By JT Content warning: mention of child sexual abuse and invasive medical procedures Image description: Photo of a black night sky with part of a pinkish colored moon peaking out. I’ve been doing work with the BATJC since 2016 and I often share how being a part of...
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Transformative Justice Has Been a Struggle Lately
by Layel Camargo Image description: photo of a colorful wool coat collar and clasp and the neck of someone looking sideways. I have struggled to my core with making time for Transformative Justice lately. With having a full-time job to unpredictable family dynamics to...
New Year Intentions and Practicing Accountability
By Mia Mingus A new year is upon us and millions of people have resolutions and intentions they have set for 2018. I enjoy the collective reflecting, visioning and dreaming, as folks take stock of their lives and themselves. There is a hungry hope in the air that is...
Prelude to Transformation
By Sean 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...
Challenging Toxic Cultural Norms: Shifting From Solely Thinking and Adding Feelings
By Layel Camargo As a culture shifter from punishment to accountability, I have become familiar to some cultural norms that make it almost impossible for individuals to transform their harmful behavior. I have been consciously and intentionally supporting...
Healing and Justice, Together and Apart: Accountability Beyond the “Process”
By Alix Johnson In five years with the Bay Area Transformative Justice Collective, I have seen folks reaching toward accountability in different ways. We haven’t put out a definition or set of criteria for an “accountability process,” so people come asking for what it...