A wider web of people and practice
This work belongs to a movement much larger than any one practice. Here are some of the organizations, lineages, and writings that shape it — and places to turn for support. Listing here doesn't mean affiliation; these are independent organizations doing their own good work.
Right now, tonight
If you are in immediate danger, please reach out to people you trust, a local crisis line, or emergency services — whatever feels safest to you. For confidential support around sexual harm, any hour:
National Sexual Assault Hotline (RAINN)
Free, confidential, 24/7 — phone and online chat.
Close to home
Charlottesville
Sexual Assault Resource Agency (SARA)
Advocacy, support, and education for people affected by sexual violence in Central Virginia.
Charlottesville
Shelter for Help in Emergency
Support and shelter for people experiencing domestic violence.
Charlottesville
The Women's Initiative
Counseling and mental-health support, with attention to access and affordability.
Charlottesville / Albemarle
Region Ten Community Services Board
Public behavioral health and crisis services for the region.
Please confirm current contact details and services directly with each organization.
The movement this work grows from
New York
Hidden Water
Founded by Elizabeth Clemants: restorative circles for those affected by childhood sexual abuse — survivors, people who caused harm, and those connected to both. A central lineage for this practice's circle work.
generationFIVE
Working to end the sexual abuse of children within five generations through transformative justice rather than incarceration.
Creative Interventions
Community-based interventions to interpersonal violence — including a comprehensive, free toolkit for everyday people responding to harm.
California
The Ahimsa Collective
Non-punitive, relationship-based responses to violence, including restorative dialogue and accompaniment work inside and outside prisons.
Kitchener–Waterloo, Ontario
Community Justice Initiatives
Pioneers of modern restorative justice practice, including decades of circles for sexual harm and reintegration.
California
Bay Area Transformative Justice Collective
Community responses to child sexual abuse; originators of the pod and pod-mapping framework used widely in safety planning.
Mia Mingus
SOIL: A Transformative Justice Project
Study and practice of transformative justice and everyday accountability, including the four parts of accountability.
Mariame Kaba, ed.
TransformHarm.org
A rich introductory hub on transformative justice, community accountability, restorative justice, and abolition.
Books that walk alongside
Judith Herman
Trauma and Recovery
The classic map of healing from trauma — the fields of the path are in conversation with her stages of safety, remembrance, and reconnection.
Danielle Sered
Until We Reckon
Violence, mass incarceration, and the road to repair — the strongest case for accountability without prisons.
Mariame Kaba
We Do This 'Til We Free Us
Abolitionist organizing and the practice of hope; essential grounding for community accountability.
adrienne maree brown
Emergent Strategy & Pleasure Activism
How change actually moves — and why joy belongs at the center of justice work.
Ejeris Dixon & Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, eds.
Beyond Survival
Stories and strategies from the transformative justice movement — what it looks like in practice.
Creative Interventions
The Creative Interventions Toolkit
A practical, free guide for everyday people intervening in interpersonal violence.
Howard Zehr
The Little Book of Restorative Justice
The concise foundation text of restorative justice principles and practice.
Mia Mingus
Leaving Evidence
Essays on disability justice, accountability, and how to give a genuine apology.
If you'd like help finding the right door
Part of this practice is warm referral — connecting you with the practitioners, organizations, and supports that fit your situation, whether or not that's me.
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