TJ Parenting is a new podcast where we explore transformative justice as a revolutionary parenting strategy. Each short episode of TJ Parenting offers a 15-minute audio excerpt from full interviews featured in Galaxy Guide, a digital platform that explores how the political framework of Transformative Justice has informed the values and practices of parenting people.
Join Host Tashmica Torok and other TJ Parenting Explorers as they cultivate the TJ parenting strategies of today that will launch the liberated futures we envision for our children tomorrow.
Before you go, be sure to check out our first Galaxy Guide Pack, Exploring Bodily Autonomy and Healthy Sexuality for Children, a 3-part series featuring a conversation with TJPN member Kristianna Smith.
You can listen and subscribe to TJ Parenting everywhere you get your podcasts. To listen to full interviews and get a look at our star maps full of curated and created resources, subscribe to Galaxy Guide: a TJ Parenting Portal by visiting TJParenting.substack.com
Follow TJ Parenting on Instagram for more insights, funny reels, and prompts designed to build our collective imagination for transformative justice parenting strategies.
Subscribers get full access to Exploring Bodily Autonomy and Healthy Sexuality for Children, a 3-part series featuring an interview with TJPN member Kristianna Smith.
[Image description: Kristianna, a Queer Black Mama with an Afro undercut standing in a lush garden wearing a colorful spaghetti strap sundress with a cutout over their stomach. They are holding out their skirt with an outstretched arm and smiling in the sun.]
Kristianna Smith is a liberation cultural worker, Scifi/Fantasy nerd and Queer Abolitionist Black Mama intent on bringing the best of our collective imagination to life.
They are in the habit of wondering and wandering. Most days you’ll find them wandering through their garden (regardless of season), listening to the lessons it offers and wondering, “What if I tried...”
A cultivator of many things, their most recent project is Seed Packets for Liberated Practice: Harvesting Chaos Collection, a written artwork that seeks to affirm and encourage folks as they seek to align their values with their day to day actions.
Kristianna uses their social media platforms to explore what it means to embody pleasure as a Black Queer Parent asking, "How might I bring what I dream into being?"
In their whole, Kristianna practices generative conflict, deep joy, and radical dreaming.
Subscribe now for full access to this and all future Galaxy Guide Packs and Star Maps!
To learn more about Kristianna, visit:
Episode on Dancing on Desks: Raising An Ancestor (parenting as freedomwork)
CT Public Family Interview about Kristianna & Family's Pick-What-You-Need Garden
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