Dear All, We, the members of the Transformative Justice Kollektiv have decided to dissolve the Collective. This has many reasons. This kind of work can be very energizing, however it is also very exhausting – many of us have felt this at different moments over the past 9 years. Since we started working together in 2011, we have grown a… Read more →
We’re back
The “What Really Makes Us Safe?” Project is back in Berlin for the summer and ready to dig deeper into our collective fears and fantasies about the ‘S’ word (pssst: S*A*F*E*T*Y). We continue to refuse a vision of negative ‘safety’ that’s actually about security – borders, checks, cameras, cages, lockdown, and punishment. We continue to refuse the criminalization of people… Read more →
“For Radical Decarceration: Abolition & Transf Justice in the US” – new article
Für die radikale Entknastung. Abolitionismus und transformative Gerechtigkeit in den USA “For Radical Decarceration: Abolition and Transformative Justice in the US” new article from Mel from the Collective in the current issue of the iz3w Magazine (in German) Read more →
“Safety Toolbox” Prints on etsy
Holiday present for the abolitionist feminist in your life? Artist Andrea Marcos made the linocut image of the safety toolbox that graces the cover of the “What really makes us safe?” book. Andrea’s hand-made prints are now available on etsy. All profits go towards Andrea to fund her work making political struggle more beautiful. More on Andrea: An artist for… Read more →
TJ Radio: Book presentation now online
Fee & Mel from the Collective presented the “What really makes us safe? Toolkit for Intersectional Transformative Justice Beyond Police & Prisons” at the “Liberated Days” festival in Dresden. The presentation was recorded and now available here for you on TJ radio: Read more →
Handbook for Transformative Work with Persons Causing Harm
For everyone with confusion about how to address people in your life who have caused sexual harm, here is a German-language guide from RESPONS Kollektiv. Several members of the TJ Kollketiv Berlin contributed to this handbook and we’re very happy to be able to offer it as a resource. It explains concretely how to plan and implement what we call… Read more →
Wrapping up the book tour
Phew! The book tour was a whirlwind. Thanks to collaborators Sanchita Basu, Jen Petzen, Fee Grabow, Lisa Monz, Jaya Chakravarti, Tine, Nadija Samour, Zoya Honarmand and Farzada for carrying this collective show on the road from London to Barcelona to Berlin and around Germany. For those who are feeling they missed out, feel free to check out our workshop (in… Read more →
All things -book- : Order yours! Tour Dates! Book Launch in Berlin!
“What really makes us safe?” Book The “What really makes us safe?” project that we’ve been working on for the past several years culminated in the publication of a toolkit last summer, which many of our collaborators and allies like LesMigras, Hydra, and Women in Exile contributed to. The toolkit is still available to download here, and has now been… Read more →
#ReallySafe Public Art Project
We are inviting folks to get creative in their sci-fi imaginations of futures without violence or punishment. We know that what people say should make us safe (like police, prisons, and borders) actually does the opposite. So we want to hear from you — what would really make you feel safe? What would safety feel and taste and smell like?… Read more →
Research Roundtable
Do you want to learn more about transformative justice through research? Do you work on topics related to: sexual & partner violence, state violence (policing, border regimes, prison), sex work, carceral feminism/femonationalism/instrumentalization of queer-feminism, critique of punishment/criminology, restorative and transformative justice alternatives, conflict mediation? We are hosting a roundtable for people who research or want to research on transformative justice… Read more →