Publications, Media & Collaborations

Popaganda Podcast

Do you love reality television, true crime, memes, TikTok and all other forms of pop culture? Are you also interested in communal care outside of harmful state systems? Do you struggle to reconcile the two?

Join Tashmica Torok and Shannon Perez-Darby on Popaganda, as we dive deep into our love of transformative justice, pop culture and where the two meet.

Come for the Pop Culture, Stay for the Abolition

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Beyond the Bars 2023 Seeding Justice

Addressing Conflict and Harm in Social Movements Plenary

Reports Are Not Supports: Mandatory Reporting Harm Reduction

Exploring why mandatory reporting harm reduction is essential to re-examining the root causes of and preventing child sexual abuse. In collaboration with Just Beginnings Collaborative and the Mandatory Reporting is Not Neutral Project.

To access a version of the recording with Zoom captioning & full ASL interpretation, visit: tinyurl.com/MRNNCaptionASL

Image by Laura Chow Reeve of Radical Roadmaps

Divest! Invest?

A panel discussion exploring what happens after we defund the police. Facilitated by Shannon Perez-Darby panelists Angélica Cházaro, Dean Spade, Kiyomi Fujikawa, and John Page utilize Seattle-based lessons to explore how we can transform criminal legal system divestment into community-owned investments.

Self-Accountability and Movement Building

This workshop happened in the September of 2020, as part of the Abolitionist Toolbox series and in collaboration with Project Nia .

Accountability is a human skill, not something that happens to bad people. How many times have movements been pulled apart not because of external forces but because of internal conflict and strife? So often we ask how others can be accountable without first looking internally and asking, "How have I been accountable?" Join us to explore the role self-accountability plays in building strong, sustainable movements. We'll discuss how self-accountability—that is accountability with and for ourselves—is essential in building accountable communities and the movements to sustain them.

Graphic Notes provided by Laura Chow Reeve (aka Radical Roadmaps)

Accountable Communities Series

In collaboration with Mariame Kaba, Kiyomi Fujikawa and the Barnard Center for Research on Women.

Building Accountable Communities // Part 1 Accountability is a familiar buzz-word in contemporary social movements, but what does it mean? How do we work toward it? In this series of four short videos, anti-violence activists Kiyomi Fujikawa and Shannon Perez-Darby ask and explore: What does it look like to be accountable to survivors without exiling or disposing those who do harm? On October 26, 2018, Kiyomi and Shannon will join us for an online discussion exploring models of building accountable communities. This conversation will be framed by audience questions and moderated by Mariame Kaba. Learn more about the event, join the conversation, and watch the full series of videos at http://bcrw.barnard.edu/event/building-accountable-communities/ Conversation created by Kiyomi Fujikawa and Shannon Perez-Darby. Filmed by Christina Antonakos-Wallace. Videos edited by Dean Spade and Hope Dector. Part of a series of workshops and videos on community accountability and transformative justice; conceived by Mariame Kaba, Just Practice Collaborative, and Project NIA. Additional Resources: The NorthWest Network of Bi, Trans, Lesbian and Gay Survivors of Abuse http://nwnetwork.org Shannon Perez-Darby: “The Secret Joy of Self Accountability” Connie Burk: “Think. Re-Think: Accountable Communities” From: The Revolution Starts at Home: Confronting Intimate Partner Violence in Activist Communities (AK PRESS, eds. Chen, Dulani and Piepzna-Samarasinha) Ending Child Sexual Abuse: A Transformative Justice Handbook http://generationfive.org/the-issue/transformative-justice/ Creative Interventions Toolkit http://creative-interventions.org Just Practice http://shirahassan.com/about-just-practice Bay Area Transformative Justice Collective http://batjc.wordpress.com

Building Accountable Communities // Part 2 Accountability is a familiar buzz-word in contemporary social movements, but what does it mean? How do we work toward it? In this series of four short videos, anti-violence activists Kiyomi Fujikawa and Shannon Perez-Darby ask and explore: What does it look like to be accountable to survivors without exiling or disposing those who do harm? On October 26, 2018, Kiyomi and Shannon will join us for an online discussion exploring models of building accountable communities. This conversation will be framed by audience questions and moderated by Mariame Kaba. Learn more about the event, join the conversation, and watch the full series of videos on on bcrw.barnard.edu. Conversation created by Kiyomi Fujikawa and Shannon Perez-Darby. Filmed by Christina Antonakos-Wallace. Videos edited by Dean Spade and Hope Dector. Part of a series of workshops and videos on community accountability and transformative justice; conceived by Mariame Kaba, Just Practice Collaborative, and Project NIA. Additional Resources: The NorthWest Network of Bi, Trans, Lesbian and Gay Survivors of Abuse http://nwnetwork.org Shannon Perez-Darby: “The Secret Joy of Self Accountability” Connie Burk: “Think. Re-Think: Accountable Communities” From: The Revolution Starts at Home: Confronting Intimate Partner Violence in Activist Communities (AK PRESS, eds. Chen, Dulani and Piepzna-Samarasinha) Ending Child Sexual Abuse: A Transformative Justice Handbook http://generationfive.org/the-issue/transformative-justice/ Creative Interventions Toolkit http://creative-interventions.org Just Practice http://shirahassan.com/about-just-practice Bay Area Transformative Justice Collective http://batjc.wordpress.com

