Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement

BIPOC

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 punative 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.

 
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# of Pages: 260

Book Binding: Paperback

Year of Publication: 2020

Publisher: AK Press

Language: en

ISBN: 9781849353625

Ejeris Dixon and Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha are both highly respected activists, writers, and educators in the transformative justice movement. Dixon is a Black queer feminist organizer and writer who has been involved in anti-violence and racial justice work for over two decades. She has co-founded numerous organizations, including Vision Change Win Consulting and the BlackOUT Collective, and has been a key contributor to the development of transformative justice practices. Piepzna-Samarasinha is a queer Sri Lankan Tamil writer, performer, and teacher who has also been deeply engaged in transformative justice work for many years. She is the author of several books and has been a crucial voice in highlighting the intersections of race, gender, and disability in the movement. Together, Dixon and Piepzna-Samarasinha have co-edited the groundbreaking book, Beyond Survival, which showcases the powerful strategies and stories of the transformative justice movement.