Arts + Justice
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Approaching justice from the perspective of arts and culture enables us to attend to its affective, embodied, social, and political dimensions, thus bringing together a range of cross-disciplinary dialogues.
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Book Chapter
What are the intellectual and political conditions that permitted me to understand the word “critic” as an allegation?

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Book Chapter
But in the void, young residents like the Corner Boys have developed new, creative, online strategies for making ends meet.

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Book Chapter
To lawyers, at least, the disciplines of the humanities and social sciences represent techniques for determining, representing, measuring, and summing desire.

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Essay
The only way to deconstruct a falsely fabricated prejudicial story is to tell a real one. So I turned to theatre.

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Book Chapter
Put another way, can the possibilities of masochism as sexual exceptionalism/subversion... extend to black women?

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Book Chapter
This essay tells a story about blackness and being, black durational performance, black power and the powers that cohere in the blackness of Now.

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Book Chapter
Performance opens up an opportunity to explore gendered experiences of traumatic violations and survival.

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Journal Article
This is a story of individuals undone by systems—like every story in The Wire.

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Journal Article
The photographs they send are studio portraits taken by incarcerated photographers whose job in prison is to take pictures. Allen poses in these photographs sometimes with props, always in uniform. The backdrops are designed and painted by incarcerated people. They break up the uniformity and repetition of the prison attire and staged poses. There are also photographs from our visits to see Allen. In most of these, he stands in the center and we huddle around, hugging him as tightly as we can.

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In this film, inmates are released from Huntsville State Penitentiary, taking in their first moments of freedom with phone calls, cigarettes, and quiet reflection at the Greyhound station up the block.