The Question that Silences Women: An Interview with Gina Clayton, Founder and Executive Director of the Essie Justice Group. Issue 2 (1st October 2016)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Farr, Brittany
• Is Part Of: Souls. Volume 18:Issue 2/42016)
• Page Start: 459
• Page End: 462
• Publication Date: 2016-10-01
• Subjects: empowerment -- intersectionality -- interview -- mass incarceration -- organizing -- politics of respectability -- silence -- women; African Americans -- Periodicals; African Americans -- Social conditions -- Periodicals; African Americans -- History -- Periodicals; United States -- Race relations -- Periodicals; 305.896
• DOI: 10.1080/10999949.2016.1230818
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1099-9949

Abstract

Abstract : In this "short takes" interview with Gina Clayton, the founder and executive director of Essie Justice Group, Clayton discusses how and where the politics of respectability emerges in her organizing work with women with incarcerated loved ones. Essie Justice Group harnesses the power of women with incarcerated loved ones in the service of ending mass incarceration. Clayton articulates how the burdens of isolation and alienation experienced by these women are often exacerbated by the politics of respectability. Grounded in a feminist politics itself rooted in collective action, Essie Justice Group is working to counter the silencing and oppression of women.