31/01/2019
Survived and Punished
Survived and Punished
As part of the Scholar and Feminist Conference on Feb 8 and 9, S & P co-founder Mariame Kaba has curated a mini-exhibit based on the "No Selves to Defend" exhibition. Details below...
‘No Selves to Defend’ shares snippets of the stories of Joan Little, Cassandra Peten, Rosa Lee Ingram and her children Sammie Lee Ingram and Wallace Ingram, Dessie Woods, Yvonne Wanrow, and Inez Garcia–Black, Indigenous, and Latinx women who were criminalized for defending their lives against violence. It also includes a pamphlet from the defense of Recy Taylor, a survivor of r**e whose case preceded the others and built tremendous momentum for later struggles. This exhibit offers a space to examine the contested historical and contemporary understandings of self-defense, and traces a historical legacy of struggles that emerged to resist criminalization and demand freedom. The exhibit features original photographs, pamphlets, newspaper articles, and other ephemera from Kaba’s personal archival collections, as well as art from the original No Selves to Defend exhibit that took place at Art in These Times in Chicago in 2014. Attendees are invited to support a local survivor defense campaign, , which calls on Governor Cuomo to free all survivors of sexual and gender violence currently locked up in NY State prisons. For more on the campaign, visit freethemny.com.
http://bcrw.barnard.edu/event/scholar-and-feminist-conference-the-politics-and-ethics-of-archives/?fbclid=IwAR0SNn-DD3aimbLFvNtZhZ0qLmH76QA2rHvj6INWcyt2kJ4XXvDFTIKaCMM
