Living Toward Justice

An illustrated exploration of how practitioners and scholars in the field of embodied social justice (ESJ) seek to incorporate justice in everyday life

Living Toward Justice: A Time Capsule documents three collaborative time capsules in 2022, when fifty-four practitioners of embodied social justice came together to respond to a series of prompts and activities centered around the question: “What does it look, feel, and sound like to live (toward) justice in your life?” Through photographs, video and audio recordings, and text-based reflections, they offer readers a vivid and immersive experience of embodying justice during a unique moment in history.

The diverse embodied social justice community engages in a vibrant dialogue of the ways in which practices such as yoga, ecstatic dance, somatic psychotherapy, meditation, martial arts, and more are often characterized by cultural appropriation, lack of diversity, and lack of social analysis.