & Community DefenseThe Comrades Classroom
In this episode, we sit down with Malik, a member of the Revolutionary Abolition Movement who was one of the authors of Burning Down the American Plantation. They’re also joined by one of their comrades and fellow educators, Christy! They both guide us…
- Article · via TransformHarmBeyond Criminalizing Domestic ViolenceLeigh Goodmark
Illustration by Jay Davis (she/her) Editor’s Note: The effects of the coronavirus pandemic will take years to untangle. Already, scholars are raising alarms about increasing incidents of intimate partner violence (more colloquially known as “domestic…
- Article · via TransformHarm“New Bones” Abolitionism, Communism, and Captive Maternals”Leigh Goodmark
Illustration by Jay Davis (she/her) Editor’s Note: The effects of the coronavirus pandemic will take years to untangle. Already, scholars are raising alarms about increasing incidents of intimate partner violence (more colloquially known as “domestic…
- Article · via TransformHarmNew York City Has a Jail ProblemNadja Eisenberg-Guyot
Opening new “borough-based” jails isn’t the answer. We need to try something different. Thinking you can reform incarceration by building four new jails in each borough is like thinking you can humanize slavery by breaking up a large plantation in…
- Website · via TransformHarmPrison Abolition – We Do This ‘Til We Free UsRadical In Progress, Mariame Kaba
A study guide of Mariame Kaba’s 2021 book ‘We Do This ‘Til We Free Us.’
- Article · via TransformHarmThe Fantasy of Community Control of the PoliceWoods Ervin, Ricardo Levins Morales, Zola Richardson, Jonathan Stegall
The firestorm of protest sparked by the murder of George Floyd by the Minneapolis Police Department was historic not only because of its scale – 15-20 million people participated in protests in the U.S. alone — but also because it shattered the commonly…
- Article · via TransformHarmDefeat The Police: Beyond “Defund” Or “Community Control”Omedi Ochieng
The police cannot be reformed. At the very height of nationwide police protests, in full awareness that their actions were being documented in the glare of social media accounts and the national press, they brazenly assaulted protestors, ran them…
- Article · via TransformHarmAbolitionist AlternativesChe Gossett
Black radicalism and the refusal of reform This text is part of “Imagination and the Carceral State,” a series of essays organized by Joshua Bennett for Cabinet’s Kiosk platform. For his introduction to the portfolio, see here. The other texts in the…
- Video · via TransformHarmPrison Industrial Complex (PIC) Abolition 101 Workshop – [captioned]Project NIA
Prison Industrial Complex (PIC) Abolition 101: A Vision to End Prisons, Policing & Surveillance – facilitated by Mariame Kaba (August 2020) Prisons are relatively new experiments. They are not ‘broken’ nor are they rehabilitative. They exist to punish,…
- PDF · via TransformHarmInsurrectional AbolitionismTrue Leap Press
- PDF · via TransformHarmReflections on the “Movement Moment”True Leap Press
- Article · via TransformHarmCommunity Control of Police v Defunding Police: Addressing the Patriarchal Roots of PolicingNnennaya Amuchie
Community Control for who? We still have too many hierarchies and contradictions within the Black community to ensure a subset of people with police power would not replicate the same violent institution power. The problem with policing is not who controls…
- Video · via TransformHarmBlooming Beyond Voting and ElectionsOn Resistance
- Article · via TransformHarmAbolition Is Not Merely a Demand, But a Long-Term StruggleErica R. Meiners, Truthout
Recently, I received this text from a longtime comrade: “You’re not gonna believe this but the governor is on TV saying they are going to shut down all the juvenile prisons in Illinois.” Not exactly. This text, and the statement by Illinois Gov. J.B.…
- Video · via TransformHarmAbolition 101: What does it mean to defund the policeDaily Kos Liberation League, Reclaim the Block
Join Daily Kos Liberation League and Minneapolis-based organizers from Reclaim the Block for this introduction to abolition. Explore the history of policing, frequently asked questions, and how proposed reforms to policing fall short. Be ready to dig into…
- Article · via TransformHarmAirbrushing Revolution for the Sake of AbolitionJoy James
Photo: Free Angela Button, (Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library) In their July 2020, post “Was Angela Davis a Panther?”the Black Revolutionary Guard (BRG) asks and answers a query raised as a pretext for dismissing harsh…
- Article · via TransformHarmAbolition for the PeopleLEVEL Editors
The ongoing scourge of police terrorism has reinvigorated an important national conversation about policing and incarceration — their history, purpose, and practice. While some have called for reforms, like stricter use-of-force policies and enhanced body…
- Article · via TransformHarmAching for AbolitionCamonghne Felix
By Camonghne Felix Original article found here As a survivor of sexual violence, I know prison isn’t the answer. No one really asks a survivor what she wants. When a woman is raped, it becomes an assault on the state, not the person. She could decide that…
- Article · via TransformHarmTo Stop Police Violence, We Need Better Questions — and Bigger DemandsMariame Kaba
It’s impossible to take the violence out of policing Once again, there is justified outrage at police acting to kill with impunity. I understand the anger and also feel rage. The lack of concern for Black life, though unsurprising, remains gutting. And…
- Video · via TransformHarmRacial Justice is Climate Justice: Pt. 1 – Abolition350 Seattle
Climate Justice is Racial Justice: Learning Series explores the ways racial inequities intersect with the threats of climate change. These fights are deeply interconnected, and the way to build a healthy, resilient future is to learn, understand, and…
- Article · via TransformHarmWhy These Sexual Assault Survivors Support Defunding The PoliceAlanna Vagianos, Jenavieve Hatch
As the rallying cry to “defund the police” reverberates across the country, some critics have claimed that women will be irrevocably harmed if police budgets are downsized, pointing specifically to sexual assault survivors. The argument, steeped in…
- Article · via TransformHarmThe Argument Against Community Control of the PoliceDubian Ade
In light of the recent Black rebellions that have shaken the nation into the summer months, two key positions on policing abolition have reemerged. Defund the police, which had enjoyed some surprisingly mainstream attention, is essentially the position…
- Audio · via TransformHarmEpisode 94: How to Abolish Prison Like a Feminist (1 of 2)unladylike media
Recent calls to defund police and abolish prisons have raised the question: But what about rapists? In part one of two episodes exploring that question, prison abolitionist Maya Schenwar presents the case for looking outside the criminal justice system for…
- Video · via TransformHarmFrom Dreams to Practice: Abolition in our lifetimesAllied Media Projects, Andrea J. Ritchie, Rachel Herzing, Mariame Kaba
- Article · via TransformHarmWhat Is Abolition, And Why Do We Need It?Reina Sultan, Micah Herskind
In the midst of nationwide uprisings against ongoing police murders of Black people, a new set of demands has been thrust into public consciousness: Defund and abolish the police, and invest in new models of safety and communal well-being. Rather than ask…
