This spaces speaks to prisons as spaces of power, resistance and peace-building. Students in their fourth and postgraduate levels share their creative work & understanding of prisons with the world here.
Abolition Postcards
Student: Alex Theisen. Are prisons necessary, or is abolition the way forward? This is a debate that has been around for decades, and there is no agreement on the answer.
“The Never-Ending Sentence”: The Traumatic Aftermath of Incarceration for Women
Student: Alice Faymonville. Through these illustrations I seek to demonstrate the hardship prisoners, more specifically female felons, face once they are released from prison.
I Who Have Never Known Men: Feminist Resistance Meets Futuristic Biopolitics
Student: Kendall Chan. A video essay sharing the dystopian novel that tells the story of forty women imprisoned underground for crimes unknown to them.
The Politics of Self-Representation: The Power of Clothing in the Prison Context
Student: Grace Chalmers. Watercolor Series + Accompanying Essay.
Music and the Sounds of Resistance
Student: Patricia Cheney. In this project, I want to feature some of the incredible music created by prisoners and produced by allies, recognizing the importance of hearing the voices of the world’s most oppressed.
Sexual Violence in the US Prison System
Student: Deanna Reder. Sexual violence is an ongoing battle in US prisons. “Roughly 200,000 inmates are sexually abused each year in the US’s prison system”.
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