Transformative Justice


Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement
We Do This 'til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice
We Will Not Cancel Us: And Other Dreams of Transformative Justice
Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds (Emergent Strategy, #0)
The Revolution Starts at Home: Confronting Intimate Violence Within Activist Communities
Fumbling Towards Repair: A Workbook for Community Accountability Facilitators
Conflict Is Not Abuse: Overstating Harm, Community Responsibility, and the Duty of Repair
Are Prisons Obsolete?
Turn This World Inside Out: The Emergence of Nurturance Culture
Saving Our Own Lives: A Liberatory Practice of Harm Reduction
The Care We Dream Of: Liberatory & Transformative Justice Approaches to LGBTQ+ Health
Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom
Holding Change: The Way of Emergent Strategy Facilitation and Mediation
Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good
We Keep Us Safe: Building Secure, Just, and Inclusive Communities
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
If folks do the same thing over and over and over again, and refuse to take accountability for that, and don't want to learn, they can actually be banned from a particular space. We do have to figure out the other side of that. Which is, somebody does take accountability, and does what people asked them to do. When are they allowed to rejoin community in good standing? That is something we have yet to figure out how to do in consistent fashion. Because you're never gonna be able to say somebo ...more
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement

Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Is this what we're here for? To cultivate a fear-based adherence to reductive common values? What can this lead to in an imperfect world full of sloppy, complex humans? Is it possible we will call each other out until there's no one left beside us? I've had tons of conversations with people who, in these moments of public flaying, avoid stepping up on the side of complexity or curiosity because in the back of our minds is the shared unspoken question: When will y'all come for me? ...more
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement

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