- Article · via TransformHarmWe Have Already Stopped Calling The CopsAviva Stahl
It was the late ’90s when writer, activist, and educator Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, then living in Toronto, found themselves in an impossible situation. Their partner, who I’ll call “T,” had become physically abusive, but calling the police wasn’t…
- Article · via TransformHarmTrading Cops for Social Workers Isn’t the Solution to Police ViolenceCameron Rasmussen, Kirk “Jae” James
The U.S. today appears to be approaching a tipping point in dismantling its historical oppression of Black people — specifically, the overt and racialized state-sanctioned violence perpetuated by carceral systems including the police. Decades of…
- Video · via TransformHarmDecarcerating Disability: Deinstitutionalization and Prison AbolitionRising Up With Sonali
GUEST: Liat Ben-Moshe, Assistant Professor of Criminology, Law, and Justice at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She is co-editor of Disability Incarcerated: Imprisonment and Disability in the United States and Canada. Her latest book is Decarcerating…
- Article · via TransformHarmHow I Became a Police AbolitionistDerecka Purnell
We called 911 for almost everything except snitching. Nosebleeds, gunshot wounds, asthma attacks, allergic reactions. Police accompanied the paramedics. Our neighborhood made us sick. A Praxair industrial gas-storage facility was at one end of my block. A…
- Video · via TransformHarmPrison Is Abuse: Understanding Prisons, Abuse of Power, and ControlMoms United Against Violence And Incarceration
Moms United Against Violence and Incarceration (MUAVI) and Love & Protect are very excited to share “Prison Is Abuse: Understanding Prisons, Abuse of Power, and Control.” This video documents a timely conversation between feminist-abolitionist activists…
- Video · via TransformHarmA Conversation Between Rachel Herzing and Amna AkbarCentre For Ethics, Rachel Herzing, Amna Akbar
A Conversation Between Rachel Herzing and Amna Akbar A conversation between Rachel Herzing and Amna Akbar on the organizing that came before, and the road ahead, toward prison abolition. Rachel Herzing Executive Director, Center for Political Education…
- Article · via TransformHarmA Fresh Framework – The Feminism of the Abolition MovementRayne Fisher Quann
While weeks of protest sparked by racist police killings continue to rock all 50 states, police violence in the United States has come under international criticism. The incessant murder of Black and Indigenous people by so-called “public servants” has…
- Article · via TransformHarmHow to Defund the PoliceAlexis Okeowo
On June 11th, near twilight, Camara Jackson was in Marcus Garvey Village, a sprawling low-income housing complex in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Brownsville, checking in with residents and handing out hand sanitizer, masks, and gloves. Jackson is the…
- Article · via TransformHarmAbolition or Bust: Liberal Police Reform as an Engine of Carceral ViolenceCharlotte Rosen
The police murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Tony McDade, and the subsequent uprisings against racist police brutality in Minneapolis and cities across the nation, have suddenly thrust calls for police abolition into the mainstream. Although the…
- Article · via TransformHarmCan’t Imagine a World Without Police? Start HereKatie Way
Wondering if killer cops should be locked up? Hearing terms like ‘community accountability’ and ‘restorative justice’ but confused about what they mean? Here’s a primer on the police abolitionist vision of the future. Derek Chauvin has been charged with…
- Article · via TransformHarmPolitical Possibilities Black Feminism Offers a Path to AbolitionDr. Elizabeth Jordie Davies
The recent police killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Tony McDade have sparked outrage across the United States and left many wondering how we can rise to meet this political moment. Police, however, aren’t the sole perpetrators of violence…
- Article · via TransformHarm8 to Abolition Is Advocating to Abolish Police to Keep Us All SafeLeila Raven, Mon Mohapatra, Dr. Rachel Kuo
In the midst of a pandemic and mass uprisings in defense of Black lives, we have an opportunity to drastically transform the way we live, work, and relate to one another. This moment has created a break in life as we knew it, and in this opening, we offer…
- Article · via TransformHarmWhat About the Rapists and Murderers?Angel Parker
Trigger warning: rape, sexual assault, murder, torture, ablelism, trauma. The most common question posed to abolitionists is “what about the rapists and murderers?” Most people are not satisfied with the answer they receive. This article is an attempt to…
- Article · via TransformHarmIf We Abolish Police, What Happens to Rapists?Cassandra Mensah
In this op-ed, Cassandra Mensah explains what happens to rapists and abusers if we abolish police. The Movement for Black Lives’ call to defund the police is reaching more people than ever before. In an unprecedented move, Minneapolis city…
- Video · via TransformHarmAbolition Can’t Wait: A Teach in with #8toAboltionHaymarket Books, #8toAbolition
Abolition can’t wait. While communities across the country mourn the loss of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade, Jamel Floyd, and so many more Black victims of police murder, Campaign Zero released its “8 Can’t Wait campaign”, offering a set of…
- Website · via TransformHarmIf You’re New to Abolition: Study Group GuideAbolition Journal
We invite you to meet our historical moment, in which a Black-led popular uprising, launched in response to the police murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Tony McDade, and the white supremacist killing of Ahmaud Arbery, is spotlighting police…
- PDF · via TransformHarmThe Abolitionist Horizon: Building A World Without Police Or PrisonsEMERGE
- Article · via TransformHarmPolicing Has Failed For Real Public Safety, We Need A Million Community-Driven ExperimentsMary Hooks
THE TRUE NATURE OF POLICING IN THIS COUNTRY HAS ALWAYS BEEN ABOUT UNJUST POWER AND CRIMINALIZATION OF BLACK AND INDIGENOUS PEOPLE, WHILE ALSO HARMING OTHER COMMUNITIES OF COLOR AND WORKING CLASS WHITE PEOPLE. This Juneteenth solidified the reality that…
- Article · via TransformHarmFeminism Requires Abolition: Police Aren’t an Adequate Response to Sexual ViolenceMaeve Barry
Since publishing my recent article, “White Women: We Need to do Better,” I received a great deal of fearful comments from white people—white women, in particular—over the idea of a future without police. One of the most common concerns I heard was from…
- Audio · via TransformHarmJoin the Abolitionist MovementRebel Steps, Mariame Kaba
Abolition has been a huge topic in the wake of the uprising sparked by the police murders of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor. Calls to defund or abolish the police are now experiencing a surge of interest, in the form of street art, protest signs, op eds,…
- Article · via TransformHarmABOLITION CANNOT WAIT: VISIONS FOR TRANSFORMATION AND RADICAL WORLD-BUILDINGK Agbebiyi, Sarah T. Hamid, Dr. Rachel Kuo, Mon Mohapatra
The original article is no longer available – it is reproduced here from the original source link which no longer works. ABOLITION IS THE PRACTICE OF BUILDING A RADICAL VISION FOR THE END OF IMPERIALISM, CIS HETEROPATRIARCHY, CAPITALISM, AND WHITE…
