S1:E6 - LADY UNCHAINED
On the final episode in the inaugural season of the Women Beyond Walls podcast, host Sabrina Mahtani is joined in conversation with Lady Unchained, the Founder and Creative Director of Unchained Poetry, an artistic platform for artists with lived experience of the Criminal Justice System. On this episode Brenda Birungi, best known as author, poet, mentor and broadcaster Lady Unchained, shares her journey and explains why writing poetry became an important creative outlet for her both in prison and beyond.
Some of the links shared in this episode include:
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Working Chance, Worst Case Scenario: How Racism in the Criminal Justice System Harms Women's Chances of Finding Work, 2021
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Prison Reform Trust, Why Focus on Reducing Women's Imprisonment?, 2022
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Hibiscus, Black Women's Experience of the Criminal Justice System, 2021
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The Griffins Society, A suspect population: An examination of bail decision making for foreign national women in criminal courts in England and Wales, 2022
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UK Women's Budget Group, The Case for Sustainable Funding for Women's Centres, 2020
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Campaign to stop the UK Government building 500 more prison places for women
"The conditions in jail are so difficult to just live through that me picking up a pen was the only way I could save myself. And I think that pen really did save me because it could have gone either way.”
Lady Unchained
