Relationships are artworks to me, as opposed to contracts with the status-quo.

This perspective shift helps us untangle what is alive, what is appropriate to the present situation, from what is either obsolete, or oppressive.

Transformative justice is my values framework: when harm has been done, it seeks to include everyone involved to understand individual, collective, and systemic conditions that led to it. The intent is to both address the damage, and to change these conditions: to improve how we care for each other going forward.

Dominant justice systems and dominant cultural narratives reinforce each other.

Shifting long installed dynamics takes extra solid teamwork. It takes intentional practice.

Believing that this quality of relationships, of teamwork, is actually possible, is key.

Art implies creating, step by step, in response to the uniqueness of each situation, and in connection with the whole.

It implies accepting that you won’t fully understand what’s happening until it’s done. That the process has ups and downs, that both have value, and that if you let them, people will surprise you.