- Article · via TransformHarm6 Modern Abolitionists On What Emancipation Means For Juneteenth 2020Madhuri Sathish-Van Atta
June 19 is Juneteenth, which commemorates the day in 1865 when the last formally enslaved people in Galveston, Texas were informed of their legal emancipation — more than two years after the Emancipation Proclamation. But in 2020, 155 years later,…
- Audio · via TransformHarmA World Without PoliceIn The Thick
Maria and Julio talk about police and prison abolition with Charlene Carruthers, author and founding member of Black Youth Project 100, and Ejeris Dixon, director of Vision Change Win. They imagine a world without police, dive into community safety, and…
- Article · via TransformHarmWhy Police Abolition Is a Useful Framework — Even for SkepticsZak Cheney-Rice
“Defund the police” has become a rallying cry for recent protests, but several different explanations have been offered for what it actually means. The semantic dispute reveals key philosophical differences among its proclaimers: The abolitionists who…
- Article · via TransformHarmHow Would Prison Abolition Actually Work?Gabriella Paiella
As protests continue to spread in the wake of the police killing of George Floyd, one seemingly radical, decades-old idea has been thrust to the forefront of mainstream discourse: prison abolition. With over two million people locked up in prisons and…
- Video · via TransformHarmDefunding Vs. Abolishing The Police Explained In 6 MinutesJoseph Capehart
Activist and educator Joseph Capehart explains the difference between reforming, defunding, and abolishing the police — and why it’s important. Thanks to: https://www.tiktok.com/@mistercapehart https://www.instagram.com/okjsph Additional resources on…
- Video · via TransformHarmOn the Road With Abolition: Assessing Our Steps Along the WayHaymarket Books
We are in a historic moment brought on by the consistent exertion of people power across the country and around the world. This has brought us to a place where our communities are poised to win significant victories against the violence of policing on a…
- Audio · via TransformHarmRuth Wilson Gilmore Makes The Case For AbolitionRuth Wilson Gilmore
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- Article · via TransformHarm‘Defund the Police’ Actually Means Defunding the PoliceEdward Ongweso Jr
Reformist initiatives like ‘8 Can’t Wait’ have already failed. Here’s what you need to know about defunding and abolishing the police. Since protests and uprisings began following ex-Minneapolis officer Derek Chavin’s killing of George Floyd, police have…
- PDF · via TransformHarmAbolitionist Policy Changes to Demandfrom Your City Officials#8toAbolition
- Article · via TransformHarmPrinciples of Pride: Police and Prisons Do Not Belong in Our FutureBenji Hart
Introducing the Principles of Pride As part of our No Justice, No Pride programming, our trans subject editor Xoai Pham has curated a five-part series called the Principles of Pride. The series unpacks the foundational values that clear a path forward for…
- Article · via TransformHarmBeyond Bars Prison Abolition Should Be the American DreamReina Sultan
In her 2003 book, Are Prisons Obsolete?, scholar and activist Angela Y. Davis wrote, “Prison abolitionists are dismissed as utopians and idealists whose ideas are at best unrealistic and impracticable, and, at worst, mystifying and foolish.” Those who…
- Video · via TransformHarmDisability Justice and AbolitionCAT 911, Elliott Fukui
As the movement to close down jails and prisons gains momentum, some have proposed opening up mental health facilities as an alternative. Elliott Fukui challenges this strategy and explores what abolition looks like from a disability justice lens. This…
- Article · via TransformHarmPolice and Prison Abolition 101: A Syllabus and FAQRachel Kincaid
George Floyd was murdered on May 25, 2020, and we stand in unequivocal support of the protests and uprisings that have swept the US since that day, and against the unconscionable violence of the police and US state. We can’t continue with business as…
- Video · via TransformHarmRuth Wilson Gilmore on survival pending abolitionHaymarket Books, Ruth Wilson Gilmore
This short clip is part of Ruth Wilson Gilmore’s teach-in with Naomi Murakawa, “Covid-19, Decarceration, and Abolition”
- PDF · via TransformHarmIn the BellyAbolitionist Study
In The Belly is a journal by and for people who are held captive by the Prison-Industrial Complex. For people whose lives are impacted, determined, and overshadowed by punishment and incarceration daily: prisoners and their families, loved ones, friends,…
- Video · via TransformHarmHow should abolitionists respond to the coronavirus pandemic?Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Naomi Murakawa
How can we achieve urgently needed decarceration for the millions of people caged in jails, prisons, and immigration detention centers? Haymarket Books is an independent, radical, non-profit publisher. Every dollar we take in from book sales and donations…
- PDF · via TransformHarmReadings & Resources On Abolition & Reproductive JusticeYWOC4RJ
Care Not Cages is a project about the intersection of reproductive justice and prison abolition, spearheaded by the Young Womxn of Color for Reproductive Justice Leadership Council, in partnership with BYP100, URGE: Unite for Reproductive & Gender Equity,…
- Article · via TransformHarmThe Domestic Violence I survived Taught Me the Importance of Prison AbolitionMichelle Zacarias
The original article is no longer available but was found at the original source link above SO OFTEN, THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM RETRAUMATIZES VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC AND SEXUAL VIOLENCE, FURTHER MAGNIFYING THE HARM INFLICTED. TW: This essay contains…
- Article · via TransformHarmSurviving Rape as a Prison AbolitionistMiriam Perez-Putnam
The original article is no longer available but it was found here PEOPLE TRY TO POKE HOLES IN THE PRISON ABOLITION MOVEMENT BY ASKING “WHAT ABOUT RAPISTS, DO YOU WANT THEM JUST WANDERING AROUND?” BUT THEY ALREADY ARE. TW/CW: mentions of sexual assault and…
- Article · via TransformHarmCommunity Bail Funds as a Tool for Prison AbolitionBrett Davidson, Elisabeth Epps, Sharlyn Grace, Atara Rich-Shea
Click here to read all posts in our Money Bail series, including the introductory post presenting an LPE perspective on pretrial detention and Part I of this post on “Moving from Ending Money Bail to Demanding Pretrial Freedom.” Brett Davidson, Elisabeth…
- Article · via TransformHarmWhat the Prison-Abolition Movement WantsKim Kelly
No Class is an op-ed column by writer and radical organizer Kim Kelly that connects worker struggles and the current state of the American labor movement with its storied — and sometimes bloodied — past. This week, she dives into the prison-abolition…
- Article · via TransformHarmDis-Organizing PrisonsAbolitionist Study, Stevie Wilson
When I was asked to define prison organizing, I was stuck for a moment. I realized that I had never defined what I do as prison organizing. First, my concerns have always been about more than the prison itself. Second, my work extends beyond prisons and…
- Video · via TransformHarmEp4: Abolition TodayThe Next Question, Maya Schenwar
In this episode, Maya Schenwar joins us to talk about abolition today: the abolition of incarceration. She doesn’t just spout statistics; she asks good hard questions about the system as it as: is this really what we want? Is there a better way? We cannot…
