Kage Johnson

Kage Johnson (they/them) is a queer & nonbinary restorative & transformative justice practitioner, writer, abolitionist visionary, and freak for life. Kage writes their heart out and opens up yours on their substack: blue sky moon.

Drawn toward transformation and cycles of life, death, and rebirth– Kage is also a sexual violence survivor, a trained sexual assault survivor advocate, a trained death doula, an experienced landscape gardener. They invest a lot of their time as a co-founding community member of Healing First!, a transformative justice collective led by survivors who advocate for RJ/TJ as an accessible option for everyone, the Maine chapter representative of the growing global coalition, Survivors For Justice Reform, and a steering committee member of the Maine Restorative Justice Coalition (MERJ).

Kage orients their life around asking themself these two questions daily: "How do we respond to harm without causing more harm?" and "Am I leading from a place of love or fear?" Kage comes from a family of Irish settlers that has lived in the Dawnland (unceded homelands of the Wabanaki Nations) for generations. Kage loves coffee, plants, and the salty ocean.