Information, Incarcerated: A Discussion on Intellectual Freedom in an Era of Mass Incarceration

How does information flow in and out of prison, and how are these information channels fettered? What power structures profit from controlling the information that flows in and out of prisons? What is the availability in prisons of ideas outside of culturally dominant, white, and Western ways of thinking? 

Join the La Crosse Public Library for a discussion via Zoom during Banned Books Week with two queer-led prison abolition projects, Black and Pink Milwaukee and Madison-based LGBT Books to Prisoners, on intellectual freedom and censorship in an era of mass incarceration.

About the presenters:

Black and Pink Milwaukee (https://www.facebook.com/MKEBlackandPink/) is a collective based in Milwaukee, WI, organizing from an abolitionist feminist praxis to support currently and formerly incarcerated people who identify across the LGBTQ+ spectrum and/or living with HIV/AIDS in WI. We do this work by connecting people on the inside with penpals on the outside, organizing to meet the needs of our comrades on the inside, and engaging in community education. 

LGBT Books to Prisoners (https://lgbtbookstoprisoners.org/about-us/) is a trans-affirming, racial justice-focused, prison abolitionist project sending books to incarcerated LGBTQ-identified people across the United States.

Please note: the Zoom meeting link will be emailed on the day of the program.