I wanted to share some highlights from tonight’s conversation by @GI_NewYork on healing & transformative justice, because Mariame Kaba, Cara Page, and Adaku Utah created a space filled with so much love and care:

“Before healing justice and transformative justice became these popularized terms, there were ways our communities, not just human, but nature and the cells in our bodies, have organized themselves on purpose to support our wellness, safety, and resilience.”- @LoveISinfin8

“What does it mean to bear witness to health across different spectrums of healing? What does it mean to build relationships to sustain through generations, to pass down recipes and remedies and rituals to support our people in surviving across time?” - @LoveISinfin8

“We are trying to rebuild the world from its roots, by actually spending time not just thinking about, but practicing different social relations. So that we can get to the point where we have prefigured the world in which we want to live.” - @prisonculture

“I want us to just imagine building power in relationship to embodying interdependence, by being able to integrate grief into our liberation.” - Cara Page

“We need to move like we need each other” -Cara Page

@prisonculture also shared a quote from “Need: A Chorale for Black Woman Voices” by Audre Lorde:

“I do not even know all their names./ My sisters deaths are not noteworthy/ not threatening enough to decorate the evening news”

There is so much room in our current moment to think about the kinds of relationships we want to form and how we want to hold our ourselves, our chosen family, and our communities. I was grateful to have a little space to do that tonight