Corridors of Contagion with Victoria Law and Maya Schenwar

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.

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.