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Abolition is not synonymous with destruction, but with transformation

​We keep us safe: the transformative justice movement

As calls for abolition grow louder, the queer and women of color-led movement for transformative justice offers a glimpse of a future beyond policing.

Survival as Transformative Justice: "Live and Work and Be Free and Heal"

To End Mass Incarceration, We Need to Bust the Myths That Prop It Up

To End Mass Incarceration, We Need to Bust the Myths That Prop It Up CatEyePerspective / iStock / ChuckSchugPhotography / E+ / Getty Images / Truthout By One of the most pervasive myths about incarceration is that it makes a society safer. Now, a leading journalist who focuses on the criminal legal system has taken on that question in her new book. Victoria Law is a prolific reporter who is perhaps best known for spending years in the trenches exploring the experiences of women in prison. Her work always centers the voices of impacted people, while maintaining a broad lens on mass incarceration and digging deep into a wider variety of issues related to prison and jails.

Francesca Ekwuyasi & Billy-Ray Belcourt among Canadian finalists for 2021 Lambda Literary Awards

Posted: Mar 16, 2021 9:44 AM ET | Last Updated: March 16 Francesca Ekwuyasi (left) and Billy-Ray Belcourt are two of the Canadian finalists for the 2021 Lambda Literary Awards.(Submitted by Francesca Ekwuyasi, Tenille Campbell) Francesca Ekwuyasi, Vivek Shraya and Billy-Ray Belcourt are among the Canadians nominated for the 2021 Lambda Literary Awards. The Lambda Literary Awards annually celebrate the best in LGBTQ literature from around the world. There are nine Canadian books nominated across 24 categories. Francesca Ekwuyasi is a finalist in the lesbian fiction category for her debut novel  Butter Honey Pig Bread tells the interwoven stories of twin sisters, Kehinde and Taiye, and their mother, Kambirinachi. Kambirinachi is convinced she was born an ogbanje, a spirit that plagues families with misfortune by dying in childhood to cause its mother misery. When the estranged women meet years later, they confront their past and find forgiveness through food from