Deana Lewis chats with Cara Page and Mia Mingus about their work in Atlanta during the early to mid 2000’s. They discuss the building of the Atlanta Transformative Justice Collaborative whose critical work intersected with the beginnings of the frameworks of healing justice and disability justice and the burgeoning reproductive justice movement. Mia and Cara talk about the impact of racism, Islamophobia, ableism, anti-immigrant, homophobic and reproductive oppression and the fallout from Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Their collective work contributed to what became some of the pillars of transformative justice work throughout the city of Atlanta, the South and beyond.

List of references mentioned in this episode:

Incite! Women & Trans People Against Violence, Critical Resistance, Kindred Southern Healing Justice Collective , Atlanta Transformative Justice Collaborative, Georgians for Choice became SPARK Reproductive Justice Now, Southerners on New Ground, Project South, Sister Song Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective, Sister Love (one of the first HIV AIDs organizations by and for Black Women), Asian Communities for Reproductive Justice, Raksha/Breaking the Silence Project & Sonali Saddequee, Generation Five, Loretta Ross, National Black Women’s Health Project, Queer Progressive Agenda, Communities United, Men Stopping Violence, Aishah Shahidah Simmons , Shannon Perez-Darby 

Presented by Creative Interventions and Just Practice Collaborative

Executive Producers — Mimi Kim, Rachel Caïdor & Shira Hassan

Producer, Sound Recordist, and Editor — iLL Weaver for Emergence Media

Host - Deana Lewis

Music Editor and Audio Engineer — Joe Namy

Digital Strategy- Yessica Gonzalez

Graphic Design - And Also Too

Theme song & music composed by — Scale Hands and L05 of Complex Movements in collaboration with Ahya Simone

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