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Corridors of Contagion with Victoria Law and Maya Schenwar
Featured Book
Corridors of Contagion
Tracing the narratives of five incarcerated individuals, Corridors of Contagion speaks to the devastating impact of surviving the pandemic inside prison walls. Corridors of Contagion brings to light the experiences of five people incarcerated across the United States as they navigate the onset of the pandemic—and the many months, stretched into years, that followed. Journalist Victoria Law combines this storytelling with a trenchant analysis of the structural failures of the US carceral system: failures that made prisons uniquely vulnerable to COVID-19 outbreaks, from overcrowding to solitary confinement, from insufficient healthcare to life sentences.
This book will be available for purchase at the event.
About This Event
Join us as we welcome Victoria Law and Maya Schenwar to the store for a conversation about Corridors of Contagion. Tracing the narratives of five incarcerated individuals, Corridors of Contagion speaks to the devastating impact of surviving the pandemic inside prison walls.
Featured Author
Victoria Law
Victoria Law is an author and freelance journalist focusing on the intersections of incarceration, gender and resistance. Her books include Resistance Behind Bars: The Struggles of Incarcerated Women, Prison By Any Other Name: The Harmful Consequences of Popular Reform, and “Prisons Make Us Safer” and 20 Other Myths About Mass Incarceration. Her writings about prisons and other forms of confinement have appeared in The New York Times, The Nation, Wired, Bloomberg Businessweek, The Village Voice, The Guardian, In These Times, HellGate and Truthout. She is a co-founder of Books Through Bars—NYC and the zine Tenacious: Art and Writings by Women in Prison.
In Conversation With
Maya Schenwar
Maya Schenwar is director of the Truthout Center for Grassroots Journalism. She is also a writer and organizer focused on collectively ending criminalization and building abolitionist worlds. Maya is the co-editor of We Grow the World Together: Parenting Toward Abolition, co-author of Prison by Any Other Name, and author of Locked Down, Locked Out. She is a cofounder of the Movement Media Alliance and the Chicago Community Bond Fund, and she organizes with Love & Protect. She lives in Chicago with her child, partner, and abolitionist cat.
About the Venue
Pilsen Community Books
Pilsen Community Books is a worker owned and operated independent bookstore that specializes in new and used literary fiction, radical history and politics, and literature in translation. The staff's goal is to unite their bookselling experience with their belief that labor is entitled to all it produces.
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