- Article · via TransformHarmTeaching Penal AbolitionAmna Akbar
In April, the New York Times ran a profile on abolitionist visionary and scholar Ruth Wilson Gilmore, and the Harvard Law Review published an entire issue on prison abolition. This fall, the University of Texas Law School Human Rights Center is hosting…
- Article · via TransformHarmThe Case for AbolitionRuth Wilson Gilmore, James Kilgore
“We have grown weary of worn-out debates overthe feasibility of a world without prisons.” Our belief in abolition is first and foremost philosophical. It grew from watching, experiencing, and opposing decades of reliance on concrete and steel cages as…
- Article · via TransformHarmThe New AbolitionistsEli Day
In the wake of Ava DuVernay’s ‘When They See Us,’ we imagine what prison abolition could look like When emancipation came—a slow, agonizing unraveling that dragged out over the course of a war that snuffed out some 750,000 lives—nearly 4 million enslaved…
- Audio · via TransformHarmAbolitionCrow Talk
- PDF · via TransformHarmAin’t I a prisoner too?Steve Wilson
- Article · via TransformHarmHow #NoCopAcademy shook the machineBenji Hart
How #NoCopAcademy shook the machine The coalition lost the vote but changed the narrative on police spending. On March 13, Chicago’s City Council voted 38 to 8, with two abstentions, to approve a contract with mega-construction company AECOM for building…
- Article · via TransformHarmIs Prison Necessary? Ruth Wilson Gilmore Might Change Your MindRachel Kushner
There’s an anecdote that Ruth Wilson Gilmore likes to share about being at an environmental-justice conference in Fresno in 2003. People from all over California’s Central Valley had gathered to talk about the serious environmental hazards their…
- Video · via TransformHarmThinking about how to abolish prisons with Mariame KabaMariame Kaba
What if we just got rid of prisons? The United States is the epicenter of mass incarceration – but exactly what is it we hope to get out of putting people in prisons? And whatever your answer is to that – is it working? It’s worthwhile to stop and…
- Video · via TransformHarmImplementing Abolition: How to Create Just & Lasting DecarcerationNational Lawyers Guild
While prison populations have declined in recent years, they remain enormous, and immigration detention has ballooned. Also, in many areas where prison populations have decreased the most, racial disparities have worsened. Webinar faculty talk about how to…
- Website · via TransformHarmIssuesHarvard Law Review
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- Video · via TransformHarmNew Year, Who Dis? Exploring Our Political Grounding: AbolitionLaw For Black Lives
This webinar is an introduction to the fundamental principles and politics of abolition and how you can apply these principles to your legal work.
- Audio · via TransformHarmJustice In America Episode 20: Mariame Kaba And Prison AbolitionJustice In America, Mariame Kaba
Josie and Clint talk about prison abolition with Mariame Kaba. On the last episode of Season 2, Josie and Clint discuss prison abolition with Mariame Kaba, one of the leading organizers in the fight against America’s criminal legal system and a…
- Audio · via TransformHarmIs Prison Abolition Possible?Victoria Law, Joshua Dubler, Mariame Kaba
Have you ever imagined a world without prisons and jails? Prison abolitionists have, and they might just be onto something. Prison abolition may appear to be a radical conception, but it wasn’t always that way. In fact, in the ’60s and ’70s, the idea of…
- Article · via TransformHarmBrick by Brick: Creating a World Without PrisonsLayne Mullet
This essay appears in the current issue of Perspectives on Anarchist Theory, N. 28, on the topic of Justice. The full issue is available from AK Press here! Since the publication of Michelle Alexander’s The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of…
- Article · via TransformHarmHistory is a Weapon – The Challenge of Prison Abolition: A ConversationThe Challenge of Prison AbolitionAngela Y. Davis, Dylan Rodriguez
Angela Y. Davis teaches in the History of Consciousness program at the University of California (215 Oakes College, Santa Cruz, CA 95060), and has been actively involved in prison-related campaigns since the events that led to her own incarceration in…
- Article · via TransformHarmInstead of Prisons: A Handbook for AbolitionistsPrison Policy Initiative
Read more at the original source link Writers Fay Honey Knopp Barbara Boward Mary Jo Brach Scott Christianson Mary Ann Largen Julie Lewin Janet Lugo Mark Morris Wendy Newton Researchers Barbara Boward Mary Jo Brach Amy Davidson Blanche Gelber Margaret…
- Website · via TransformHarmPrison Abolition Syllabus 2.0Black Experiences
Angela Davis (Photo: Thierry Ehrmann / Flickr) Even in prison, rebellions are contagious. In 2016, a national prison strike led us to compile the Prison Abolition Syllabus on this site as a way to bring together some of the urgent and informed writings on…
- PDF · via TransformHarmReformist Reforms vs. Abolitionist Steps in PolicingCritical Resistance
These charts break down the difference between reformist reforms which continue or expand the reach of policing and abolitionist steps that work to chip away at and reduce its overall impact. As we struggle to decrease the power of policing there are also…
- Article · via TransformHarmThink prison abolition in America is impossible? It once felt inevitableVincent Lloyd, Joshua Dubler
In the 1960s and 1970s, attorneys general and Republican congressmen were among the many arguing that prison was immoral. Can those days return? With amazing speed, ending mass incarceration has become a priority not only for leftists but also for…
- Article · via TransformHarmA Jailbreak of the Imagination: Seeing Prisons for What They Are and Demanding TransformationMariame Kaba, Kelly Hayes
Our current historical moment demands a radical re-imagining of how we address various harms. The levers of power are currently in the hands of an administration that is openly hostile to the most marginalized in our society (Black people, Native people,…
- Article · via TransformHarmTaking Freedom: Reclaiming Our LineageChe Gossett, Reina Gossett, A.J. Lewis
Taking Freedom: Reclaiming Our Lineage: Organized Queer, Gender-Non-Conforming, and Transgender Resistance to Police Violence On the role that queer people of color play in resisting oppressive policing. Key Points In the 1960s, the Compton Cafeteria and…
- PDF · via TransformHarm#NoCopsNoGuns: Student Walkout ToolkitAdvancement Project
- Website · via TransformHarmWho’s Left – Prison AbolitionFlynn Nicholls
- Article · via TransformHarmTowards the horizon of abolition: A conversation with Mariame KabaJohn Duda
John Duda: I wanted to start by asking you about what it means to work for prison abolition with Trump in the White House. It’s very clear that anybody fighting for anything good is facing a much much harder battle now—certainly this would be true for work…
- Article · via TransformHarmWhat Abolitionists DoMariame Kaba, Dan Berger, David Stein
Prison abolitionists aren’t naive dreamers. They’re organizing for concrete reforms, animated by a radical critique of state violence. Abolition has always been a bold project. Whether in response to private property and nineteenth-century chattel slavery,…
- Article · via TransformHarmCan Prison Abolition Ever be Pragmatic?Nathan J. Robinson
