HeyJaredWrite or Die
Raw dispatches from Texas women's prisons on how the intersection of gender, race and place contribute to state-sanctioned, gender-based violence.
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From the Archives: Menopause in a Prison Cell (opens the original)
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<img alt="A graphic featuring a uterus made out of flowers behind red bars" class="sizing-normal" height="819" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!-rSV!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpub
The Other Lindsay Clancys (opens the original)
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<img alt="A pink-colored image of women rallied at the Lindsay Clancy trial, overlaid with a ghostly black-and-white image of female prisoners at LA County Jail" class="sizing-normal" height="819" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!0XlT!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_a
The Family We Make (Excerpt) (opens the original)
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<img alt="The cover art for the Winter 2025 issue of The Massachusetts Review, "Incarceration & Family", accompanied by text that reads "The Family We Make by Kwaneta Harris"" class="sizing-normal" height="819" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fet
Ask Kwaneta Anything #2: Questions from the Inside (opens the original)
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<img alt="A photo of Kwaneta Harris, a middle-aged Black woman in handcuffs, with a pink overlay and text reading "Ask Kwaneta #2: Questions from the Inside"" class="sizing-normal" height="819" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!BoQD!,w_1456,c_limit,f_a
Our Bodies, Their Currency: Parenthood and Survival in Texas’s Carceral System (opens the original)
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This article was originally printed in Issue 21.1 of The Scholar & Feminist, Barnard College’s renowned feminist journal. The issue was titled “Abolition Feminism and the Politics of Reproduction.”The following piece is both a condemnation and a call to action — a raw testimony that exposes how sexual extortion operates as official policy disguised as individual corruption. I write this as someone who has witnessed the calculated cruelty firsthand, who has seen guards weaponize par
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