Resistance Behind Bars: The Struggles of Incarcerated Women

Thursday, 3/25, 7 pm
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Howell 104

Friday, 3/26, 3:30 to 5:30 pm
Warren Wilson College, Asheville, NC

AND

Friday, 3/26, 7 pm , 48 Commerce Street, Asheville, NC

I'm also going to be part of a panel discussion on prison abolition at the NC Rising conference at Chapel Hill on Sunday, 3/28, from 1:30 to 3:30 pm:

Prison Abolition in North Carolina

with Vikki Law (author of Resistance Behind Bars), a member of the Harm Free Zone organizing committee, a member of Ashville Queer Books to Prisoners project, and Chapel Hill's Prison Books Collective

This panel will explore a wide variety of challenges and opportunities facing efforts in NC to combat and defeat the prison industrial complex, including supporting political prisoners, encouraging & connecting with organizing on the inside, and empowering communities on the outside to resist the PIC as well as analyzing strategic weaknesses in the "justice" and prison systems in the state.

for more information, including (free!) pre-registration: http://www.ncrising.info/index.html

Durham residents!
I'll be doing something just for you on Monday, 3/29, at Duke University's Women's Center:

How does gender impact incarceration? With over 114,000 women in prison, why do we still think about men when we think about prison issues? And what can we do to both act in solidarity with those struggling inside while working towards a world outside where prisons are no longer necessary?

Victoria Law, author of Resistance Behind Bars and Tenacious (a zine of women prisoners' writings) will examine the particular challenges facing incarcerated women and discuss their past and present strategies of resistance. Alexis Pauline Gumbs, educator, scholar and member of the Durham Harm Free Zone Organizing Committee will talk about the connection between the Harm Free Zone Process happening here in Durham and, by facilitating interactive/writing exercises based on some of the writings in Tenacious, will encourage attendees to think about solidarity.

Monday, 3/29, 6 pm

Duke University Women's Center
107 Few Federation (Few or Few Fed),
across the rose garden from the Allen Building
map is here: http://www.studentaffairs.duke.edu/wc/contact-us