Transformative Justice

Mia Mingus is a Bay Area activist and community organizer and educator with the Bay Area Transformative Justice Collective. In this episode, Mia talks about the important work of love and transformative justice in order to foster community healing and accountability without the use of the criminal justice system.

*This segment includes conversation around child sexual abuse and may be triggering, so please take the care that you need before, during and after listening.

For more information on the Bay Area Transformative Justice Collective, and for a full transcript of Episode 2, visit the website at inplainsightradio.com.

Producer: Geraldine Ah-Sue
Advisor: Alice Wong

Music by:
Podington Bear – Chimera
Podington Bear – Firefly
Podington Bear – No Squirell Commotion
Chris Zabriskie – We Always Thought the Future Would be Kind of Fun

Episode 2 - The Work Of Love

*This is the third episode in the series on "Transforming the Medical Industrial Complex."

For the additional episodes and audio transcript, please visit our blog here: https://freerads.org/2016/08/23/transforming-the-medical-industrial-complex-from-isolation-to-healing-episode-3/#more-2511

How can the ideas of transformative justice be applied to the medical industrial complex (MIC) to bring healing to oppressed peoples? In the last two episodes, we discuss the ways the medical industrial complex prioritizes profit over healing and actively harms people. This episode, we invite our friend Jaden Fields to share his work in navigating the MIC while grounding himself in transformative justice. He runs an HIV education and empowerment program for trans people of color, cofounded a social support space for trans masculine folks, and advocates for approaches to eating disorders that are trans-inclusive and anti-racist.

Transformative Justice and Healing (part 3/3)

Abolitionists are committed to creating a world without police and prisons, but what alternative visions and practices of addressing intimate harm might point the way toward such a world? In this episode we explore efforts to re-imagine the politics of violence, harm, safety, and redress, spearheading practices of accountability and healing that move beyond the punitive logic of the carceral state.

Mia Mingus from the Bay Area Transformative Justice Collective discusses alternatives to carceral feminism, and how the movement to end child sexual abuse points the way toward radically re-imagining practices of justice. We also speak with Claudia Garcia-Rojas, co-director of The Chicago Taskforce on Violence Against Girls & Young Women, and Maya Schenwar, Editor-in-Chief of Truthout and author of Locked Down, Locked Out: Why Prison Doesn’t Work and How We Can Do Better.

Beyond Punishment: The Movement for Transformative Justice

Speaker(s): Professor Christine Bell, Dr Aisling Swaine | ‘Conflict-related violence against women’ is often understood to mean sexual violence, specifically rape used as a weapon of war. But this is only one part of a broad continuum of gender violence which must be understood and addressed within and across conflict settings. In her new book, Conflict-Related Violence Against Women: Transforming Transition, Aisling Swaine examines the contexts of Liberia, Northern Ireland and Timor-Leste to identify a spectrum of forms of gender violence. She analyses their occurrence, and the relationship between them, within and across different points of pre-, mid- and post-conflict. Swaine proposes that a transformation rather than a transition is required in the aftermath of conflict, if justice is to play a role in preventing gender violence. Christine Bell (@christinebelled) is Principal Director of the Political Settlements Research Programme, Assistant Principal (Global Justice), Co-Director, Global Justice Academy, and Professor of Constitutional Law, University of Edinburgh. Aisling Swaine (@AislingSwaine) is Assistant Professor of Gender and Security at the Department of Gender Studies, LSE, where she teaches primarily on the MSc in Women, Peace and Security. Christine Chinkin is Director of the Centre for Women, Peace and Security. The Centre for Women, Peace and Security (@LSE_WPS) is a leading academic space for scholars, practitioners, activists, policy-makers and students to develop strategies to promote justice, human rights and participation for women in conflict-affected situations around the world.

From Transitional To Transformative: justice for conflict-related violence against women [Audio]

Free radicals are known in chemistry as highly reactive molecules capable of breaking down other structures. Their power comes from their hunger for electronic stability. In that spirit, Free Radicals is a collective that aims to deconstruct science with a desire for social justice. We strive for an equilibrium in our progressive values and our science.

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Transformative Justice and Healing (part 3/3)

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