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The two eventually co-edited a book by the same name, also published by PM Press. As her child got older and Law engaged with the literature her child read, Law began to focus attention on the lack of
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In addition to print articles about gender, incarceration and resistance, she is a regular contributor to online news and culture venues, including
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Don't leave your friends behind : concrete ways to support families in social justice movements and communities> 'Victoria Law'
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Don't leave your friends behind: concrete ways to support families in social justice movements and communities
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Don't Leave Your Friends Behind: Concrete Ways to Support Families in Social Justice Movements and Communities
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Don't Leave Your Friends Behind: Concrete Ways to Support Families in Social Justice Movements and Communities
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In her twenties, after having a child, Law's activism began to include raising awareness of parents in
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in 1996 at the age of nineteen. In 2003, at the prompting of women incarcerated in an
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that she co-founded and co-built. She has had tangential involvement in the punk
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Corridors of Contagion: How the Pandemic Exposed the Cruelties of Incarceration
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Corridors of Contagion: Now the Pandemic Exposed the Cruelties of Incarceration
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and editing compilation zines about parenting for activists and their
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Prison by Any Other Name: The Harmful Consequences of Popular Reforms
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Prisons Make Us Safer: And 20 Other Myths about Mass Incarceration
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Prisons Make Us Safer: And 20 Other Myths about Mass Incarceration
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NYC as a joint project between Blackout Books and Nightcrawlers
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Resistance Behind Bars: the struggles of incarcerated women
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Resistance Behind Bars: The Struggles Of Incarcerated Women
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as a first offense. Her exposure to incarcerated people at
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Resistance Behind Bars: The Struggles of Incarcerated Women
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2009, Prevention for a Safer Society PASS Award for book
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to initiate herself into a Chinatown gang, but was given
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series, about travel in Hong Kong and South Africa, 2006
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Tenacious : art and writings from women in prison
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In addition to many zines she has authored or edited:
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Victoria Law at an ABC No Rio Halloween open house
Jamaica, Queens
Brooklyn College
victorialaw.net
Maya Schenwar
Chinese descent
Queens
armed robbery
probation
Rikers Island
prison abolition
Books Through Bars
Anarchist Black Cross
Oregon
zine
incarcerated women in the United States
monograph
PM Press
Books Through Bars
Freebird Bookstore
Brooklyn
darkroom
collective
caregiver
squatter
calico cat
anarchist communities
solidarity
mamazine
China Martens

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