unfriendly
29th September 2011, 01:51
As a survivor of a US jail, I absolutely adore this poster.
http://s3.amazonaws.com/data.tumblr.com/tumblr_ls8j1aVBar1qd5wd1o1_1280.jpg?AWSAccessKeyId =AKIAJ6IHWSU3BX3X7X3Q&Expires=1317343422&Signature=aDdB6Z7tQtdE6UqOy7%2BCbcgIr%2BE%3D
Note the lack of ~shocking~ imagery of police and prisons, note the lack of objectifying statistics.
Note the acknowledgement of the way jails exacerbate existing mental health issues, both in theory (explicitly stated on the poster) and in practice (in the choice of non-triggering imagery and presentation stated above).
This is pretty much the first prison abolition poster I've ever seen that didn't trigger the hell out of me. I haven't been able to touch prison abolition activism with a ten foot pole because of that, but I feel like if I were in Victoria instead of Rhode Island, I'd be able to work with this group and I thought I'd show you all because I really, really want to see more things like this.
http://s3.amazonaws.com/data.tumblr.com/tumblr_ls8j1aVBar1qd5wd1o1_1280.jpg?AWSAccessKeyId =AKIAJ6IHWSU3BX3X7X3Q&Expires=1317343422&Signature=aDdB6Z7tQtdE6UqOy7%2BCbcgIr%2BE%3D
Note the lack of ~shocking~ imagery of police and prisons, note the lack of objectifying statistics.
Note the acknowledgement of the way jails exacerbate existing mental health issues, both in theory (explicitly stated on the poster) and in practice (in the choice of non-triggering imagery and presentation stated above).
This is pretty much the first prison abolition poster I've ever seen that didn't trigger the hell out of me. I haven't been able to touch prison abolition activism with a ten foot pole because of that, but I feel like if I were in Victoria instead of Rhode Island, I'd be able to work with this group and I thought I'd show you all because I really, really want to see more things like this.