An Evening of Discussion about Resistance & Solidarity with Activists in Women's Prisons
with
Vanessa Huang, poet, writer, community activist, contributor to The Revolution Starts at Home Sin Soracco, author of Low Bite and Edge City, ex-con Victoria Law, author of Resistance Behind Bars: The Struggles of Incarcerated Women Karen Shain, Policy Director of Legal Services for Prisoners with Children
Until our time together, please co-create an environment healthy and accessible for community members with environmental illness. We request you prepare in advance to come free of fragrances on hair, body, and clothing. (More information here: http://www.peggymunson.com/mcs/fragrancefree.html )
Thursday, May 5, 7 pm Green Arcade, San Francisco, CA Wheelchair accessible
Vanessa Huang is a poet, writer, and community organizer whose practice feeds resilience from the margins and draws on a history of collaboration with and teachings from the anti-prison, gender liberation, migrant justice, anti-violence, disability justice, and reproductive justice movements. Vanessaâs poetry manuscript quiet of chorus was named a finalist for Poets & Writersâ 2010 California Writers Exchange Award. A Macondo and Kundiman fellow, Vanessa lives in Oakland, California and also works as a consultant for social justice organizations.
Sin Soracco, author of Edge City, lives mostly in the Mission District of San Francisco and along the outer edges of madness on the Lower Russian River in Sonoma Country, California.
Victoria Law is a writer, photographer and mother. She is a co-founder of Books Through Bars--New York City, an organization that sends free radical literature and books to prisoners nationwide, and editor of the âzine Tenacious: Writings from Women in Prison. She is also the author of Resistance Behind Bars: The Struggles of Incarcerated Women (PM Press 2009).
Karen Shain is the Policy Director of Legal Services for Prisoners with Children. Karen has over 25 years of experience working with and for prisoners and their families and has also worked extensively in the womenâs and lesbian movement in the San Francisco Bay Area. A little known fact: Karen and her partner Jody are named plaintiffs in Californiaâs marriage equality lawsuit. Since 2007, she has been a mentor for the Women's Policy Institute providing guidance to the criminal justice teams.
see also:
The Revolution Starts at Home www.southendpress.org/2010/items/87941
Interview with Sin Soracco www.pmpress.org/content/article.php?story=SinSoracco
Legal Services for Prisoners with Children www.prisonerswithchildren.org/aboutus.htm
Women and Prison website www.womenandprison.org/contributors/view/karen_shain/
Resistance Behind Bars: The Struggles Of Incarcerated Women www.resistancebehindbars.org
related audio:
Women in Prison: Improve Their Lives, Not the System www.radio4all.net/index.php/program/46460
The Many Faces of Imprisonment: Laura Whitehorn, Victoria Law, Jeanne Theoharis, Ravi Ragbir, Marlon Peterson www.radio4all.net/index.php/program/46417
Resistance Behind Bars with Lynne Stewart, Ashanti Alston, Matt Meyer, and Victoria Law www.radio4all.net/index.php/program/46418
The Hidden 1970s: Prisoner Support in the 1970s www.radio4all.net/index.php/program/46380
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