april | 2023

periferias 7 | jails unprisoned

Iminência, Lucas Finonho (2022)

Editorial

Jails unprisoned

Peripheries celebrates five years and seven published editions

Interviews

Juliana Borges

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

by Mario René Rodríguez Torres and Cristiane Checchia

| Brazil |

Kenarik Boujikian

Alternatives to the punitive culture of the Brazilian judiciary

Cristiane Checchia

| 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

by Layra Rodrigues and Jhey Rodrigues

| 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

by Mario René Rodríguez Torres and Anderson Alves dos Santos

| Ecuador |

literature

Rememory

story by Walidah Imarisha

| USA |

The Fictions and Futures of Transformative Justice

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

Walidah Imarisha |Alexis Gumbs | Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha | adrienne maree brown | Mia Mingus

| USA |

Articles

The Dictionary of Life

Collective writing and language in context of incarceration

Carlos Ríos

| 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

Osmar Paulino

| Brazil |

Rojava's prisional systems

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

Abir Khaled

| Syria |

Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration

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

Nicole Fleetwood

| 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

Dirceu Franco Ferreira | Samuel Tracol

| 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

Ashley Lucas | Vicente Concílio

| USA | South Africa | Brazil |

Narratives

Motherhood in prison

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

Vania Gallardo López | Eva Lineros Vega

| Chile |

Writing for constructing freedom

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

Marcia Trejo and Lucia Espinoza

| 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

Glória Alhinho

| French Guiana |

Exchanging sticks for wings

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

Murilo Gaulês | Cia dxs Terroristas

| Brazil |

Racism and Prison

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

Amabílio Gomes Filho

| 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

Victor Siqueira Serra

| 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'

Laura Katalina Zamora | Abay Alejandro Hérnández | Jennifer Suárez | Katalina Ángel | Estefanía Méndez

| Colombia |

Review

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

Hagai El-Ad

| Israel | Palestine |

photography

Photography workshops in a Degase Socio-Educational Unit

Bira Carvalho e Davi Marcos

| Brazil |

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