Recently, our co-authored article ‘Transformative Justice, Reparations and Transatlantic Slavery’ was published in the April 2019 print issue of Social & Legal Studies. The article had, however, been complete for some time and first appeared online in late 2017. Here we provide some reflections on how we came to write the article, what the article does and – especially – what we have been doing since its publication online and how this relates the themes and research underpinning the article.