Transformative Justice Can Only Exist If It’s Black

Hunter Ashleigh Shackelford
13 min readNov 25, 2020

Mia Mingus of the Bay Area Transformative Justice Collective defines transformative justice as “a way to respond to violence within our communities in ways that 1.) don’t create more harm and violence and 2.) actively work to cultivate the very things that we know will prevent violence, such as accountability, healing, trust, connection, safety.”

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