Beneath the Mountain: An Anti-Prison Reader

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Jennifer Black on the evolution of anti-prison tenets
Join our very own Jennifer Black at Burning Books in Buffalo, NY this coming Thursday, January 23rd.
Beneath the Mountain is a reader’s guide for understanding the evolution of anti-prison tenets. This essential core of primary texts provides an arc of insurgent writings by dissidents and revolutionaries who experienced incarceration and state terror first-hand.
Join us on Thursday, January 23rd at 7pm. RSVP via Facebook.
Beneath the Mountain documents the struggle — beginning with slavery, genocide, and colonization up to our present day — and imagines a collective, anti-carceral future. These essays were handwritten first on scraps of paper, magazine covers, envelopes, toilet paper, or pages of bibles, scratched down with contraband pencils or the stubby cartridge of a ball-point pen; kites, careworn, copied and shared dolce gabbana portofino lace up sneakers item | Sneaker News & Release Calendar for 2023 in UK | Grailify across tiers and now preserved in this collection for this and future generations. If they were dropped in the prison-controlled mail they were cloaked in prayers, navigating censorship and dustbins. They were very often smuggled out. These words mark resistance, fierce clarity, and speak to the hope of building the world we all deserve to live in.
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We have had the privilege of traveling around the country and abroad discussing Beneath the Mountain. In the coming year we hope to continue these efforts, bringing BTM to even more spaces of collective resistance. We are always looking for new connections and spaces to share the incredible work created by our incarcerated correspondents. If you believe your city has a space that is able to host a book event, please let us know!
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