![ID: [A scanned document of a table of information pertaining to medical experiments conducted in a prison in 1963. The scan is an inverted image: white, type-written text on a black background speckled with white dots and a white margin on the left side of the frame. The information presented includes the dates of these experiments, the University of Pennsylvania doctors who facilitated them, the number of inmates who participated in the experiments, and the amount that inmates were paid, ranging from one to fifteen dollars per study. Brief descriptions of each test is listed, including “To obtain data on tolerance of Myagen,” “To determine effectiveness of drug, Grisactin” and “To determine toxicity of drug, Wy-713”. At the bottom of the frame is a yellow subtitle, “they classify people.”]](https://ias.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/017–CLS_Pre-ExistingCondition_2019_02-e1774380409661.jpg "017–CLS_Pre-ExistingCondition_2019_02")
Curated by Visualizing Abolition Visiting Faculty Pooja Rangan Run time: 49 minutes Prisons deny and censor the access of those trapped inside them—to information, to intimacy, to community, to meaningful work, to nourishment of all kinds, and perhaps most cruelly, to care. This program assembles a series of films, including works by filmmakers incarcerated in […]
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Join us to learn about the important work of Sister Warriors Freedom Coalition, a group of women and gender expansive folks who have been incarcerated and are building a movement to support each other, shift power, and lead systems and policy change. Niki Martinez is a leading social justice advocate and organizer dedicated to ending […]
Please join us for a conversation between Gina Athena Ulysse and Jennifer González, discussing Ulysse's solo exhibition Redwoods Rasanblaj: Origins & Disentanglements. Gina Athena Ulysse (b 1966) Haiti/United States is an artist-scholar, Professor of Humanities and Founding Director of the Rasanblaj Praxis Project Lab (RPPL) at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Concerned with the visceral in […]
