Living our values
Healing justice
Generational and present-day trauma from experiences with state and other forms of violence deeply impacts those working in movements for social justice. Healing justice is a response to this trauma, lifting up practices that support wellness and safety to our sustain our community and movements.
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Language justice
Language justice is a concept that emphasizes the right of all individuals to communicate in their preferred language and to have their language and cultural identities respected and valued. In the context of activism and translation/interpreting, language justice seeks to ensure that marginalized communities, including LGBTQ+ communities, have access to information and resources in their preferred languages and that their voices are heard and valued in multilingual spaces. This guide discusses how we can use language to affirm and celebrate each other’s identities and promote language justice, while actively countering oppression that is sometimes embedded in language. Language is constantly evolving, so these are meant to serve as starting points for co-creation and not rules.
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Principles of participation
Nurturing an environment where each person feels seen and heard, with an acknowledgment of their experience, contributes to a work flow that welcomes shared learning, intersectional conversations, mutual support, and creative collaboration.
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Transfeminist tech
Transfeminist politics make a specific accent on the centrality of community, intentionality, humility and active listening; an embodied politics of care that really articulates what it means when technology is enacted by people of different and discriminated genders, place, age, caste or class. They are not an “addon” but a positionality that helps and facilitates the use and the choice of technology in line with the actual needs, conditions and desire of the people.
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Community centered participation
Resources to be uploaded in April 2025 by APC.