Will incarceration always be a necessary evil? “While there is a lower class, I am in it, and while there is a criminal element I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.” There are a couple of reasons why I love Eugene Debs’s “I am…
- Article · via TransformHarmAbolitionist Practices, Reformist MomentsErica R. Meiners, Rachel Herzing, Nuri Nursat
Photography by @loveandstrugglephotos Despite campaign promises to restore “law and order,” the Trump administration might not be able to arrest the momentum of prison and policing reform movements, which intensified under the Obama administration with…
- Article · via TransformHarmMama’s Bailout Day and Other Bottom-Up Interventions in Everyday JusticeJocelyn Simonson
Photography by @loveandstrugglephotos Money kept them in. Black love got them out. On Mother’s Day 2017, grassroots organizations across the country coordinated together to bail out more than 100 women and caregivers in nineteen different cities.…
- Audio · via TransformHarmBeyond Punishment: The Movement for Transformative JusticeRustbelt Abolition Radio, Mia Mingus, Maya Schenwar, Claudia Garcia-Rojas
- Article · via TransformHarmFreedom to Thrive: Reimagining Safety & Security in Our CommunitiesThe Center for Popular Democracy
By The Center for Popular Democracy Original article found here Over the last 30 years, at both the national and local levels, governments have dramatically increased their spending on criminalization, policing, and mass incarceration while drastically…
- Audio · via TransformHarmQueer (In)Justice with Joey MogulThe Lit Review
We got to sit down with one of our favorite people, Joey Mogul! Joey talks about Queer (In)Justice: The Criminalization of LGBT People in the United States, a book that she co-wrote with Andrea Ritchie and Kay Whitlock in 2011. Drawing on years of…
- Article · via TransformHarmThe Fictions and Futures of Transformative JusticeWalidah Imarisha, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, adrienne maree brown, Mia Mingus
OCTAVIA’S Brood: Science Fiction Stories From Social Justice Movements is a collection of 20 fantastical short stories and two essays written by organizers, activists, and changemakers. Rooted in the premise that “all organizing is science fiction,”…
- Article · via TransformHarmAccounting for Violence: How to Increase Safety and Break Our Failed Reliance on Mass IncarcerationDanielle Sered
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- Website · via TransformHarmPrison Abolition SyllabusBlack Experiences
On September 9, 2016, the 45th anniversary of the Attica prison uprising, prisoners from at least twenty-one states began striking against what they called “modern-day slavery.” The strike stands as one of the largest in U.S. history (figures are difficult…
- PDF · via TransformHarm“Coins, Cops, and Communities” ToolkitAmerican Friends Service Committee
This toolkit contains activities and supplemental materials for exploring the costs of policing in Chicago and what community safety can look like beyond the police. It was developed by youth interns during a summer service learning project in June-August…
- PDF · via TransformHarmA Community Compilation on Police AbolitionLove & Struggle
Created for the opening of the Gone But Not Forgotten Quilt exhibit on October 17, 2016, this zine was created by Monica Trinidad and Sarah-Ji of For The People Artists Collective and Rachel Wallis, the artist and curator of GBNF Quilt Project. Their hope…
- Article · via TransformHarmPrison Reform Misdirection: 5 Caveats About Private Prisons and Mass IncarcerationKay Witlock
Source: Prison Policy Initiative, http://www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/pie2016.html. The August 2016 announcement by the Obama administration that it will phase out or “substantially reduce” contracts with private prisons to house federal prisoners provides…
- Article · via TransformHarmAbolish the police? Organizers say it’s less crazy than it sounds.Maya Dukmasova
Until that moment on Fox News, Jessica Disu hadn’t considered herself a police abolitionist. But on July 11, she was on national television, surrounded by 29 other people convened by Megyn Kellyto discuss the recent killings of Alton Sterling, Philando…
- Article · via TransformHarmTen Lessons for Creating Safety Without PoliceTasha Amezcua, Ejeris Dixon, Che J. Rene Long, Truthout
How can we create safety collectively? How can we challenge hate and police violence by using community-based strategies rather than relying on the police? For the past 10 years, the Safe OUTside the System (SOS) Collective — an anti-violence program led…
- Video · via TransformHarmBeyond Reform: Abolishing PrisonsMaya Schenwar
The United States has the highest imprisonment rate in the world. But is the problem simply that too many people are incarcerated–or is incarceration a problem, in and of itself? The US prison system, which is grounded in racism and economic injustice, is…
- Article · via TransformHarmAbolish the Police. Instead, Let’s Have Full Social, Economic, and Political Equality.Mychal Denzel Smith
A few weeks ago, there was a shooting at my apartment building. A total of five shots were fired resulting in, thankfully, zero injuries. I was home when it happened, but live on the third floor, away from the shooter’s target. The kids downstairs, who…
- Article · via TransformHarmNo to Prison Industrial Complex: San Francisco’s Trans Community Responds to Brutal MurdersToshio Meronek, Truthout
On Monday, February 2, Taja Gabrielle de Jesus was found stabbed to death in a stairwell in the Bayview neighborhood of San Francisco. She’s one of seven transgender women, most of whom were of color, reported to be murdered in the US since the beginning…
- Article · via TransformHarmThere is No Such Thing as Prison ReformAndrea Abi-Karam, CeCe McDonald
One year ago today, CeCe McDonald was released from prison. Her crime? Self-defense against a racist, transphobic attack in which she was glassed through the cheek, resulting in a lacerated salivary gland that required 11 stitches. CeCe’s story gained…
- Article · via TransformHarmThinking Through a World Without PoliceMariame Kaba
Many people are more afraid of imagining a world without police than one without prisons. This seems especially true for people who consider themselves to be progressive. I don’t have the time, energy or inclination to write in depth about abolishing the…
- Article · via TransformHarmPolice “Reforms” You Should Always OpposeMariame Kaba, Truthout
I read today that President Obama has offered some measures for ‘reforming’ the police. Here is a simple guide for evaluating any suggested ‘reforms’ of U.S. policing in this historical moment. 1. Are the proposed reforms allocating more money to the…
- Article · via TransformHarmWe Don’t Just Need Nicer Cops. We Need Fewer Cops.Alex S. Vitale
Protests against the recent police killings of unarmed black men and boys—Eric Garner and Akai Gurley in New York, Michael Brown in Ferguson, John Crawford and 12-year-old Tamir Rice in Ohio—have put the policing of communities of color on the top of the…
- Video · via TransformHarmNo One Is Disposable: Everyday Practices of Prison AbolitionBarnard Center for Research on Women, Dean Spade, Reina Gossett
These videos look at how to build societies where the process of creating justice is as important as the end—communities where no one is exiled. The series was released as part of the online discussion “No One is Disposable: Everyday Practices of Prison…
- PDF · via TransformHarmWhat is Critical Resistance?Critical Resistance
