Asking people to organize their pod was much more concrete than asking people to organize their “community.” The shared language and concept of “pod” made transformative justice more accessible. Gone were the fantasies of a giant, magical “community response,” filled with people we had only surface relationships with. Instead, we challenged ourselves and others to build solid pods of people through relationship and trust. Doing so pushes us to be specific about what those relationships look like and how they are built. It places relationship-building at the very center of transformative
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