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 their health. The second part of the discussion will bring this paper into conversation with a selection of poems from the Dillwynia editions of the Unlocked Anthology — a collection of poems written by the incarcerated women from Dillwynia Correctional Centre who participated in Red Room Poetry's 'Unlocked' project. 
 
Readings are available on our website.