Welcome to bluelight academy of the liberatory arts Transformative Justice Toolkit! We are so excited to be in community with you as you embark on this self guided journey. The information in this module is shared to help orient you to how bluelight courses work and what you can expect from the class.

A few logistical notes:

Content will be posted automatically each week after you registered. Please keep in mind that each week you are invited to engage with numerous thought provoking resources. The content is designed to be more than you can realistically engage with in one week - this is intentional! As you will see in the following sections, one of our core values and community agreements is to accept incompletion, which many of us find extremely difficult. As a result we decided to design a course that helps us all practice this acceptance of incompletion intrinsically in the way it is structured. While it is unlikely that you will be able to complete all the content during the 8 weeks, we ask you to reflect on the choice and agency this invites you to center as you follow your intuition and sense of desire in choosing which resources you want to explore during the 8 week period - we are sure you will have lots to think about and share with people in your life or throughout the rest of the time you have access to the content. We are inviting you to commit to engaging one question or resource each week during the first 8 weeks that you have access to the content, knowing that you have lifetime access to this toolkit so you can return and dig deeper at any time!

We find that many learning spaces become a bubble that might not translate into your life. We designed this course to have porous walls - asking you to talk about what you are learning with people who are already in your life because we find that is just as important if not more important than discussing it with us. In the same vein, we don't want the 8 week live course to be the entirety of your engagement with this content, but rather the beginning! We do not want bluelight to be the only container or community in which you can explore these topics or these resources so even if you likely do not complete the content during the 8 weeks, this gives you so much to continue diving into as a strong transition into you continuing in personal or community learning beyond this course.

Closing Reflections

We want to give you a heads up that at the end of the 8 weeks you will be invited to share an optional closing reflection: this can be written, audio, video, multimedia, an art piece you made, a commitment you are making to yourself or your community, or a seed you have planted literally or metaphorically (we love pics of your plants!) Examples of alumni reflections will be woven in throughout the course. There will be more instructions at the end of the term, but you can start thinking about what you might want to make throughout the term.