“We have so many prejudices that are ingrained in us and we’re socialized to have these ideas about incarcerated individuals and violence and why they’re here,” said Emily Flynn ’15, a student in Professor Amie Dowling’s Performing Arts and Community Exchange class. “For me, all these things were stripped away, and I was able to have these human interactions.”
Students worked with inmates at San Francisco Jail No. 5 in San Bruno, where they analyzed texts and collaborated on performances that provoked discussion, confronted social justice issues surrounding imprisonment, and sought meaning in America’s industrial incarceration system.
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