October is National Domestic Violence Awareness and Prevention Month.
On today’s show, we’ll be in conversation with Tracy McCarter, a nurse and grandmother who was jailed after her husband died of a stab wound that was inflicted while Tracy was defending herself from a violent attack. Her story is chronicled in a new book called Radical Acts of Justice: How Ordinary People Are Dismantling Incarceration. That book is by our second guest, Jocelyn Simonson, a Professor of Law at Brooklyn Law School. She writes and teaches about criminal law, criminal procedure, evidence, and social change. Her scholarship explores ways in which the public participates in the criminal process and in the institutions of local governance that control policing and punishment. In particular, she studies bottom-up interventions in the criminal legal system, such as bail funds, copwatching, courtwatching, and participatory defense, asking how these real-life interventions should inform our conceptions of the design of institutions in the criminal legal system, the discourse of constitutional rights, and the meaning of democratic justice.
Follow Jocelyn Simonson on Twitter: https://twitter.com/j_simonson
This week’s Resistance in Residence Artist is multi-disciplinary artist, actress, poet, scholar and daughter of California, Mimi Tempestt.
Check out Mimi Tempestt’s new book: https://citylights.com/general-poetry/delicacy-of-emracing-spirals/
Mimi Tempestt has two upcoming in person events for her brand new book, The Delicacy of Embracing Spirals. She’ll be at City Lights Bookstore in San Francisco in conversation with Truong Tran on Thursday, October 19th at 6pm. And then, on Saturday, October 28th at 7pm, Mimi will be at Medicine for Nightmares bookstore and gallery in San Francisco, alongside poets Darius Simpson, Toya Groves, hector son of hector, Jessica Hairston, Dr. Ayodele Nzinga, Zouhair Mussa, soledad con carne, Troung Tran, & Josiah Luis Alderete.
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