I truly feel this exact way. They are such gifts and really do instill a sense of hope (or something like it) that I gave up on long ago. Almost every single one has had an important impact on me, and they have all taught me something about the world we live in but also about what it means to be a compassionate and…

I don’t know if I had the same take away from the case you mentioned. I watched this a while ago but it seemed to me that his violence and bad behavior were in someways very motivated by and contingent on a sense of hopelessness and doom that the prison (and solitary) instilled in him. Almost as if he recognized the…

Free online. PBS website or just google it and you’ll find it.

I love the frontline documentaries- am never dissappointed. And agree 100% with your recommendation Solitary Nation and the accompanying documentary that takes on the prison system more broadly are terrific. Glad to know I’m not alone in my appreciation of these FREE works. PBS forever.

It is explicitly discussed in the introduction to the interview, where a link is provided to additional reports, and is additionally referenced when the author asks us to consider how this case, involving someone sentenced for a violent crime, relates to wider discussions on prison reform. Aka the author explicitly…

Ok, but why do you find that necessary? What level of detail would you find adequate?

Yes it does- at the very beginning of the article and Blast discusses it herself within the Interview. But again, you are missing one important point: people who commit horrible crimes do not transmogrify into less than human entities in the carrying out of violence. Prisoners deserve the same human rights and…

How is this a “promotion?” - interviews are not inherently forms of support or even approval, and I don’t think this peice took a moral stance about Blasts culpability or incarceration in any way that could be classified as promotion. If you want to critique the piece, go at it. But this weak shit isn’t going to do…

Glad to see this interview here and to have it prefaced with some important questions- unfortunately people seem to be disregarding them and commenting with hateful nonsense anyway. Here are some other thoughts/questions I have to hopefully add to the conversation:

I don’t know where to start with you. You seem to be pretty attached to the way you view things and I am not sure if there is in any point in trying to expand your perspective. Firstly, your critique of queer seems a little reductionist. There is no linguistic dictator that manages what these words mean and how they…

Queer lez here and all I have to say is slow yr roll. Oh, and that you are transphobic. I’ve never been so disappointed by a kinja comment. Wow

Sounds like a rich person problem poor bb

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Never said that. But “violence” is such a broad concept that any generalization like the one you made is meaningless. You can’t just make a sweeping argument with no analysis and think some impossibly vague statistic is all you need to prove it. This study shows that men are actually more likely to travel…

I know that you are totally being earnest in this discussion, and it is appreciated. That being said, I think a lot of you confusion lies in trying to understand your experiences abroad through a racialized western perspective. While systems of oppression and exclusion can be found everywhere, they are each…

I would like to thoroughly critique this but it's such lazy trolling that I can't

Thanks for responding. Firstly, being regarded as any version of “white” is clearly used as a greeting and a form of endearment 99% of the time. It is not comparable to situations that you mentioned in Europe of the States- it’s a false equivalency. I was often referred to as “the white girls” (but in French) as I was…

going to a place to “put things in perspective,” is just as fucked up as those motivated by the white savior complex. An entire country and the suffering and celebration of its people is not there to be used as a way for you to realize how good you really have it. Not only does that completely strip the culture and…

Have to say I never expected a comment like this. Anyway, I am not sure where to begin with a response... instead of me just making assumptions of all the terrible things you are implying I will actually just ask you: 1. What do you mean by “black people exploit whites studying there?” 2. Do you think all exploitive…

Came here to say this. 90% true.