Organizing Transformative Justice Responses to Gender-based Violence and Campus Sexual Violence
Live transcription is available here.
Resources mentioned during the conversation:
– transformharm.org (online resource hub)
– Fumbling Towards Repair (workbook by Mariame Kaba and Shira Hassan)
– Building Accountable Communities (transformative justice video series)
– What is Transformative Justice? (video)
– Podmapping Worksheet (by Mia Mingus for the BATJC)
As university campuses struggle to meet the call to address sexual violence, significant questions about what actually causes and could actually end this harm continue to surface. Movement organizing against policing and criminalization have highlighted that prosecution of individuals is a problematic and insufficient way to address sexual violence over the long-haul, and often leaves survivors without support or resolution. Abolitionist organizers have cultivated Transformative Justice approaches to harm and violence, arguing that we must approach this work looking at root causes and collective transformation.
Join us for a conversation with Xhercis Méndez, founder of The University TJ Project, which works with faculty, staff, and administrators at institutions of higher education nationally to build local capacity to better respond to systemic harm, create adaptable accountability models, and expand the healing options available for a diverse range of survivors. Xhercis will be in conversation with Dean Spade, Professor at Seattle University School of Law and collaborator with BCRW and Project NIA on the Building Accountable Communities video series, among others.
This event is made possible by the Patricia Wismer Professorship in Gender and Diversity at Seattle University.
Accessibility
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Image Credit
The Distance Between Us, by Jess X. Snow.