- Audio · via TransformHarmAgainst the GrainDean Spade
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- PDF · via TransformHarmStatement on Gender Violence and the Prison Industrial Complex | Women of Color against Violence and Critical Resistance.Incite!, Critical Resistance
- PDF · via TransformHarmIntroduction to the Prison Industrial ComplexChicago Prison Industrial Complex Teaching Collective
- Video · via TransformHarmBeyond The Prison Industrial ComplexRuth Wilson Gilmore
Ruth Wilson Gilmore discusses her Critique of mass incarceration and outlines some strategies to reduce the over-reliance on incarceration and to build alternative pathways to safety and justice. This Program was recorded by Chicago Access Network…
- Article · via TransformHarmConsidering AbolitionMike Larsen
What is to be abolished? There is a recurring discussion in the abolitionist literature regarding the prefix that should accompany ‘abolition’. A recent addition to this ongoing dialogue, published in Contemporary Justice Review, is Piché and Larsen’s…
- PDF · via TransformHarmIntroduction: Prison Reform or Prison Abolition? Are Prisons ObsoleteAngela Y. Davis
- Article · via TransformHarmYou Are Already an AbolitionistBenji Hart
The Trump administration has proposed its first federal budget. As expected, it promises to cut back or remove funding for environmental protection, after-school programs and the arts, while dramatically upping spending on the military, law enforcement and…
- PDF · via TransformHarmWhat is Abolition?Critical Resistance
- PDF · via TransformHarmThe Abolitionist ToolkitCritical Resistance
- Website · via TransformHarmirrestible.orgirresistible
Formerly known as the Healing Justice Podcast, irresistible is a media archive of powerful practices for healing & social justice from 2017-2020.
- Video · via TransformHarmFeminist Futures Political Education Series: Healing JusticeWomen’s March
In Session 5 of Feminist Futures, we join Cara Page, Tamika Middleton and Susan Raffo — leaders in the movement for healing justice — and discuss the importance of restorative healing right now. ABOUT FEMINIST FUTURES: https://womensmarch.com/ ABOUT…
- Video · via TransformHarmTransVisible: The Black Trans Prayer BookThe Black Trans Prayer Book
J Mase III is a Black trans queer poet and educator based in Seattle, by way of Philadelphia. He is the author of And Then I Got Fired: One Transqueer’s Reflections on Grief, Unemployment, and Inappropriate Jokes about Death and founder of awQward, the…
- Video · via TransformHarmA new theology of survival for the Black trans communityJ Mase III
J Mase III is a poet, an educator and a self-taught theologian. He is also a black trans man whose work is focused on the intersection of faith and social justice. This has led him, along with Lady Dane Figueroa Edidi, to create a new theology, the tenants…
- Website · via TransformHarmHealing Justice and Holistic Security FrameworksAstraea Lesbian Foundation For Justice
Healing justice and holistic security are frameworks that have emerged and evolved in relationship to place-based organizing. They are concepts and practices that we, as funders, are seeing more and more in many different cultural communities and movement…
- Website · via TransformHarmVoices from the GroundAstraea Lesbian Foundation For Justice
Read resource content at the original source link. This is a critical moment for the world and for our movements. Heightened anti-immigrant, anti-Black, misogynist and anti-LGBTQI violence; increased government surveillance and policing; and the closing of…
- Website · via TransformHarmResilience & Healing ResourcesJane Doe Inc.
“Resiliency is the act of recovering and adapting in the face of trauma, stress and negative life altering events. We become more resilient when we teach empathy and self-awareness, celebrate our accomplishments, and demonstrate self-efficacy.”
- Website · via TransformHarmPeople’s Movement Center: ResourcesPeople’s Movement Center
Reflections from the USSF by Susan Raffo and Cara Page Reflections from Detroit: Transforming Wellness by Cara Page Transformative Change by Cara Page Just Healing by Tanuja Jugernauth Communities of Care by Yashna Padamsee Healing Justice is more than…
- Website · via TransformHarmJust Healing Resource SiteJust Healing
The Healing Justice Practice Space is an all-gendered, all-bodied space for practicing and receiving healing. We will offer all participants in the Allied Media Conference, community massage therapy, energy work, community acupuncture, herbal therapy,…
- Website · via TransformHarmTransformative Mutual Aid PracticesTransformative Mutual Aid Practices
Transformative Mutual Aid Practices (T-MAPs) are a set of tools that provide space for building a personal “map” of wellness strategies, resilience practices, unique stories, and community resources. Creating a T-MAP will inspire you to connect your…
- Website · via TransformHarmHealing Histories ProjectHealing Histories Project
Transformative Mutual Aid Practices (T-MAPs) are a set of tools that provide space for building a personal “map” of wellness strategies, resilience practices, unique stories, and community resources. Creating a T-MAP will inspire you to connect your…
- Website · via TransformHarmResource Guide to Trauma-Informed Human ServicesAdministration for Children & Families
The Administration for Children and Families, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administrations, the Administration for Community Living, the Offices of the Assistant Secretary for Health and the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation…
- Video · via TransformHarmTraining For PractitionersTRACC for Movements
Our INTRODUCTION TO MOVEMENT TRAUMA FOR HEALERS SERIES provides an introduction to the landscape of movement trauma, create a common language with which we, as healers, can collaborate together towards this national and global cause of healing in…
- Video · via TransformHarmA Black Feminist Talk & Workshop: Rooting in Abolitionist Dreams for Collective Care & SafetyCara Page
A collaborative learning workshop towards designing liberatory & possible futures for our communities. We will explore transformative skills and tools rooted in Black Feminist and Healing Justice traditions and dreams. We will also imagine what…
- Video · via TransformHarmWhat is Healing Justice?Kymani M. Jade
Habari Gani, my good people?! Happy Healing Justice! There’s been much talk about Social Justice, Self-care, and the Politics of Healing this year. Healing Justice, Emotional Justice, Restorative Justice, Transformative Justice, Chet, Al, and the rest of…
- PDF · via TransformHarmRootworkin’ for the Rev ZineHoodoo Hawtie Hive
Crafted by the Hoodoo Hawtie Hive, this zine is a 40 page body of work dedicated to building collective knowledge and skills for Black people to use ancestral technologies to heal and liberate our people. It contains recipes, songs, herbal recommendations,…
- Article · via TransformHarmWhat It Means to Center “Healing Justice” in WellnessKrysten Peck
I think the allure of wellness has a lot to do with agency; there’s a sense of empowerment in making decisions about our well-being when so much of life is beyond our control. When our world is rocked sideways, we can always turn inward, relying on our…
- Video · via TransformHarmWhat is ‘Healing Justice’?Patrisse Cullors
Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors and activist Cara Page explain the theory and the communal benefits.
