we are a group of transformative justice practitioners, grief workers and embodiment activists who are in the process of unlearning and shedding the colonial framing and roots of our legal training. we came together to embody justice by healing from and practicing self-accountability around our entanglements in systems of oppression and by caring for our collective exits from institutions and cultures reproducing such systems.
we are committed to practicing towards collective liberation by
we do so by holding and facilitating spaces to feel, write, move, craft and be with one another.
we are alexandra lily kather (they/-), Ashley Jordana (she/her), Lisa-Marie Rudi (she/her), and val (valentina) azarova (they/-).
we are committed to practicing towards collective liberation by
- reclaiming responses to intra/inter-personal and collective forms of violence
- nurturing embodied, anticolonial visions and practices of international justice
we do so by holding and facilitating spaces to feel, write, move, craft and be with one another.
we are alexandra lily kather (they/-), Ashley Jordana (she/her), Lisa-Marie Rudi (she/her), and val (valentina) azarova (they/-).
vision
we seek to nurture an emergent counterculture of international justice, rooted in transformative, decolonial and abolitionist visions.
dominant and institutionalised responses to mass and structural violence promote punitive and retributive justice and carcerality, which are rooted in systems of coloniality and white supremacy.
we are longing to collectively feel into and practice embodied justice as an un/learning process that builds community, centres collective care and brings us back to each other - and our interdependence.
dominant and institutionalised responses to mass and structural violence promote punitive and retributive justice and carcerality, which are rooted in systems of coloniality and white supremacy.
we are longing to collectively feel into and practice embodied justice as an un/learning process that builds community, centres collective care and brings us back to each other - and our interdependence.
strategy
we develop anticolonial praxes by coming together to undo the harmful belief systems and practices we have taught to mean “justice”.. we are learning to embody and be held by collective care, decolonial solidarity and love for each other and our collective liberation.
we hold community spaces and design processes in support of:
all to enable collective imagining of justice and accountability “otherwise”. these may be spaces or processes that centre intersectionality, community, healing, and transformation.
we are growing and emerging, guided by lineages of black feminist and indigenous wisdom, prison-police abolition struggles and praxes of alternative justice, such as community accountability and transformative justice where “healing is at the center”. we are especially inspired by adrienne maree brown’s emergent strategy teachings, which inspired the name of our collective.
we hold community spaces and design processes in support of:
- our collective exits from oppressive systems,
- our personal and collective un/learning and healing
all to enable collective imagining of justice and accountability “otherwise”. these may be spaces or processes that centre intersectionality, community, healing, and transformation.
we are growing and emerging, guided by lineages of black feminist and indigenous wisdom, prison-police abolition struggles and praxes of alternative justice, such as community accountability and transformative justice where “healing is at the center”. we are especially inspired by adrienne maree brown’s emergent strategy teachings, which inspired the name of our collective.
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