Our Mission
Our mission is to provide an alternative to prisons that builds safer communities by delivering feminist programming to people who have caused harm.
We envision a world free of prisons and patriarchy as the dominant culture. We build a world where harmful behavior is seen as a symptom of patriarchy to be transformed, in the community, by our program and others like it.
Our Values
Intersectional Feminism
We root ourselves in intersectional feminism, how multiple identities (gender, sexual orientation, race) compound to inform our lived experiences.
Centering People Directly Impacted by the Carceral System
We believe that the people who know best how to shape freedom and change are those directly impacted by the same systems of oppression [we’re working with].
Abolition of Punishment Systems
(Including Prison & Criminal Legal System)
We do not believe in the use of punishment as a means of control or behavior change; not only are these systems inhumane but they do not lead to transformation. All institutions and practices associated with the carceral system can be replaced by community, collective support towards accountability, and integrity.
Transformative Justice
Transformative justice [is] a liberatory approach to violence… [which] seeks safety and accountability without relying on alienation, punishment, or State or systemic violence, including incarceration or policing. We don’t believe in throwing people away. We don’t believe in punishment. We believe all behavior can be transformed. We believe people are inherently valuable.
Rooting ourselves in love and community
We believe love is the act of spiritually investing in others and ourselves.
Rooting in love and community
Non-hierarchical Forms of Relating & Co-learning
We believe that transformative experiences come from communal healing not by ‘learning’ from someone whose lived experiences do not reflect directly impacted people. Our model is predicated on our coach and facilitators relating to participants and transforming alongside each other. We believe the work of healing and decolonizing never ends.
Healing Justice
We believe that by healing the wounds and harms of patriarchy and transforming the mindsets and conditions that lead to them, we break intergenerational cycles of trauma.