Law, Liberation, and Lived Experience

In this episode of Conscious Conversations, Mmabatho Montse speaks with legal practitioner and founder of Narratives for Justice, Mali Khantrece, to explore how law, when rooted in lived experience and historical consciousness, becomes a tool for liberation and healing. Mali shares her journey into law as an act of resistance, using narrative justice and death penalty mitigation to humanize those silenced by systemic violence. Together, they unpack how intergenerational trauma, racialized poverty, and the criminal justice system converge to erase life stories, and how reclaiming these narratives challenges the structures of erasure.
The conversation reflects on the role of education in transforming not just minds, but systems, and considers how personal lineage, ancestral memory, and metaphysical violence intersect in the pursuit of justice. Mali and Mmabatho interrogate the mythologies of democracy and capitalism, calling for pedagogies that center cultural re-memory, critical reflection, and collective care.

This episode affirms that justice work begins with storytelling, where reclaiming voice becomes an act of survival, resistance, and communal restoration.
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