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(Love is) a bustling highway: Mutual aid across prison walls (2022)
1media/Promo_Chalermkraivuth_LoveIsABustlingHighway - Panchalay Chalermkraivuth.pngmedia/Promo_Chalermkraivuth_LoveIsABustlingHighway 1.pngmedia/Promo_Chalermkraivuth_LoveIsABustlingHighway - Panchalay Chalermkraivuth.png2022-04-11T13:47:56+00:00Carlin Liu Ziaf35c69e953cd4001ddc41bd48e720246e1701a08437Find out what abolitionist care looks likeplain2023-08-22T15:47:52+00:0039.963, -90.7542Chalay Chalermkraivuth01/01/2013 - 04/01/2022Carlin Liu Ziaf35c69e953cd4001ddc41bd48e720246e1701a08
By Chalay Chalermkraivuth
The isolation that prison imposes on people in captivity is formidable—but through letters, phone calls, collaboration, and deep commitment, relationships endure. In this collection of stories, formerly incarcerated people and their loved ones (including abolitionist organizers) talk about love that cuts through state violence and makes life inside more survivable. Care work and mutual aid are central to everyday abolitionist feminist practice—this project both details their expansiveness and probes their limits.
12021-05-12T00:27:27+00:00Carlin Liu Ziaf35c69e953cd4001ddc41bd48e720246e1701a08MapCarlin Liu Zia30Exhibits plotted on an interactive mapplain2025-04-09T19:19:33+00:00Carlin Liu Ziaf35c69e953cd4001ddc41bd48e720246e1701a08
1media/Promo_Santibanez_I heard it - Tamara Waite-Santibanez.pngmedia/Promo_Santibanez_I heard it - Tamara Waite-Santibanez.pngmedia/Promo_Santibanez_I heard it - Tamara Waite-Santibanez.png2022-04-11T17:51:45+00:00Carlin Liu Ziaf35c69e953cd4001ddc41bd48e720246e1701a08I Heard it Before I Ever Saw it: Tattooing and the US Prison System (2022)Carlin Liu Zia17Explore tattooing's relationship to prisonplain2023-08-22T15:55:51+00:0041.8781, -87.6298Tamara Santibañez01/01/1980 - 05/01/2022Carlin Liu Ziaf35c69e953cd4001ddc41bd48e720246e1701a08
12021-05-12T00:27:27+00:00Carlin Liu Ziaf35c69e953cd4001ddc41bd48e720246e1701a08TimelineCarlin Liu Zia13Exhibits plotted on an interactive timelineplain2025-04-03T16:16:10+00:00Carlin Liu Ziaf35c69e953cd4001ddc41bd48e720246e1701a08
12021-05-12T00:27:27+00:00Carlin Liu Ziaf35c69e953cd4001ddc41bd48e720246e1701a08WebCarlin Liu Zia8Exhibits visualized in an interactive webplain2023-04-27T19:43:14+00:00Carlin Liu Ziaf35c69e953cd4001ddc41bd48e720246e1701a08
1media/Square Promo_Szper_Language Party - Lindsay Nicole Szper.jpgmedia/Square Promo_Szper_Language Party - Lindsay Nicole Szper.jpgmedia/Square Promo_Szper_Language Party - Lindsay Nicole Szper.jpg2023-04-14T14:10:09+00:00Carlin Liu Ziaf35c69e953cd4001ddc41bd48e720246e1701a08Culture Without Borders Language Collective's First Ever Language Party and Translation Workshop (2023)Carlin Liu Zia7Practice English, Spanish, and the art of translation in a low-pressure, bi+lingual party setting.plain2023-05-18T17:50:06+00:0040.6958, -73.8272Lindsay SzperCarlin Liu Ziaf35c69e953cd4001ddc41bd48e720246e1701a08
1media/snacks.jpgmedia/snacks.jpgmedia/snacks.jpg2022-04-15T13:45:03+00:00Carlin Liu Ziaf35c69e953cd4001ddc41bd48e720246e1701a08A few minutesCarlin Liu Zia6A quick snack - exhibits you can either sample quickly in a few minutes, or dig deeper intoplain2022-04-15T17:33:51+00:00Carlin Liu Ziaf35c69e953cd4001ddc41bd48e720246e1701a08
