Columbia Middle for Justice and V-Day’s Past Incarceration Venture, in collaboration with Rehabilitation By the Arts (RTA) and Human Photos, created an animated brief movie by the joint initiative, “Proper/Write to Heal: Incarcerated and Previously Incarcerated Girls in Their Personal Voices.” The 2D movie, Doing Time: A Girls’s View, unveils the experiences – and their influence – of incarcerated and previously incarcerated ladies.
The writers embody the Write to Heal initiative’s Jonel Beauvais; Judy Clark; Leah Faria; Selina Fulford; Latisha Morris; Concord; Betsy Ramos; Edna Sams; Roslyn Smith; and Cheryl Wilkins.
The Proper/Write to Heal Initiative acknowledged:
“We consider the time is overdue for ladies impacted by the justice system to inform their very own tales, in their very own voices, about how they skilled incarceration and what it has performed to their lives on the within and after being launched, acknowledging the hurt we now have performed and the trauma we skilled on our journeys to therapeutic.”
By Proper/Write to Heal, ladies share how they deal with the results of incarceration on themselves, their households, and communities to alter how folks perceive the influence of criminalization on ladies. Writing and storytelling are therapeutic interventions for individuals who have skilled loss and trauma and may result in therapeutic, redemption, and intimacy when shared collectively with these impacted. This system goals to humanize the distinctive particular person and collective experiences of girls, significantly ladies of coloration, who, from early of their lives, face racism, violence, and structural boundaries that result in punishment and imprisonment.
Take a couple of minutes to observe the movie:
Doing Time – A Lady’s View is produced by Rehabilitation By the Arts, with Katherine Vockins serving as govt director. Ricki Gold is deputy director.
The movie was produced by a collaboration between Columbia College Middle for Justice’s co-founder and co-director Cheryl Wilkins and V-Day, Program Supervisor, Past Incarceration, Roslyn Smith. Elizabeth Ruelas and Kimberly Ingram did the voiceover. The animation was by Human Photos.
Supply: V-Day
Debbie Diamond Sarto is information editor at Animation World Community.
