social justice
There are a handful of books I’ve read in my life that have had a profound impact on me. One of them was Jonathan Kozol’s Savage Inequalities, a book on the education system in the United States. If you haven’t read it, I would
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Hard labour, the concept of a prison sentence involving brutal work for no compensation, is often treated as a thing of the past. A relic of Soviet gulags, perhaps, or Southern chain gangs. People are sometimes surprised to learn that today, most
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Were you aware that there are tremendous disparities in mental health diagnoses? Well, there are. There’s a long history of using psychiatrisation as a weapon against ‘undesirables,’ as demonstrated in the use of diagnoses of
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How many of us have seen a movie or a television show with a prison visit scene? It’s kind of a staple whenever a character goes to prison. At some point, we will see family members or friends visiting in prison. They are ushered through a
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I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the politics of revulsion, because I think that they lie at the root of a lot of problems we experience as a society, especially problems related to inclusion and acceptance. The very idea that inclusion
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I know, I didn’t believe it either. What’s more, for the bulk of those five years, I have been writing something here every day. I know that anniversary posts are supposed to be lookback or lookforward posts, talking about the history of
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Let me tell you about the time that I was presenting as male, was arrested, and was jailed with male prisoners. Actually, let me not. Let me talk, instead, about the widespread and rather touching belief that law enforcement officers are ‘here
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Apropos of my discussion about historical contexts and the feminist movement, I’ve been thinking a lot more lately about history, particularly hidden and denied history. History shapes the way we think and act, even if we aren’t
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Almost one billion people in the world lack access to safe drinking water, and around 39% of the global population does not have access to ‘improved sanitation.’ By ‘safe drinking water,’ I mean ‘water which, under
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Last month at FWD, I discussed the imprisonment of mentally ill youth in the United States. The issue of mental illness and the prison system goes far beyond juvenile detainees, however. Mental illness is also seen in adult detainees, and it’s
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