Resistance Behind Bars: The Struggles of Incarcerated Women

3:00-4:00pm
Marginalized Voices and Zines presented by Victoria Law, China Martens and people from the Decolonizing Our Diets project

How do those whose voices are often marginalized and silenced utilize zines to make their voices heard?

Victoria Law will share her experiences working with incarcerated women to create the zine Tenacious to both express themselves and expose their experiences to the outside world, challenging prevailing stereotypes of incarceration in the process. People from the Decolonizing Eats editorial collective will speak about the process of compiling a zine exploring the role of women of color in food production and activism. Decolonizing Eats explores the relationship of food to the intimate processes of colonialism, complicating existing ideas about women of color and food. China Martens will talk about how, even within radical communities, many parents find their experiences (still) not/under or misrepresented in the media around them and how she and others have used zines to network, define and express the (often alienated and isolated) experiences of motherhood.

Brooklyn Lyceum: 227 4th Avenue in Park Slope, Brooklyn

NYC ZineFest website: http://www.nyczinefest.org/index.html