Title:
Beyond survival : strategies and stories from the transformative justice movement
Author:
Piepzna-Samarasinha, Leah Lakshmi, 1975- editor.
ISBN:
9781849353625
Physical Description:
347 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Contents:
Part one: making the road by dreaming: stories of accountability. Building community safety: practical steps toward liberatory transformation / Ejeris Dixon ; Beyond firing: how do we create community-wide accountability for sexual harassment in our movements? / Amanda Aguilar Shank ; Isolation cannot heal isolation: one survivor's response to sexual assault / Blyth Barnow ; Excerpt from "Black Queer Feminism as Praxis: Building an Organization and a Movement" / Janaé E. Bonsu of BYP100 ; From breaking silence to community control: community-controlled databases, murder investigations, and ceremony to find missing and murdered indigenous women, girls, and two-spirit people / Audrey Huntley ; What to do when you've been abusive: annotated edition / Kai Cheng Thom ; Transforming family: a story of accountability / Amita Swadhin -- Part two: we got this: toolkits and road maps. Philly stands up!: A portrait of praxis, an anatomy of accountability / Esteban Lance Kelly and Jenna Peters-Golden with Qui Alexander, Bench Ansfield, Beth Blum, and Dexter Rose of Philly Stands Up! Collective ; Goal-setting tool: dealing with strong negative feelings and fantasy during goal setting / Creative Interventions ; Excerpts from Ending Child Sexual Abuse: a Transformative Justice Handbook / Staci K. Haines, Raquel Laviña, Chris Lymbertos, Rj Maccani, and Nathan Shara ; Pods and pod-mapping worksheet / Mia Mingus for the Bay Area Transformative Justice Collective ; When it all comes crashing down: navigating crisis / The Fireweed Collective (formerly known as The Icarus Project) ; Why no nonconsensual active rescue? / Trans Lifeline ; Maybe you don't have to call 911? Know your options / Oakland Power Projects ; Excerpts from the Whose Security Is It Anyway? Toolkit / Lara Brooks and Mariame Kaba ; Excerpt from Community Defense Zone Starter Guide / Georgia Latino Alliance for Human Rights (GLAHR), Mijente, and Puenta Arizona ; Excerpts from The Safer Party Toolkit / Safe OUTside the System Collective, Audre Lorde Project -- Part three: We didn't call it TJ, but maybe it worked anyway? Messy, real stories. When your money counts on it: sex work and transformative justice / An interview with Monica Forrester and Elene Lam, by Chanelle Gallant ; I would like to return my TJ process, or discarding TJ like we discard femmes / Ejeris Dixon ; Vent diagrams as healing practice: TJ tips from the overlap / Elisabeth Long ; Facing shame: from saying sorry to doing sorry / Nathan Shara ; Cripping TJ / Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha ; What is/isn't transformative justice? / adrienne maree brown -- Part four: What did we dream then, what do we know now?: Movement histories and futures. Our hearts are beating together: a conversation with some TJ old heads / Adrian Cole, YaliniDream, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, and Jenna Peters-Golden, Ejeris Dixon and Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha ; Every mistake I've ever made: an interview with Shira Hassan / Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha ; Be humble: an interview with Mariame Kaba / by Ejeris Dixon and Leah Piepzna-Samarasinha ; Excerpt from "Moving beyond critique" / Mimi Kim ; How we learned (are learning) transformative justice / adrienne maree brown.
Abstract:
"Transformative justice seeks to solve the problem of violence at the grassroots level, without relying on punishment, incarceration, or policing. Community-based approaches to preventing crime and repairing its damage have existed for centuries. However, in the putative atmosphere of contemporary criminal justice systems, they are often marginalized and operate under the radar. Beyond Survival puts these strategies front and center as real alternatives to today's failed models of confinement and "correction." In this collection, a diverse group of authors focuses on concrete and practical forms of redress and accountability, assessing existing practices and marking paths forward. They use a variety of forms--from toolkits to personal essays--to delve deeply into the "how to" of transformative justice, providing alternatives to calling the police, ways to support people having mental health crises, stories of community-based murder investigations, and much more. At the same time, they document the history of this radical movement, creating space for long-time organizers to reflect on victories, struggles, mistakes, and transformations. Featuring writing, tools and interviews by Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Kai Cheng Thom, Amita Swadhin, Audrey Huntley, Amanda Aguilar Shank, Janae E Bonsu of BYP100, Philly Stands Up (Esteban Kelly, Jenna Peters-Golden, Qui Dorian, Bench Ansfield and Beth Blum), Creative Interventions, Trans Lifeline, Bay Area Transformative Justice Collective, Oakland Power Projects, SOS Collective/Audre Lorde Project, Icarus Project/ Fireweed Collective, Raquel Lavina, Chris Lymbertos, RJ Maccani, Nathan Shara, Staci Haines, Georgia Latino Alliance For Human Rights, MIJENTE, Monica Sehovic Bowen Forrester, Elene Lam, Chanelle Gallant, Elisabeth Marie Long, adrienne maree brown, Adrian Cole, Yalini Dream, Shira Hassan, Mariame Kaba and Mimi Kim."-- Provided by publisher.
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