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
- Interactive access to courageous conversations, guided by currently incarcerated PJ artists and system-impacted facilitators.
- Deeper understanding of artistic choices made in challenging carceral settings and the power of visual and multimodal artifacts as tools for healing
- Gender-sensitive perspective on the deeply racist, sexist, and punitive U.S. carceral system designed to dehumanize and traumatize rather than rehab
Speakers
- Reka Barton, Professor, University of San Diego
Organizer
Reka Barton, Professor, University of Maryland, College Park
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