Building Accountable Communities // Part 3 Accountability is a familiar buzz-word in contemporary social movements, but what does it mean? How do we work toward it? In this series of four short videos, anti-violence activists Kiyomi Fujikawa and Shannon Perez-Darby ask and explore: What does it look like to be accountable to survivors without exiling or disposing those who do harm? On October 26, 2018, Kiyomi and Shannon will join us for an online discussion exploring models of building accountable communities. This conversation will be framed by audience questions and moderated by Mariame Kaba. Learn more about the event, join the conversation, and watch the full series of videos at http://bcrw.barnard.edu/event/building-accountable-communities/ Conversation created by Kiyomi Fujikawa and Shannon Perez-Darby. Filmed by Christina Antonakos-Wallace. Videos edited by Dean Spade and Hope Dector. Part of a series of workshops and videos on community accountability and transformative justice; conceived by Mariame Kaba, Just Practice Collaborative, and Project NIA. Additional Resources: The NorthWest Network of Bi, Trans, Lesbian and Gay Survivors of Abuse http://nwnetwork.org Shannon Perez-Darby: “The Secret Joy of Self Accountability” Connie Burk: “Think. Re-Think: Accountable Communities” From: The Revolution Starts at Home: Confronting Intimate Partner Violence in Activist Communities (AK PRESS, eds. Chen, Dulani and Piepzna-Samarasinha) Ending Child Sexual Abuse: A Transformative Justice Handbook http://generationfive.org/the-issue/transformative-justice/ Creative Interventions Toolkit http://creative-interventions.org Just Practice http://shirahassan.com/about-just-practice Bay Area Transformative Justice Collective http://batjc.wordpress.com

Building Accountable Communities // Part 4 Accountability is a familiar buzz-word in contemporary social movements, but what does it mean? How do we work toward it? In this series of four short videos, anti-violence activists Kiyomi Fujikawa and Shannon Perez-Darby ask and explore: What does it look like to be accountable to survivors without exiling or disposing those who do harm? On October 26, 2018, Kiyomi and Shannon will join us for an online discussion exploring models of building accountable communities. This conversation will be framed by audience questions and moderated by Mariame Kaba. Learn more about the event, join the conversation, and watch the full series of videos at http://bcrw.barnard.edu/event/building-accountable-communities/ Conversation created by Kiyomi Fujikawa and Shannon Perez-Darby. Filmed by Christina Antonakos-Wallace. Videos edited by Dean Spade and Hope Dector. Part of a series of workshops and videos on community accountability and transformative justice; conceived by Mariame Kaba, Just Practice Collaborative, and Project NIA. Additional Resources: The NorthWest Network of Bi, Trans, Lesbian and Gay Survivors of Abuse http://nwnetwork.org Shannon Perez-Darby: “The Secret Joy of Self Accountability” Connie Burk: “Think. Re-Think: Accountable Communities” From: The Revolution Starts at Home: Confronting Intimate Partner Violence in Activist Communities (AK PRESS, eds. Chen, Dulani and Piepzna-Samarasinha) Ending Child Sexual Abuse: A Transformative Justice Handbook http://generationfive.org/the-issue/transformative-justice/ Creative Interventions Toolkit http://creative-interventions.org Just Practice http://shirahassan.com/about-just-practice Bay Area Transformative Justice Collective http://batjc.wordpress.com

Publications

Shannon Perez-Darby is the author of a number of articles centering domestic violence, accountability and queer and trans communities. See below for a list of publications.

How to End Family Policing: From Outrage to Action

The Revolution Starts at Home

Sex Trafficking Prosecutions Won’t Stop the Next Epstein. Here’s What Will.

Friendship as Social Justice Activism

Learning Good Consent

Trans-Kin

Abolition is Survivor-Centered Justice

Podcasts

Are Our Movements Cults?

In this episode, Jaime Grant interviews transformative justice activist Shannon Perez-Darby about cults. Together we ponder the cult-like aspects of queer and feminist movement organizations – litmus testing for loyalty; silences in the face of abusive practices; and working to the point of exhaustion, among them. We discuss both the horrors of the NXIVM cult and how abusers undermine our realities and steal our lives. We go back over the activist classic "The Revolution Starts at Home," to which Shannon contributed with her ground-breaking article "The Secret Joy of Accountability." We explore the all-important question: How do we keep our commitments to our movements, while keeping our commitments to our individual and collective well-being? Join us!