Author: Victoria Law

Victoria Law is a writer, photographer, and mother. She is a co-founder of Books Through Bars–New York City, an organization that sends free radical literature and books to prisoners nationwide, and editor of the zine Tenacious: Writings from Women in Prison. She is also the author of Resistance Behind Bars: The Struggles of Incarcerated Women (PM Press, 2009). Rachel Galindo’s artwork and writings about life at the women’s prison in Pueblo, Colo., have appeared in Tenacious and Resistance Behind Bars. Her art has also appeared in the Canadian zine Kiss Machine and will be on the cover of the upcoming Mamaphiles: A Mama Zine Collaboration.
Women Resist Behind Bars

Women Resist Behind Bars

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Illustrations by Rachel Galindo Women have resisted and protested their conditions of confinement since the start of separate female prisons in the 1800s. However, despite the growing body of literature examining female incarceration, little attention has been paid to what women do to change or protest their conditions, thus reinforcing prevailing stereotypes of women as…

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