

It gets its name from a musical instrument which much like an accordion has bellows that expand to produce its sound. Get Talk Poverty In Your InboxĬoncertina razor wire is a form of coiled barbed wire, first used in World War I. And this time, the wire was placed all the way to ground level. Last week, more rows of wire were suddenly added to the Arizona side of the wall, and stretched much further than the immediate port of entry. In November 2018, the Trump administration ordered that the wall at the Nogales port of entry be topped with concertina razor wire.
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Shuttle drivers congregated along the sidewalk, waiting for Tucson or Phoenix-bound passengers to fill their vans. Downtown in the shopping district, a garbage truck rumbled past, and Norteño music played from stereos outside of just-opening shops. It was morning, and the town of 20,000 was just beginning to wake up. Not 50 feet away, the coils of glinting wire expand like a lethal slinky. On the sidewalk where I stood in Nogales, Arizona, a storefront window displayed mannequin brides, dressed in white wedding dresses. The wire seemed to bloom overnight, six rows of it, placed all the way to the ground, within reach of playing children or wandering dogs. Combining the transcendence, hope and clarity of art with powerful analytical and conceptual tools, Razor Wire Women reveals the gendered dimensions of the incarceration now experienced by a growing number of women in the U.S.NOGALES, Arizona - The February sun reflects off the concertina razor wire strung across the U.S.-Mexico border wall like razor-sharp tinsel.

From the vantage points of those both inside and outside of prisons, this collection of essays and art illuminates many of the distinct experiences and concerns of incarcerated women, including those of girls in prison, abuse and rape, the policing of women, incarcerated motherhood, mental health issues in prisons, incarcerated women's artistic and cultural production, and prisons' impact on families, health, and sexuality. prison population, yet prison scholarship largely overlooks the struggles of incarcerated women, and their voices are often silenced both in and out of the prison infrastructure. Women make up the fastest-growing group of the U.S. Offering nuanced portraits of women's lives inside razor wire and prison walls, Razor Wire Women puts incarcerated women in dialogue with scholars, artists, educators and activists who live outside of prisons but work on issues connected to the prison industrial complex. The Life Inside: Incarcerated Women Represent Themselves through JournalismĮpilogue.Identifying Marks: What the Razor Wire Hides On Visual Politics and Poetics:Incarcerated Girls and Women ArtistsĢ0. Restorytive Justice: Theater as a Redressive Mechanism for Incarcerated Womenġ9. Lucas, Connie Convicta and Vato Emiliano Comicsġ6.Inside-Out: The Reaches and Limits of a Prison Programġ8. Education, Writing, and the ArtsĪshley E. From Women Prisoners to People in Women’s Prisons: Challenging the Gender Binary in Antiprison Work Transgender Women, Sexual Violence, and the Rule of Law: An Argument in Favor of Restorative and Transformative Justiceġ4. “If I Wasn’t Suicidal, That’ll Drive You to It”: Women, Jail, and Mental Healthġ2. Carceral State, Cultural Stake: Women behind American Bars and Beyondġ0.

ASFA and the Impact on Imprisoned Migrant Women and Their ChildrenĨ. Doing Time with Mom: A Nonfiction Essayħ. Incarcerated Women: Motherhood on the MarginsĦ. Healer: A Monologue from the Play Doin’ Time: Through the Visiting Glassĥ. Doing Time in Detention Home: Gendered Punishment Regimes in Youth JailsĤ. From Representations to Resistance: How the Razor Wire Binds Usģ.
