The authors share their experience developing and utilizing a transformative justice performance to respond to campus-based sexual violence at Louisiana State University and beyond. This essay describes the pedagogy, experiences, and insights gained from implementing this effort, in partnership with a local jazz museum. They discuss the limits and the ongoing motivations for working both within and beyond university contexts. This contribution is part of the Abolitionist Pedagogies “distributed special issue” series.

Keywords:
abolitionist, performance, praxis, refusal, sexual violence, community engagement, pedagogy, relationality
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