What does transformative justice look like and where did it come from? Join us for a journey across local communities as we explore the last 25 years of building community accountability, transformative justice and abolitionist practice. Through the Stories for Power podcast, hosted by Deana Lewis, we trace the work of some of the architects and radical organizers of this current wave of work.
This podcast is part of the relaunch of STOP – the StoryTelling & Organizing Project – presented by Creative Interventions and Just Practice Collaborative. STOP collects and shares stories of everyday people, organizations and networks taking action to confront and end domestic and sexual violence through people power – not the power of the state. Learn more at StoriesforPower.org
Beth Richie and Alisa Bierria discuss abolition feminism with Deana Lewis, emphasizing practice as a lead to theory and reflecting on their shared grounding in anti-violence work in this interview.
17 Jun 2025
Radical Roots
Valli Kalei Kanuha, Mimi Kim, and Andrea Ritchie discuss the abolitionist feminist movement across generations and movements, highlighting the importance of Critical Resistance in an interview with Deana Lewis.
10 Jun 2025
Chicago
Mariame Kaba, Erica Meiners, and Shira Hassan discuss their abolitionist feminist work in Chicago, reflecting on community accountability processes and the failures of mainstream anti-violence movements in this interview with Deana Lewis.
3 Jun 2025
Seattle
Host Deana Lewis interviews Theryn Kigvamasudvashti, Kiyomi Fujikawa, and Shannon Perez-Darby about their Seattle community accountability work in the late 1990s and early 2000s, which innovated practices still used today.
27 May 2025
Philly
Deana Lewis interviews Esteban Kelly and Jenna Peters-Golden about Philly Stands Up's work to restore trust and justice within Philadelphia's punk community, developing accountability frameworks and supporting survivors.
20 May 2025
Atlanta
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 Hurr...
13 May 2025
San Francisco Bay Area
Join Deana Lewis as she speaks with our guests Rachel Herzing, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, and Mimi Kim about the essential organizing they were a part of to end violence without police, prisons and other carceral systems during the early to mid-2000’s in Oakland and San Francisco. They discuss the impact of the events of September 11, ongoing gentrification, and ableism on forming abolitionist politics and synergy with the work of Critical Resistance and Incite!. Their reflections on t...
6 May 2025
New York City
Host Deana Lewis speaks with abolitionist feminists kai lumumba barrow, Paula X. Rojas, and Ejeris Dixon about organizing in New York City during the late 90’s and early to mid 2000’s. Their work to end police violence was spurred by police murders of Black and Brown people in New York City, sexual violence by police that targeted young people in Brooklyn, and anti-queer and transphobic violence throughout the city. Their projects ~ Sista II Sista, Critical Resistance NYC, Safe Outside the Sy...
29 Apr 2025
Durham
In this episode, our host Deana Lewis, speaks with three Black feminist abolitionist organizers from Durham’s SpiritHouse. Nia Wilson, Mya Hunter and Alexis Pauline Gumbs discuss the Black and Brown survivor led group they formed called Ubuntu as a response to the Duke lacrosse rape case that led to the creation of one of the first Harm-Free Zones in the country. Their work as artists, educators and cultural organizers prompted a culture of care and community and fierce organizing that ...
22 Apr 2025
Trans & Queer Organizing
In this episode, host Deana Lewis talks with Micah Hobbs Frazier and Morgan Bassichis, two trans leaders of the transformative justice/prison abolition movement emerging out of radical organizing in queer/trans spaces in the early to mid-2000’s. Micah, in his role at generationFIVE and in the harm reduction movement, and Morgan, formerly at Communities United Against Violence (CUAV), reflect on the centrality of queer/trans justice, racial and economic justice, and prison abolition as anchors...
15 Apr 2025
Introduction
Welcome to Stories for Power! Creative Interventions and Just Practice Collaborative joined forces to re-launch the StoryTelling & Organizing Project (STOP) project to document and collect histories and stories about how we have been working to respond to violence without the use of prisons, police and other carceral systems. Deana Lewis, our podcast host and Just Practice Collaborative member, speaks with producers Mimi Kim, Rachel Caidor and Shira Hassan to introduce Stories for Power. ...
8 Apr 2025
Presenting: Stories for Power
What does transformative justice look like and where did it come from? Join us for a journey across local communities as we explore the last 25 years of building community accountability, transformative justice and abolitionist practice. Through the Stories for Power podcast, hosted by Deana Lewis, we trace the work of some of the architects and radical organizers of this current wave of work. This podcast is part of the relaunch of STOP – the StoryTelling & Organizing Project – pre...
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Beth Richie
Alisa Bierria
Valli Kalei Kanuha
Mimi Kim
Andrea Ritchie
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