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Prison Culture » “No Selves to Defend” Exhibit & Marissa Alexander…
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How the PIC Structures Our World…. What is the PIC? 8220;No Selves to Defend” Exhibit & Marissa Alexander…. I’ve been incredibly busy and too tired to post anything here for a few days. Yesterday came the news that Marissa Alexander was denied. A “stand your ground” hearing. She will be retried in December. I am not surprised (after all as I’ve maintained, black women have no selves to defend). Still I am disappointed for her and her family. Exhibition at Art in these Times. There are many interactive op...
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Prison Culture » “The Outrage in North Carolina:” The Savage Brutalization of Phillis
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How the PIC Structures Our World…. What is the PIC? 8220;The Outrage in North Carolina:” The Savage Brutalization of Phillis. When I was creating the No Selves to Defend exhibition. Last year, I knew that it would have two anchors: the stories of Celia. And of Marissa Alexander. As I began to conceptualize a new exhibition about Black women and state violence (with several friends), I remembered the story of Phillis, a newly emancipated young Black woman. I knew that she would be an anchor of ‘. Phillis&...
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Prison Culture » #SayingHerName in Chicago
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How the PIC Structures Our World…. What is the PIC? Yesterday on Facebook, I read a series of posts by a young Black woman. She was lamenting the fact that Black men are too often silent and sometimes hostile about addressing violence against Black women. She was also dismayed at some of the women who insist that raising the issue of violence against Black women is ‘divisive.’ At one point, she wrote in exasperation: “. You would think as a black woman you’d be on your own side. I was in Cleveland this w...
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Prison Culture » Image of the Day…
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How the PIC Structures Our World…. What is the PIC? Image of the Day…. Photo from the Manifest Justice exhibition. Details about Manifest Justice here. If you would like to contact me, e-mail jjinjustice1@gmail.com. The big secret in life is that there is no big secret. Whatever your goal, you can get there if you're willing to work. Plugin by Andrew Olson. An Update on Life and Blogging…. Instead of Jail…Dispatches From the Inside #3. Instead of Jail…Dispatches From the Inside #2. Beyond Walls and Cages.
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Prison Culture » Blood At The Root Opens on August 14
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How the PIC Structures Our World…. What is the PIC? Blood At The Root Opens on August 14. I wish that I had time to regularly post here. This year has been one of the busiest I’ve experienced in some time. I have been running my organization, supporting several others, organizing campaigns, teaching, and developing new programming. Regular blogging has become a casualty. Blood at the Root. Opens next Friday August 14. You can RSVP HERE. For the reception. The exhibition will run through October. Californ...
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Prison Culture » Essential Reading
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How the PIC Structures Our World…. What is the PIC? I got an e-mail in September from a young college student named Maggie who asked me to share a list of the essential readings for someone who is trying to better understand the prison industrial complex and how it works. Below I have now included a list of useful articles/essays about mass incarceration. Alexander, Michelle (2010). The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness. Davis, Angela (2003). Are Prisons Obsolete? There are a ...
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Prison Culture » About
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How the PIC Structures Our World…. What is the PIC? Nicolas Lampert - Just Seeds Portfolio Project. Prison Culture is an attempt to document how the current prison industrial complex operates and to underscore the ways that it structures American society. And the prison industrial complex (PIC). I rely on a definition of the Prison Industrial Complex (PIC) developed by. Communities Against Rape and Abuse. See also: criminalization, street-based economies, quality of life policing”. Nothing can stop the m...
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Prison Culture » ‘My Cracks Are Now Gaping Wounds…’
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How the PIC Structures Our World…. What is the PIC? 8216;My Cracks Are Now Gaping Wounds…’. This afternoon, I facilitated a welcome circle for a young man recently released from prison. Due to confidentiality, I can’t speak about his specific experiences. I did get permission from him to share one sentence from the circle:. 8220;My cracks are now gaping wounds and the bleeding is invisible.”. 8220;My cracks are now gaping wounds and the bleeding is invisible.”. The parameters of the mass criminalization ...
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Prison Culture » video
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How the PIC Structures Our World…. What is the PIC? Marissa Alexander: One year later. I don’t have time to blog anymore. I’m working all of the time and my life is in transition. I miss the daily practice of blogging. I hope to get back to it in a few weeks. Regular readers of this blog know that I spent many months working to help #FreeMarissa as part of the Chicago Alliance to Free Marissa Alexander. And I produced a short film that we released on Wednesday afternoon. Watch it below. Students from the...
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How the PIC Structures Our World…. What is the PIC? An Update on Life and Blogging…. I had big plans to get back to regular blogging in 2016. Unfortunately life intervened. I am happy to say that I’ve moved back to my hometown of New York City after over 20 years of living in Chicago. This means many things. One is that once I am more settled, I’ll be able to return to more regular blogging. I am very excited about that because I miss writing regularly. Peace to you all. As the National Week of Action Ag...
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