- Article · via TransformHarmPandemic Mental Health Safety PlanQueeringPsychology
A pandemic is a whole other ball game. We are dealing with social isolation, government incompetence and cruelty (at least in the US), institutional/medical racism, etc. This pandemic is adding so much extra stress into our lives. Stress isn’t a…
- PDF · via TransformHarmFinding Belonging CurriculumArtSeed, Young Cultural Stewards
The Belonging Initiative is a collaboration between Young Cultural Stewards and Tonika Johnon. This collaboration between ArtSeed, YCS Fellows, Inferno, and TRACE has engaged over 6,000 youth across 100 Chicago parks to explore questions aroundbelonging,…
- Audio · via TransformHarmFortificationPrentis Hemphill
In our final conversation for Season 3, Caitlin spoke with Prentis Hemphill. The conversation touches on complicating innocence and guilt, transformative justice practices, movement culture and patterns and much more. Check it out. Prentis Hemphill is…
- Audio · via TransformHarmHealing Justice as Cultural OrganizingMic Check! Podcast
What is the glue that binds our resistance work? How does healing justice fit into our resistance for the long haul? We sat down with Kifu Faruq of the Icarus Project to discuss healing justice as a foundational part of organizing and activism work. As…
- PDF · via TransformHarmThe Art of Flocking: Cultural Stewardship In the ParksTerra Foundation for American Art
The Art of Flocking Curriculum & Documentary Film The Art of Flocking: Cultural Stewardship in the Parks is a celebration of Chicago’s community-based art practices nurtured within the Chicago Park District. Hosted in partnership with the Terra Foundation…
- PDF · via TransformHarmHealing Justice ToolkitJustice Teams Network, Dignity & Power Now
- PDF · via TransformHarmDignity & Power Now!Justice Teams Network
Healing requires that we pay attention to the whole body, this includes the emotional, spiritual, and psychological bodies. Today we are launching a Healing Justice Toolkit that outlines the past seven years of DPN’s Healing Justice work. This toolkit is a…
- PDF · via TransformHarmStrategies for SurvivorsPhilly Survivor Support Collective
- Article · via TransformHarmHealing Justice at the US Social Forum: A report from Atlanta, Detroit & BeyondSusan Raffo
- Article · via TransformHarmMore healing, more of the timeDori Midnight
I am thinking a lot about B. Loewe’s article “An End to Self- Care” right now. I’m trying to figure out if he’s saying what I think he’s saying, what I hope he’s trying to say, or what I’m afraid he’s saying. No matter what it is, I am having some…
- Article · via TransformHarmA Not-So-Brief Personal History of the Healing Justice Movement, 2010–2016Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
“Our movements themselves have to be healing, or there’s no point to them” —Cara Page, Kindred: Southern Healing Justice Collective Everyone I know longs for healing. It’s just hard to get. The good kind of healing. Healing that is affordable, has…
- Article · via TransformHarmCommunities of Care, Organizations for LiberationYashna Maya Padamsee
Stop talking about Self-Care In the last 3 years as I talk about the Healing Justice (HJ) work I am involved in I am met with dueling responses of either deep yearning and curiosity about sustainability or a look that says “how sweet” and “call me when…
- Audio · via TransformHarm34 Trauma, Healing, & Collective Power with generative somaticsirresistible
Episode is available at original source link. This week, we’re listening in as a brilliant crew from generative somatics has a powerful conversation about trauma, oppression, healing and organizing for structural change. They dig into the connections…
- Article · via TransformHarmOur Relationships Keep Us Alive: Let’s Prioritize Them in 2018Ejeris Dixon
This story is the second in Truthout’s “Visions of 2018” series, in which activist leaders answer the question: “What would you like to see created, built, imagined or begun this year?” Each piece will focus on a bold idea for transformation, to give us…
- Article · via TransformHarmWhat is healing justice and how would it affect this gathering?Susan Raffo, Cara Page
What is healing justice and how would it affect this gathering? Yesterday I got to record a podcast conversation about the healing justice work at the USSF in Atlanta and Detroit with Cara Page and Kate Werning. I got off the phone and then went back to…
- Article · via TransformHarmHealing justice, history and why I still believe in liberationSusan Raffo
The Medical Industrial Complex with gratitude to Mia Mingus, Patty Berne and Cara Page (plus others) Very simply, if we are not careful, all of our healing justice work is going to become just another piece of the machine. If we are not careful, the…
- Video · via TransformHarmInterview with dharma teacher and artist, Ayesha Ali – “What We Gonna Do?”Richael Faithful
An interview with artist and dharma teacher, Ayesha Ali, about her piece, “What We Gonna Do?” with Richael Faithful. This interview was recorded outside the Edgewood Arts Center in DC; there is city and ambient noises in the background. Credit and thanks…
- Article · via TransformHarmA modest Proposal for a Fair Trade Emotional Labor EconomyLeah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Genesis The thing about being a working class or poor and/or disabled and/or parenting and/or Black, Indigenous or brown femme is that people are going to ask you to do stuff for them. Oh, are they ever. They’re going to ask you to listen, do a favor, do…
- Article · via TransformHarmHealing Justice Is How We Can Sustain Black LivesPrentis Hemphill
Right now, those of us most vulnerable and least protected are under attack and whole communities―Black, Muslim, disabled, queer, trans, and women-identified folks are being targeted in the streets and in legislative halls. The threats are real and…
- PDF · via TransformHarmHealing Justice Practice Spaces: A How-To GuideAutumn Brown, Maryse Mitchell-Broday
- Website · via TransformHarmnineteen sixty ninenineteen sixty nine
Healing Justice articles from Volume 2, Issue 1. Read article at original source link.
