SXSW EDU 2025

Voices on the Inside: A Multimodal Pop-Up

Description:

Poetic Justice intentionally works in women’s incarceration to provide data driven, trauma informed, gender sensitive arts programming. Voices on the Inside, a multimodal exhibit, centers their humanity through audio, photography, poetry, and digital art. Since 2010, there’s been a 700% increase in women’s incarceration. 190,000 women are incarcerated today. Generations- mothers, sisters, daughters, caretakers- removed from our communities. VOTI is rooted in an urgent need for collaborative solutions to amending punitive approaches to incarceration and increasing healing and harm reduction.


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Takeaways

  1. Interactive access to courageous conversations, guided by currently incarcerated PJ artists and system-impacted facilitators.
  2. Deeper understanding of artistic choices made in challenging carceral settings and the power of visual and multimodal artifacts as tools for healing
  3. Gender-sensitive perspective on the deeply racist, sexist, and punitive U.S. carceral system designed to dehumanize and traumatize rather than rehab

Speakers


Organizer

Reka Barton, Professor, University of Maryland, College Park


Meta Information:

  • Tags: arts integration, storytelling
  • Event: EDU
  • Format: Performance
  • Track: Arts & Storytelling
  • Session Focus Area Convergence
  • Level: Basic Understanding


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