What good is the concept of justice when most people use the word as functionally synonymous with "vengeance"?
How do we divorce justice from punishment? What does that even look like?
I just wonder if maybe healing, safety, fairness, and compassion are more useful goals than justice.
There's this pervasive idea of justice as inherently penal and vindictive. How do we dig ourselves out of this hole?
We gotta stop hurting each other.
op may already be aware of these, but other people might not be.
https://transformharm.org/ - collection of writing about all kinds of restorative, transformative, and healing justice work and theory
https://rjdtoolkit.impactjustice.org/ - a toolkit for putting RJ/TJ into practice in your community
https://healingjusticeproject.org/ - more about healing justice, focusing especially on people who have been or are incarcerated or impacted by the “criminal justice system”
http://www.brattleborocjc.org/blog/indigenous-roots-of-restorative-justice - restorative justice has been an indigenous practice for millennia. you can start to learn more about some of them here, but please don’t be afraid to read more!
https://www.beam.community/healing-justice - RJ/TJ/HJ is also a powerful tool in Black justice movements; you can read a little more about its use by Black healers and warriors here.
https://batjc.wordpress.com/resources/pods-and-pod-mapping-worksheet/ - lots of great resources on this blog, but this piece is where you can learn about pods - small circles of relationships that turn to each other to respond to violence
http://restorativejustice.org/ - an international RJ organization, tons of resources on this site
https://brownstargirl.org/care-work-dreaming-disability-justice/ - care work: dreaming disability justice by leah lakshmi piepszna-samarasinha. worth getting the book; some essays are available online if you look around, and i can probably get them to you if you’re having trouble.
while you’re at it, check out https://www.sinsinvalid.org/blog/10-principles-of-disability-justice for more about disability justice
https://www.feministes-radicales.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/Angela-Davis-Are_Prisons_Obsolete.pdf - pdf of are prisons obsolete? by angela davis
i love you. keep reading, keep learning, keep fighting. this is how we heal our world
