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Rebel Justice - changing the way you see justice
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We never think about it until it impacts our lives, or that of someone close.
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Rebel Justice - changing the way you see justice
Teaser: The View Magazine Issue 14
Today, we’re bringing you a powerful mini episode to celebrate the release of Issue 14 of The View Magazine, dropping July 31st.
The View is the only platform in the UK created by and for women in the justice system; women who are survivors of trauma, of state-endorsed violence, and who face the harshest effects of the climate crisis, incarceration, and systemic injustice.
In this episode, we sit down with the fearless editors and writers behind The View to talk about this issue’s themes, the stories that matter, and why now, more than ever, women’s voices must be heard, and believed.
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Speaker 1:Today, we're bringing you a powerful mini episode to celebrate the release of issue 14 of the View magazine, releasing on July 31st. The View is the only platform in the UK created by and for women in the justice system women in the justice system, women who are survivors of trauma, of state-endorsed violence and who face the harshest effects of the climate crisis, incarceration and systemic injustice. In this episode, we sit down with the editors and writers behind the View to talk about this issue's themes, the stories that matter and why, now more than ever, women's voices must be heard and believed. We'll talk art activism, prison reform and reclaiming narratives from activists behind bars to women using art to resist, heal and rise. This is not just a magazine, it's a movement. Join us as we lift up the view's vision for a world where every woman is celebrated, respected and treated with dignity, because here on Rebel Justice, we don't just tell stories. We create space for truth, resistance and radical hope. We spoke with Swarili Bodas.
Speaker 2:I interviewed Dr Jade Lavelle. She is a criminologist and academic who is actually rethinking how we understand justice, especially when it comes to women and young people affected by violence and the systemic neglect. And then, one of our very powerful projects it was an exhibition held in Bristol in May this year. It's called Empty Shirts Lost Childhood. Now, it was an art-based initiative where young people, many of whom who have been directly affected by serious violence, used school t-shirts as in school shirts as canvases to express their grief, trauma, resistance, etc. You know, and instead of the usual farewell messages where we, at the end of the school years, we write those farewell messages on school shirts, these they told those raw stories and painful truths. Some of them wrote name of lost friends due to violence, then the date of the incarceration, experiences of abuse, loss, etc. What's so striking is that this project didn't just focus on the usual headline-grabbing stories knife crime and stuff. It highlighted the quieter, more hidden forms of violence knife crime and stuff. It highlighted the quieter, more hidden forms of violence the gender-based bullying, domestic abuse, the, the grief of losing someone to prison. Then you know, these are the traumas that often go unseen. She's using creativity not just as therapy but like as a testimony and a way to confront silence with truth and bring visibility to the left out of the justice conversation.
Speaker 2:A story that has exposed serious concerns about International Institute for Strategic Studies, iiss. It's a high-profile London-based think tank. The organization is globally reputed, but it is currently under scrutiny for failing to uphold transparency and accountability, safeguarding rights, etc. I think we've spoken about Farah Damji in this podcast earlier. This story also has her testimonies, her former partner who was a senior ISS fellow, Nigel Gould- Davies ISS fellow, and testimonies from multiple women describing Davies as coercive, emotionally abusive. They were deemed inadmissible under UK law. These accounts included allegations of manipulation, coercive control and psychological harm. This case raises broader issues about how legal and institutional systems like ISS protect the powerful individuals while actually silencing the survivors, especially when the accused, you know, hold some kind of influence, privilege and there is some kind of institutional backing, and so I think the story then calls into question how elite organizations use their prestige to, you know, misconduct rather than actually protecting those claimed to serve.
Speaker 1:We also spoke with editor Ioana Misca.
Speaker 3:It's's called beloved and the boundaries of being an intersectional feminist reading of three different novels, and it basically explores the intersectionality between oppression and how it's not a binary between us versus them, or like the other versus the self.
Speaker 3:It's more like a triangular thing where it's the self, the other, the marginalized other and then the animals as well.
Speaker 3:So I was trying to draw a link on how the western conceptualization of like the human you know, as we know it the human is actually like a very misogynistic idea because it's a straight, white, rational man and if you don't fit into those categories then you're basically either abhuman, subhuman or animal or something in between.
Speaker 3:And so it goes into the politics of tony morrison's novel, which is really about this woman called seth who was experiencing the slavery in that time and basically she was denied reproductive rights. She wasn't allowed to breastfeed her own children, her children were commodified, her body was commodified and basically she was just treated as a product. Her children were taken from her, they were sold as property and you know, her ovaries, her reproductive organs, was just used as basically like this model for replicating life in other systems. I used Zacharia M Jackson, who's a really famous kind of more modern black thinker and how she kind of a black thinker and how she kind of sees capitalism and the whole system as basically just commodifying life over and over again and she talks about slavery in that time was basically doing that and the terrain who was receiving that violence was basically the bodies of black women.
Speaker 1:Joanna has also written an article following an interview with CEO of Emotion Dysregulation in Autism, also known as EDA. Zeze Sohawan Diagnosed with autism psychosis and a personality disorder at a young age. Zeze has lived experience with mental health challenges and care leaver services. This personal journey fuelled her passion for creating a safe space for others to express their emotions and navigate similar struggles.
Speaker 3:It was really really an enlightening conversation about basically how the systems of care fail autistic young people over and over again and instead of having a system that is designed to prevent crisis, they kind of just work on treating it while it's happening. And I think she said that that can actually make it more traumatic for autistic young people because a lot of the time they come in and they are more traumatized by the process instead of being taught and educated on how to manage their emotions and how to prevent a crisis. Sometimes it takes ages for them to be diagnosed and that whole process in itself can be traumatic. So she's advocating for trying to reduce inpatient care units for young autistic children and kind of just building a more community-based support where people are educated on all levels and what it means to be autistic. So she's also a neurodivergent CEO and obviously that's very different for her because she's not. She doesn't live in a world where it's designed for neurodivergent people.
Speaker 1:Another article focuses on the Views Cancer campaign.
Speaker 3:The different experience and testimonies we had from different women and the systematic failures of the healthcare, like NHS and HMP Bronzefield as well, how they are basically letting women die in their prison, and it's basically saying how many more women need to die before something changes. We're currently writing a letter to the royal family and we're trying to collect signatures.
Speaker 1:We're trying to raise awareness through, you know, different platforms other articles in this issue from joya can focus on mothers behind bars, in addition to an interview with claire and zakaina, two mothers of the filton 18 the case right now, from the prosecution from from the cps.
Speaker 4:There's been political interference in the case. We've seen how the Attorney General's Office has shared the context of the CPS and the counterterror police with the Israeli embassy. Why would they need this information and why would the Attorney General's Office even volunteer this information? The CPS is supposed to be an independent body and you know this gives us chills just thinking about all these external political interferences in their case.
Speaker 1:A two-part podcast will be available to listen to from the 6th of August. We hope you enjoyed this teaser. Read these articles alongside many, many more in the next issue of the View magazine. Articles alongside many, many more in the next issue of the view magazine. If you haven't already, you can support the view magazine for just 20 pounds and receive four digital editions and one print issue a year. Make sure to follow us on our social media. We're on instagram at the underscore view underscore magazines, and you can also find us on linkedin x and tiktok.