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The View is the only platform by and for women in the justice system with lived experience. We are the survivors of trauma and state-endorsed violence. Women also experience the worst effects of the climate crisis, including war, famine and rape. Increasingly eco-activists are being incarcerated indefinitely for peaceful protest. We stand with our suffragette sisters. Women are treated unfairly by the justice system, whether as women who have committed a crime or as victims. We work with women using art to reclaim their stories and reframe their future. Join our community’s vision for a world where women are celebrated, respected and treated with love and dignity – a world where every woman matters.
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In this edition of The View, we celebrate some of the most courageous and inspiring women of our time, some well-known, some less so. Women who have built feminist funding platforms. Women who have left a billion-dollar endowment to benefit women medical students in NYC.

This is the world we want to live in. These are the women that we want to know. The women whose legacy and sisterhood leave an indelible mark, like a kiss, of love and solidarity.

Here is a peak into issue 11:

Beyond Breaking News – The Unbroken Indrani Mukerjea retells her traumatic and life-changing experience in prison to Utkarsha Kesarkar.

In today’s social media-driven world, it’s easier than ever to obsess over unrealistic body expectations seen and heard on social media, Tilly Fawcett writes It’s MY Body!

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News, Views and Trues

  • Farah’s Story: A Step Forward in Her Fight for Justice
    Farah’s story, featured in The Mirror UK, highlights her battle with cancer while facing horrific conditions in prison, including being chained to her hospital bed. Her struggle for humane treatment is…
  • Illuminating Trauma: Feminist Perspective
    When Susan Pease Bannit transitioned away from her established psychotherapy practice, she brought to light the intricate layers of psychological trauma. Her narrative is more than just a personal tale; it serves as an essential beacon for anyone entangled in the grips of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), dissociative disorders and the haunting shadows of ritual abuse.
  • The View: For Women With Conviction
    Repost London’s Women And Justice Café: a Magazine turned London Arts Centre, The View is a platform by and for women with lived experiences of social reform and the criminal justice system.…
  • The Gift (for The View)
    Although she may not realize it, on the day she is born every little girl receives a gift, bought, wrapped and neatly wrapped in a small pink box. This gift is her personal identity, and inside it is the sum of all her dreams, all she will become, and all she will learn to be.

LEANNE’S STORY AT THE SMILEY CHARITY FILM AWARDS

The View Magazine is a Community Interest Company (CiC) that is a feminist human rights multi-media platform.  We advocate for all women who have been in contact with the justice system, whether as women in conflict with the law or women who have been victims of crime and are traumatized by the failures of agencies meant to keep us safe.   

We believe that women in prison and serving their license in the community must be heard and that the issues that affect them need to be highlighted. We know that change can only come from within, by women who have been affected by that system.

Founded by 3 incarcerated women the quarterly magazine embodies their challenges within the system that institutionally retraumatizes its inmates rather than rehabilitates. The View pays for contributions from women in the criminal justice system, which showcases their art, prose, and poetry to encourage them to own their narratives and tell their stories in their own words.  You can subscribe here. 

We pay our women artists half the proceeds from sales of merchandise from the art they have created that you can see in our online shop here that we sell across England and Ireland at art fairs and pop-ups and online and in our soon-to-open shop on Caledonian Road. 

The work The View recognises that women in prison often have complex mental health needs. Almost £500m  a year is spent on prison health care contracts and about £150m on mental health care, so why are women not receiving the treatment they deserve? Self-inflicted deaths are 8.6 times more likely in prison than in the general population and 70% of people who died from self-inflicted means whilst in prison had already been identified as having mental health needs.

The View generates profits from commercial sales of the magazine, and art that may be reinvested into much-needed advocacy and employment and skills programs for women and children who have suffered violence and trauma, as well as research into the systemic issues behind the inequality faced by women in the criminal justice system that will lead to real, meaningful criminal justice reform.

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Prison notecards

A digital art print by Dagmar on prison guards.
An art print by Dagmar on women and prison
An art print by Dagmar on prison therapy.
A portrait art print by Dagmar called System Sucks.

Art store

An art print about women being abused called Just Shut Up.
A woman on the run, an art print of a woman hiding behind curtains.
An art print called Play with me I'm bored by Anna Delvey.
An notecard called Flowers in An Old Milk Bottle with flowers in a vase on a table.
A portrait art print of a woman in a bright blue top with blonde, yellow hair.
An art print about women discrimination in prison.
A painting of a blonde women.
An art print of a woman with flowers around her eyes.
An A5 notecard portrait art colour print.
TITLE: Harlots (Watercolour on paper with silver paint) DIMENSIONS: 30cm x 30cm PRICE: £250 Artist: The View Collective