when does "i" become "we"?
2018
softcover book
published by bam & wendy's subway
in 2013, the war resisters league, a pacifist organization active in the united states since 1923, put out a call in critical resistance’s the abolitionist for stories of tear-gassing and pepper-spraying in prisons and jails. hundreds of people sent in letters revealing the rampancy of human rights abuses in incarceration centers. freya powell’s when does i become we, based on her video on fire like hell fire, gathers some of these harrowing accounts of prisoners’ exposure to chemical weapons into a polyphony of voices relating the injustices suffered through gassing and medical negligence and the lasting physical and psychological trauma resulting from these experiences.
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