Bridges Inside: Women and Prison (June)

Facilitator(s) 

Sacha Jamieson 

Text(s) 

‘Holistic Conceptualizations of Health by Incarcerated Aboriginal Women in New South Wales, Australia’ (2022); by Sacha Kendall, Stacey Lighton, Juanita Sherwood, Eileen Baldry, and Elizabeth Sullivan 

Selections from the Unlocked Anthology Dillwynia Correction Centre (2014); by Various Authors 

This session will examine concepts of health from the perspectives of incarcerated Aboriginal Australian women. Sacha Jamieson will open the session with a discussion on her paper ‘Holistic Conceptualizations of Health by Incarcerated Aboriginal Women in New South Wales, Australia,’ a qualitative study that examines Aboriginal Australian women’s understandings of health. The second part of the discussion will bring this paper into conversation with a selection of poems from the Unlocked Anthology — the product of the Unlocked project run by Red Room Poetry. All poems were written by incarcerated women who were participants in the program.  
 
Readings are available on our website.