Abstract

In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, currently and formerly incarcerated people in the state of Michigan in the United States are partnering with writers and artists in the free world to make themselves more visible in this moment of crisis. This article looks at three case studies (the MYLIFEMATTERSTOO newsletter, the Living on Loss of Privileges web series, and correspondence programming at the Prison Creative Arts Project) in which people in prison and those who have been recently released are using their creativity and networks of supporters to assert their voices and rights. In doing so, they insist that they are citizens actively participating in free world communities.

Highlights

  • Em meio à pandemia de COVID-19, pessoas atualmente e anteriormente encarceradas no estado de Michigan, nos Estados Unidos, estão fazendo parceria com escritores e artistas do mundo livre para se tornarem mais visíveis neste momento de crise

  • Este artigo analisa três estudos de caso (o boletim MYLIFEMATTERSTOO, a série da web Living on Loss of Privileges e a programação por correspondência no Prison Creative Arts Project) em que pessoas na prisão e aquelas que foram recentemente libertadas estão usando sua criatividade e redes apoiantes para fazerem valer as suas vozes e direitos

  • Este artículo analiza tres estudios de caso en los que las personas encarceladas y las que han sido liberadas recientemente están utilizando su creatividad y sus redes de simpatizantes para hacer valer sus voces y derechos

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Efrén Paredes

Para citar este artigo: LUCAS, Ashley; FRIEDMAN, Alexandra; PAREDES, Efrén. Prisons and Activism in the Pandemic: How Survivors of Incarceration Shift What Civic Participation Means

Ashley Lucas Alexandra Friedman Efrén Paredes
Coalition Building and Social Change
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