12021-05-12T00:27:27+00:00Carlin Liu Ziaf35c69e953cd4001ddc41bd48e720246e1701a08Freedom, liberationCarlin Liu Zia2Theme Tag: Freedom, Liberationplain2023-04-13T22:05:39+00:00Carlin Liu Ziaf35c69e953cd4001ddc41bd48e720246e1701a08
12021-05-12T00:27:27+00:00Carlin Liu Ziaf35c69e953cd4001ddc41bd48e720246e1701a08RaceCarlin Liu Zia1Theme Tag: Raceplain2021-05-12T00:27:27+00:00Carlin Liu Ziaf35c69e953cd4001ddc41bd48e720246e1701a08
12022-04-29T14:55:35+00:00Carlin Liu Ziaf35c69e953cd4001ddc41bd48e720246e1701a08Abolition, prison, incarcerationCarlin Liu Zia1Theme tag: Abolition, prison, incarcerationplain2022-04-29T14:55:35+00:00Carlin Liu Ziaf35c69e953cd4001ddc41bd48e720246e1701a08
12022-04-29T14:56:40+00:00Carlin Liu Ziaf35c69e953cd4001ddc41bd48e720246e1701a08Activism and organizingCarlin Liu Zia1Theme tag: Activism and organizingplain2022-04-29T14:56:40+00:00Carlin Liu Ziaf35c69e953cd4001ddc41bd48e720246e1701a08
12022-04-29T15:25:43+00:00Carlin Liu Ziaf35c69e953cd4001ddc41bd48e720246e1701a08LoveCarlin Liu Zia1Theme tag: Loveplain2022-04-29T15:25:43+00:00Carlin Liu Ziaf35c69e953cd4001ddc41bd48e720246e1701a08
12021-05-12T00:27:26+00:00Carlin Liu Ziaf35c69e953cd4001ddc41bd48e720246e1701a08Co-creation & shared learningCarlin Liu Zia1Medium Tag: Co-creation & shared learningplain2021-05-12T00:27:26+00:00Carlin Liu Ziaf35c69e953cd4001ddc41bd48e720246e1701a08
12021-05-12T00:27:26+00:00Carlin Liu Ziaf35c69e953cd4001ddc41bd48e720246e1701a08Edited AudioCarlin Liu Zia1Medium Tag: Edited Audioplain2021-05-12T00:27:26+00:00Carlin Liu Ziaf35c69e953cd4001ddc41bd48e720246e1701a08
12021-05-12T00:27:27+00:00Carlin Liu Ziaf35c69e953cd4001ddc41bd48e720246e1701a08Care, healing, wellbeingCarlin Liu Zia1Theme Tag: Care, healing, wellbeingplain2021-05-12T00:27:27+00:00Carlin Liu Ziaf35c69e953cd4001ddc41bd48e720246e1701a08
12021-05-12T00:27:27+00:00Carlin Liu Ziaf35c69e953cd4001ddc41bd48e720246e1701a08Collectives & communalityCarlin Liu Zia1Theme Tag: Collectives & communalityplain2021-05-12T00:27:27+00:00Carlin Liu Ziaf35c69e953cd4001ddc41bd48e720246e1701a08
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1media/Promo_Santibanez_I heard it - Tamara Waite-Santibanez.pngmedia/Promo_Santibanez_I heard it - Tamara Waite-Santibanez.pngmedia/Promo_Santibanez_I heard it - Tamara Waite-Santibanez.png2022-04-11T17:51:45+00:00Carlin Liu Ziaf35c69e953cd4001ddc41bd48e720246e1701a08I Heard it Before I Ever Saw it: Tattooing and the US Prison System (2022)17Explore tattooing's relationship to prisonplain2023-08-22T15:55:51+00:0041.8781, -87.6298Tamara Santibañez01/01/1980 - 05/01/2022Carlin Liu Ziaf35c69e953cd4001ddc41bd48e720246e1701a08
12021-05-12T00:27:27+00:00Carlin Liu Ziaf35c69e953cd4001ddc41bd48e720246e1701a08"Tell me about that world": speculative archives, black feminist listening practices (2021)2Explore the liberation landscapes of community care practitioners in NYCplain2021-08-09T17:50:16+00:0040.7128, -74.0060Taylor Thompson03/01/2020 - 05/31/2021Carlin Liu Ziaf35c69e953cd4001ddc41bd48e720246e1701a08
1media/Promo_Chalermkraivuth_LoveIsABustlingHighway 1_thumb.png2022-04-11T17:03:05+00:002022 Promo Chalermkraivuth Mutual Aid 11An off-white impression of the Western Illinois Correctional Center is imprinted upon a startling red background. Several of the prison buildings are shaped like Xs, stamped graphically over the land.media/Promo_Chalermkraivuth_LoveIsABustlingHighway 1.pngplain2022-04-11T17:03:05+00:00
