Please note this monthās Motherhood/Caretaker circle is cancelled but will be back on the third Saturday of February!
Decolonization Corner
Restorative Justice in Practice
āØ Why This Belongs in Restorative Justice Work
At Restorative Houston, we understand restorative justice as a decolonial practice. Before courts, prisons, and punishment-based systems, many Indigenous communities addressed harm through relationship, accountability, repair, and collective care.
Colonization disrupted these systems by replacing community-based responses to harm with systems rooted in control, punishment, and separation.
Decolonization, in this sense, is about remembering and restoring ways of being that center healing over harm, relationship over domination, and accountability over punishment.
Decolonization Corner exists to help us unlearn the dominant worldview that shaped modern justice systems and to reconnect with the kinship-based values that restorative justice is grounded in.
Each edition of Decolonization Corner invites readers to explore how decolonial thinking supports restorative justiceāboth internally and collectively.
āš½ Restorative Reflection
Journal prompts that link decolonization + justice
How has the dominant worldview shaped my ideas about justice, accountability, or punishment?
When harm happens, what do I believe people deserveāand where did that belief come from?
What would accountability look like if it were rooted in care and relationship instead of fear?
š± Restorative Action
Practicing decolonization through everyday justice
Practice accountability this week without punishmentāstart with curiosity and repair.
Notice where you default to āfixingā instead of listening when harm or conflict arises.
Ask, āWhat does this person need to repair harm?ā instead of āWhat should happen to them?ā
š Learning & Resources
Deepening our restorative and decolonial understanding
š Restoring the Kinship Worldview ā Four Arrows & Darcia Narvaez
š Braiding Sweetgrass ā Robin Wall Kimmerer
š§ Podcast: All My Relations
š Article: āDecolonization Is Not a Metaphorā ā Eve Tuck & K. Wayne Yang
