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Our mission is to promote epistemic equity and address the disparities in who is part of the creation of knowledge and narratives about justice-impacted and/or formerly incarcerated individuals, communities, and people. There is a lack of access to research produced by members of the justice-impacted community and their critique of social justice issues such as technology, mass incarceration, gender equity, racism, classism, ageism, etc. By illustrating and sharing the knowledge production of the justice-evolved, we aim to create an epistemic site of resistance and creation, and a space in which social justice, theory, praxis, scholarship, or research of the justice-evolved converge. In doing so, we break cycles of poverty and cultivate cycles of empowerment in our community.
OUR VISION
OUR VISION
We envision a virtual space that provides free and easy access to justice-evolved research, articles, and publications that are consolidated in one database. In providing this centralized resource, we hope to foster community, pride, self-esteem, and a sense of love and belonging among justice-impacted individuals in their respective educational institutions and communities. This site of resistance highlights the unique analytical view and epistemic assets of the justice-evolved, showcasing their intellectual prowess while at the same time refuting the myth about the justice-impacted being incapable of succeeding at elite institutions.
OUR INSPIRATION
OUR INSPIRATION
We are inspired by the struggles and successes of other marginalized communities (e.g. LGBTQ+, Black, women, people with disabilities, and others), who have created and defined their own ontologies and epistemologies. As Bell Hooks observed, academics from these communities who are "working to transform the curriculum so that it does not reflect biases or reinforce systems of domination are most often the individuals willing to take the risks that engaged pedagogy requires and to make their teaching practices a site of resistance.”* With this site, we intend to showcase academic material that challenges such systems of oppression.
James Baldwin's quote encapsulates the impact we hope this site will have beyond academia: “If for example, one managed to change the curriculum in all the schools so that Negroes learned more about themselves and their real contributions to this culture [and the world] you would be liberating not only Negroes, you would be liberating white people. And the reason is that if you are compelled to lie about one aspect of anybody’s history, then you must lie about it all”.**
*Hooks, Bell. (1994). Teaching To Transgress (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203700280
**James Baldwin. Delivered on October 16, 1963, as “The Negro Child-His Self-Image“, published in The Saturday Review, December 21, 1963, reprinted in The Price of the Ticket, Collected Non-Fiction 1948-1985, Saint Martins 1985. https://www.zinnedproject.org/materials/baldwin-talk-to-teachers
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