IN OUR OWN HANDS: tools for talking abolition & transformative justice with little ones
About this Toolkit
This free guide was developed by artist, organizer, and social justice educator Rania El Mugammar. This document provides tools for starting (and continuing) conversations about policing, prisons and transformative justice in the lives of children, families and the broader community. This resource includes prompts, questions, and exercises to help challenge carceral thinking, copaganda, and surveillance to develop a more robust and collective sense of justice.
This guide is not for sale, and is intended for not-for-profit use by parents, caregivers, guardians, educators, organizers, collectives, aunts, uncles, grandparents, siblings, and anyone involved in the care and wellbeing of children.
The guide can be used in whole or in part to facilitate group conversations, workshops, and other collective learning experiences to improve all our futures. This toolkit is by no means comprehensive or inclusive of all strategies, knowledge, and tools for cultivating an abolitionist politic and a commitment to transformative justice. It is, however, situated in the context of generations of organizing and decades of scholarship, which has contributed to the knowledge in this guide and continues to offer us many more lessons not contained within its pages.
It is important to engage in intentional conversations about punishment, policing, and incarceration, as well as imagining what it takes to build meaningful safety within our communities. Failing to do so indoctrinates children in our communities with narratives and systems that uphold policing and prisons as natural, good, and inevitable: which, if left unchallenged, can limit our imagination and our capacity to transform justice.
Building safer communities is in our own hands.
This free guide was developed by artist, organizer, and social justice educator Rania El Mugammar. This document provides tools for starting (and continuing) conversations about policing, prisons and transformative justice in the lives of children, families and the broader community. This resource includes prompts, questions, and exercises to help challenge carceral thinking, copaganda, and surveillance to develop a more robust and collective sense of justice.
This guide is not for sale, and is intended for not-for-profit use by parents, caregivers, guardians, educators, organizers, collectives, aunts, uncles, grandparents, siblings, and anyone involved in the care and wellbeing of children.
The guide can be used in whole or in part to facilitate group conversations, workshops, and other collective learning experiences to improve all our futures. This toolkit is by no means comprehensive or inclusive of all strategies, knowledge, and tools for cultivating an abolitionist politic and a commitment to transformative justice. It is, however, situated in the context of generations of organizing and decades of scholarship, which has contributed to the knowledge in this guide and continues to offer us many more lessons not contained within its pages.
It is important to engage in intentional conversations about punishment, policing, and incarceration, as well as imagining what it takes to build meaningful safety within our communities. Failing to do so indoctrinates children in our communities with narratives and systems that uphold policing and prisons as natural, good, and inevitable: which, if left unchallenged, can limit our imagination and our capacity to transform justice.
Building safer communities is in our own hands.