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
Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom
Saving Our Own Lives: A Liberatory Practice of Harm Reduction
The Care We Dream Of: Liberatory & Transformative Justice Approaches to LGBTQ+ Health
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
Most people doing transformative justice work didn't get into it because we thought it would be a random, fun thing to do. We do it because we're survivors, or the people closest to us are. We care about survivors; we know what it's like to survive brutal shit, often alone. We want to change the world so this stuff never happens again. ...more
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement

Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
I believe in a path back. I believe accountability can be a step toward greater wholeness, personally and as a movement. The project of building toward collective liberation is too important and too difficult to permanently cut people out when they make mistakes. We cannot afford it. Simply firing and excluding people who harass is a practice that mirrors the ultimately ineffective approach of the criminal justice system.
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement

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