Defining Transformative Justice
- Transformative justice: a harm-reductionist approach to healing and true justice for those oppressed by the criminal justice carceral system
- Informational video on the basics →
Podcast Episodes on Transformative Justice (Collaborative playlist)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-_BOFz5TXo
- Individual justice and collective liberation and inseparable and dependent on each other.
- We must address the violence in our systems in any attempts to achieve individual justice.
- Our current system’s punitive models perpetuate cycles of violence.
- We must divest from state models and prioritize accountability and care for those have been harmed AND who have harmed.
Transformative justice tool: Podmapping
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← Podmapping can be used an approach to address community harm. One possible way this occurs is accountability and reparations processes for both the person that was harmed and the person who harmed
Defining Disability Justice
- Disability oppression does not happen in isolation but intersects with other identities including race, class, gender, sexuality, etc.
- Over the years, some disability activists have argued that the disability rights movement and disability studies as a field have failed to address intersectional oppression faced by individuals with disabilities, centered on people who are Indigenous, Black, racialized, LGBTQ2+, poor, and incarcerated
10 Principles of Disability Justice, Disability Resource Center at the University of Arizona (Sins Invalid)
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The disability justice framework seeks to “end ableism in conjunction with ending other systems of oppression” (Jampel, 2018, p. 3)
Defining Climate Justice
- Climate change as a social justice issue, not an environmental one
- Recognizes disproportionate impacts towards a just future
Key Tenants and Demands of Climate Justice
- Disproportionate impacts of climate change on the most marginalized human populations
- Limitations of conventional political and economic responses to rising climate instability