Ep. 117 | Incarceration

In this week’s episode, Kendra and Jaclyn discuss books around the theme of incarceration.

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Books Mentioned

• Black and Blue: A Memoir of Racism and Resilience by Veronica Gorrie

• From the Desk of Zoey Washington by Janae Marks

• Prison By Any Other Name: The Harmful Consequences of Popular Reforms by Maya Schenwar and Victoria Law

• Incarceration Nations: A Journey to Justice in Prisons Around the World by Baz Dreisinger

Further Reading

• Against the Loveless World by Susan Abulhawa

• After Story by Larissa Behrendt

• Angela Y. Davis body of work (including Freedom Is a Constant Struggle, Are Prisons Obsolete?) 

• The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander

• The Natural Way of Things by Charlotte Wood

• Blood in the Water by Heather Ann Thompson

• We Do This ‘Til We Free Us by Mariame Kaba

• The Pedagogy of Pathologization: Dis/abled Girls of Color in the School-prison Nexus by Subini Ancy Annamma

• Deaf People in the Criminal Justice System: Selected Topics on Advocacy, Incarceration, and Social Justice edited by Debra Guthmann, Gabriel I. Lomas, Damara Goff Paris, and Gabriel A. “Tony” Martin

• Disability Incarcerated: Imprisonment and Disability in the United States and Canada edited by L. Ben-Moshe, C. Chapman, and A. Carey

Further Resources

• SistersInside & Debbie Kilroy (@debkilroy) #FreeHer #NothingAboutUsWithoutUs

• Incarceration Nation (@inc_nation_au) documentary airs 29 August 2021 on NITV

• Article on Incarceration Nation

• The Dhadjowa Foundation 

• 13th (Netflix)

• #RaiseTheAge 

• Amy McQuire

• National Prison Book Program, run by the Australian Prison Foundation (https://alc.org.au) 

  • https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/06/17/australia-is-outraged-over-george-floyd-what-about-black-lives-our-shores/ 

• Prison by Any Other Name interview with authors

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