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Resistance Behind Bars: The Struggles of Incarcerated Women

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In 1974, women imprisoned at New York’s maximum-security prison at Bedford Hills staged what is known as the August Rebellion. Protesting the brutal beating of a fellow prisoner, the women fought off guards, holding seven of them hostage, and took over sections of the prison.

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Books & Articles
Topic: 
Activism
Gender studies
Prisoner Support




Tenacious: Art and Writing from Women in Prison. An interview with Vikki Law from New York, United States

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Prisoner Support
Zine
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Tenacious zine started in 2003 after Vikki Law was approached as an outside publisher and co-editor by women incarcerated in Oregon; they needed a self-determined forum for female prisoners' voices after the mainstream media kept ignoring their proposals. Vikki wrote a piece called "Incarcerated Women Create Their Own Media" for the feminist magazine, Off Our Backs, detailing this background, and recently published a book entitled Resistance Behind Bars from her involvement in prisoner support and incarcerated women's struggles. An interview with Vikki on the role that zines play in movements for social change, and the importance of striving for liberation for all in freedom, not equality for some in injustice.

Off Our Back article, ""Incarcerated Women Create Their Own Media", http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3693/is_200701/ai_n19512053

Interviewee: 
Vikki Law
Interviewer: 
Red Chidgey & Elke Zobl