It's Kina Hard Da' Cry

Art and Writings by Adults Incarcerated
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-63667-736-1
Verlag: Peter Lang

Buch, Englisch, 132 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 203 g

Reihe: Liberatory stories and rebel voices for abolition

It’s Kina Hard Da’ Cry: Art and Writing by Adults Incarcerated by Save the Kids from Incarceration (STKI) is one of the only books featuring a collection of writing and art by justice impacted individuals throughout the U.S. This powerful, ground-breaking, and thought-provoking book is a must read for anyone who wants to understand the hearts and minds of those behind prison walls. It serves as a call to listen to those incarcerated. This book is dedicated to providing a space for incarcerated adults to critically express their experiences related to the criminal justice system,the school system, and their communities.
"An amazing collection of writings and artwork. It’s Kina Hard Da’ Cry powerfully embraces the courage and spirit of its authors and doesn’t hold back in saying what needs to be said."
—Dr. Richard J. White, Sheffield Hallam University, UK
"This powerful collection of voices educates us from behind inhuman walls designed to create despair and hopelessness. It is a testament to the unyielding spirit of righteous defiance in the face of an unforgiving carceral culture."
—Dr. Peter McLaren, author of Pedagogy of Insurrection

Über Autor(innen)

Save the Kids from Incarceration was founded in 2009 by four brilliant and hopeful Black youth, Amoud, Jahri, Ali, and Jason, in a juvenile detention facility in New York to liberate and defend all systems impacted by BIYOC. Save the Kids from Incarceration is a national grassroots transformative justice organization dedicated to building a movement for alternatives to and the end of the school to prison pipeline and the policing, criminalizing, and incarcerating of all youth through integrated services ,hip hop, and lowrider advocacy for systems-impacted BIYOC.