Introducing Survivor Chronicles

We’re excited to introduce Survivor Chronicles: Free Them All, a Podcast by Survived & Punished NY. This podcast is built around the voices and analyses of criminalized survivors and their loved ones.In S&P NY, we have been building with criminalized survivors—people who took some action to survive abuse and were criminalized for it—since 2017. Many of our beloved comrades inside have come home—but far too many remain behind bars in abusive state cages. And every single person still in a cage could be released today with a stroke of Kathy Hochul’s pen. Her refusal to act makes her personally responsible for continuing to leave our loved ones in the clutches of this racist, corrupt, and death-making system. We believe that freedom from sexual and intimate violence begins with abolishing prisons and policing.This episode will give you some context for our work and political analysis. It’s also a teaser/trailer for what’s to come. Throughout this series, you’ll hear directly from criminalized survivors and their loved ones as they speak out against the cruelties of the carceral system—from state-imposed family separation, to the social and economic context that led to survivors’ criminalization, to the endless barriers to caring for a loved one across prison walls.With each episode, we'll include resources for further reading. And over the course of the series we'll include lots of calls to action. For now, here are some materials to give you a fuller introduction to S&P's lineage and analysis.Here's Survived & Punished's analysis and vision statement.Here's a poem by Joan Little called "I Am Somebody."Here's a zine called "No Selves to Defend" about the legacy of criminalizing women of color for self-defense, by Mariame Kaba.Here's a curriculum guide on the criminalization of domestic violence.If you want to stay up to date with calls to action and other opportunities to get involved, sign up here.Writing and producing by Jade Abdul-Malik. Podcast artwork by Mon M. Thanks to Focus for Health and NYC Connect whose support makes this podcast possible.