Resistance Behind Bars: The Struggles of Incarcerated Women

I'm thrilled to be part of the U.S. launch of Tings Chak’s Undocumented: The Architecture of Migrant Detention, a graphic novel that documents the banality and violence of Canada's immigration detention centers. We'll be discussing intersections of prison abolition and migrant justice and exploring counter-narratives that highlight resistance by incarcerated women and migrants

Undocumented explores the growing industry of immigration detention and questions the role of architectural design in such spaces.

The number of women who cycle through U.S. jails is increasing by approximately 1.6 percent each year, to 109,100 in 2014, while the number of women in prisons has risen nearly tenfold in the past 40 years, to 111,300 in 2013. Though the United States accounts for only 5 percent of the world’s women, it has 33 percent of the world’s women prisoners.

There is no current data on how many of those women are pregnant.

Join me, Barrie Cline, Dennise Redmoon Darkeem and Kameelah Janan Rasheed in the second of two panel discussions at ABC No Rio featuring artists that that engage the arts in ways that address social issues, providing them an opportunity to articulate their practice and pursuits with other artists and the community at large.

Part of Making Room: Cultural Production in Occupied Spaces. Funded in part by the NYC Dept of Cultural Affairs. Wed, October 14th, 7pm

Come celebrate the launch of Feminist Utopia.

Monday, October 12th, 7:00 pm
The Red Room

I'll be speaking at the “Women and Mass Incarceration: The U.S. Crisis of Women and Girls Behind Bars” on Tues, 9/22.

Other summit speakers include UCI Law Dean Erwin Chemerinsky, Hon. Pamela Alexander, UCI Law Professor Michele Goodwin, Sue Ellen Allen, Detective Jack Cole, Dr. George Woods Jr.

I've written a short listicle and two more in-depth articles on pregnancy and parenting in women's prisons to coincide with the release of Orange is the New Black.

If you want the in-a-nutshell version, check out my listicle on Bitchmedia:

Come catch me at the Women Action Media! conference in NYC. I'll be on two panels, so you have two opportunities to see me.

WAM Navigating Gender in Prison Reporting

Print Renaissance

How has the printed book found a home in the digital world? Do handmade books become more precious because much of our writing and reading is now done online? A panel of writers and publishers discusses the recent and unexpected print renaissance. Part of the PEN World Voices Festival

Saturday, May 9, 2015, 11:30am
Crosby Street Hotel Screening Room

From Käthe Kollwitz’s artwork addressing the tragedy of war in the early 20th century to the Art Worker’s Coalition pressuring NYC museums to implement economic and political reform in 1969, there has always been a space in the art world where artists have been a force in social change both among their peers and the world at large.

On April 9, 2015, a federal judge granted preliminary approval of the settlement of a class action regarding the videotaping of strip searches at the Western Massachusetts Regional Women’s Correctional Center, in Chicopee (the “WCC”). The plaintiffs’ lawyers will send notice of the settlement and a claim form to class members. The Court has scheduled a final hearing on the fairness of the settlement, to take place on September 10, 2015.