- PDF · via TransformHarmA Guide For Community Building and Collective Strategizing for Safer and Peaceful CommunitiesMichelle Emery
This guide is dedicated to the many mentors and teachers who have helped me along the way. Many of whom I will not be able to name here but were and continue to be very present and supportive in my life and in the work I do. These folks have fed me, held…
- Article · via TransformHarmHealing Justice and the Potential for Community Based ScienceAurora Levins Morales
These are series of speculations on what recent insights in a variety of areas of science could mean for a community based healing movement that includes amateur research infused with radical understandings of what we mean by health and environment, and…
- Article · via TransformHarmJAGERNAUTH: Just HealingTanuja Jagernauth
We know people in pain. Members in pain, leaders in pain and even organizers in pain. While there is the joy and relief that can come from a strong campaign victory, there are some battle wounds that endure. Standing on the shoulders of healers from…
- Article · via TransformHarmReflections from Detroit: Transforming Wellness & WholenessCara Page
Transforming Wellness & Wholeness I come by way of Black Seminole, African American and Austrian ancestry a mixed creed despite eugenic laws that would render me dead or expendable. I write this piece in memory of my ancestors and allies. We will find…
- PDF · via TransformHarmSupporting a Survivor of Sexual AssaultUBUNTU, Men Against Rape Culture
- PDF · via TransformHarmAgainst EqualityDean Spade
- Website · via TransformHarmCONVERGE! Reimagining the Movement to End Gender ViolenceUniversity of Miami Race and Social Justice Law Review
- Website · via TransformHarmResponding to Violence, Restoring JusticeBarnard Center for Research on Women
- Website · via TransformHarmShifting from Carceral to Transformative Justice FeminismsCarceral Feminism
- Article · via TransformHarmWhen a Miscarriage Becomes a Jail SentenceCaroline Reilly
- Article · via TransformHarmPortland Police’s “Human Trafficking” Arrests Aren’t What They SeemKarina Brown
- Audio · via TransformHarmThe Ohio AG says stings rescue trafficking victims. Often that means they’re arrested.Leila Goldstein
- Audio · via TransformHarmOnlyFans Changes and Discussion About How Many Anti-Trafficking Organizations Cause More HarmTrafficking Survivors Podcast
- PDF · via TransformHarmTransforming The Vawa Self-petition To RemedyMonica Ramsy
- Article · via TransformHarmSection 230 of the U.S. Communications Decency Act: How so-called anti-trafficking legislation justifies the incarceration of sex workersEmily Elyse
- Article · via TransformHarmWhat is Abolition Feminism, What Is Carceral Feminism & What Could a World Without Prisons Look Like?Ethical Unicorn
- Audio · via TransformHarmDomestic violence, race, class and the edge of carceral feminismAya Gruber, This Is Hell!
- Article · via TransformHarmBack in Prison, Transgender Woman Faces an Old Horror, Sexual AssaultThe New York Times
- Article · via TransformHarmA Reckoning Inside the Domestic-Violence MovementZoë Carpenter
- Video · via TransformHarmRe-Imagining Our Legacy: Transforming from Criminalization to LiberationVirginia Sexual & Domestic Violence Action Alliance
- Article · via TransformHarmWho Keeps Us Safe?Maia Hibbett
- Article · via TransformHarmAnti-Carceral FeminismEmily L. Thuma
- Article · via TransformHarmHow Police Became the Go-to Response to Domestic ViolenceAya Gruber
- Article · via TransformHarmWhat Follows Punishment?Aviva Stahl
- Article · via TransformHarmHow Feminists Resisted Prisons and Policing in the 1970sEmily L. Thuma, Truthout
- Article · via TransformHarmEnding Mass Incarceration Webinar Series by National Clearinghouse for the Defense of Battered WomenNCDBW
- Video · via TransformHarmAll Our Trials: Prisons, Policing, and the Feminist Fight to End ViolenceCritical Resistance
- Article · via TransformHarmThe political whiteness of #MeTooAlison Phipps
- Article · via TransformHarmLocking people up won’t help combat sexual violenceAnn Russo
- Audio · via TransformHarmTransformative justice in an era of mass criminalizationThe Activist Files Podcast
- Article · via TransformHarmLet Us Survive: Demanding the Decriminalization of Sex WorkRed S.
- Website · via TransformHarmCriminalizing Survival: A Resource of Curricula and ActivitiesSurvived & Punished
- PDF · via TransformHarmNew S&P Curriculum Unit for Domestic Violence Awareness MonthSurvived & Punished
- Article · via TransformHarmNon-carceral approaches to #MeTooNicole Froio
- Video · via TransformHarmSurvived and punished | Ny Nourn | TEDxPeacePlazaNy Nourn
- PDF · via TransformHarmFrom carceral feminism to transformative justice: Women-of-color feminism and alternatives to incarcerationMimi Kim
- Article · via TransformHarmThe Sentencing of Larry Nassar was Not ‘Transformative Justice.’ Here’s Why.Kelly Hayes, Mariame Kaba
- Article · via TransformHarm#MeToo must avoid “carceral feminism”Alex Press
- Article · via TransformHarm(re)Thinking Sex Positivity, Abolition Feminism, and the #MeToo Movement: Opportunity for a New SynthesisAbolition Journal, Brooke Lober
- Article · via TransformHarmWill Feminism’s Past Mistakes Haunt #MeToo?Judith Levine
- Article · via TransformHarmToward a Radical Imagination of LawAmna Akbar
- Audio · via TransformHarmSurvival and Resistance: Women Organizing towards AbolitionRustbelt Abolition Radio
- Video · via TransformHarmArrested Justice: Black Feminist Reflections on Carceral Feminism and Prison AbolitionBeth E. Richie
- PDF · via TransformHarmReimagining the Movement to End Gender Violence: Anti-racism, Prison Abolition, Women of Color Feminisms, and Other Radical Visions of JusticeBeth E. Richie
- Video · via TransformHarmMore Laws = More Violence: Criminalization as a Failed Strategy for Anti-Violence MovementsBarnard Center for Research on Women
- Article · via TransformHarmAgainst Carceral FeminismVictoria Law
- PDF · via TransformHarmNo Selves to DefendMariame Kaba
- Video · via TransformHarmQueer Dreams and Nonprofit Blues: Lessons from Anti-Violence MovementsDean Spade
- Article · via TransformHarmHow Anti-violence Activism Taught Me to Become a Prison AbolitionistBeth E. Richie
- PDF · via TransformHarmAgainst Innocence: Race, Gender, and the Politics of SafetyJackie Wang
- Article · via TransformHarmDisrupting the Relationship between the Anti-Violence Movement and the PICChez Rumph, Chicago Prison Industrial Complex Teaching Collective
- PDF · via TransformHarmHeteropatriarchy Kills: Challenging Gender Violence in a Prison NationAngela P. Harris
- Video · via TransformHarmResisting Gender Violence Without Cops or PrisonsVictoria Law
- PDF · via TransformHarmCaptive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial ComplexEric A. Stanley, Nat Smith
- PDF · via TransformHarmAddressing Abolition, Violence, Race and Gender Critical Resistance at 10Kristian Williams
- PDF · via TransformHarmAnti-Violence and Prison Industrial Complex TimelineCommunities Against Rape and Abuse
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