periferias 7 | jails unprisoned

Juliana Borges

For a democracy of abolition that contest hierarchies and strengthen community processes

| Brazil |

Kenarik Boujikian

Alternatives to the punitive culture of the Brazilian judiciary

| Brazil |

"In the name of a world without prisons" — interviews with activists from the Front of Decarceration from the state of Paraná

The importance of collective movements in the daily struggle for disengagement

| Brazil |

Interview with Mujeres de Frente collective

Andrea Aguirre Salas and Elizabeth Pino reflect upon the feminist antipenitentiary actions of the collective founded in Quito

| Ecuador |

Rememory

| USA |

The Fictions and Futures of Transformative Justice

A Conversation on Abolitionism, Science Fiction, and Alternative Justice Systems

| USA |

The Dictionary of Life

Collective writing and language in context of incarceration

| Argentina |

Who is afraid of a black boy who is free, educated and alive?

Body — the territory of minor offenders — and the proposals of the HONEPO — Black Men in Politics — collective

| Brazil |

Rojava's prisional systems

Restorative methods are the base for both civilian prisons and for ISIS prisioners

| Syria |

Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration

Prison art produced by incarcerated people, and their market relations and imposed institutional control

| USA |

“We refuse to die in prison”: Decarceration for the decolonization of Latin America

Recognizing the historical link between the penal colonies and the contemporary prison systems is a fundamental factor to disintegrate thought

| Brazil | France |

Theatre as a strategy for social change

Colonialism and apartheid operated with segregated prisons, in the country where multicultural and multilingual traditions created a national culture of theater. In prisons, they also highlight the public health crisis of HIV/AIDS

| USA | South Africa | Brazil |

Motherhood in prison

Experiences of previously incarcerated mothers in Valparaíso, Chile and how to work with reparative actions through the arts

| Chile |

Writing for constructing freedom

Feminist Writing Workshops for Women Deprived of Liberty in Morelos as a Tool of Denunciation, Resistance and Collective Visibility

| Mexico |

A visual experience of silence in Saint-Joseph

An abandoned island, once part of the French colonial penal system, is being reshaped by nature over the last decades

| French Guiana |

Exchanging sticks for wings

Or when heroes are the reason for the crimes that binds imprison us

| Brazil |

Racism and Prison

the selectivity of the penal system from a first-person perspective

| Brazil |

Can’t you see the street from the cabinet’s window?

Criminalization of travesties and the discourses of the Justice Tribunal in São Paulo

| Brazil |

The trans anti-carceral experience of the Cuerpos en Prisión, Mentes en Acción collective

Mutual aid and self-care are the central axis of 'Imprisoned Bodies, Active Minds'

| Colombia |

Ghassan Kanafani: The Palestinian author whose words cannot be assassinated

First biography in Hebrew about Kanafani echoes Palestinian resistance in a moment of escalating oppression

| Israel | Palestine |

Photography workshops in a Degase Socio-Educational Unit

| Brazil |