Welcome to The View Magazine Issue 12: Women Versus The StateNew issue

What happens when women confront the oppressive forces of state power? The View Magazine Issue 12 fearlessly examines this question, delving into the intersection of justice, trauma, and resilience. At its core, this issue is about the strength of women navigating a world where systemic failures often perpetuate marginalization. Inside This Issue This edition illuminates the lives…

December 10, 20240Comments

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What happens to the children of mothers in prison?

“It’s hard when it’s your mum in prison…she’s supposed to be the one looking after you.” (Malik, 13) Today marks International Children’s Day. The View dedicates this day to 741 000 women in prison across the world and over 500 000 incarcerated mothers. Children of incarcerated mothers bear the brunt of the effects of unjust,…

June 1, 20220Comments

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Roe v. Wade What Next? An American View

by Sara and Abigail Plomondon, The View Summer Interns Those are the words on many young women’s minds in the United States. In 1973 the United States Supreme court ruled, in a 7-2 vote, that women had the Right to Privacy. This allowed women the right to choose whether to have an abortion without government…

May 20, 20220Comments

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Women vs The State

What happens when the State and its agencies let us down and women are harmed, lose their loved ones or gaslighted and persecuted by the State? The View Magazine with Photo North is hosting a panel Women vs The State on how the actions of the government and its agencies affect women. …

April 30, 20220Comments

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Artists’ Call Out

Call for art from women with lived experience of detention or incarceration who make artExhibition dates: 15 May - 12 June 2022 www.thehouseofsmalls.art This is a call for submissions from women who create art as a release/response to having been restricted. This might include but is not limited to being held on licence in or…

April 19, 20220Comments

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Gaslighting by the State

by Tabitha Lean CW: Discusses domestic violence, abuse and carceral violence As conversations in white Australian feminist circles have centred on coercive control and the attempts to have it criminalised, I have been thinking a lot about gaslighting as a form of emotional abuse. The gaslighting I am familiar with (the type of abuse that…

March 29, 20220Comments

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Banning the Use of Restraints on Pregnant Woman in Custody

In the United States, one third of corrections institutions restrain pregnant and labouring women. This goes against the best practice recommendations of medical, legal, and human rights organisations. Restraining women during pregnancy and childbirth pose health and developmental risks to both mother and baby. We call for federal legislation to ban the use of restraints…

March 28, 20220Comments

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Statement by The View on recent statistics released by Ministry of Justice

The View condemns the unacceptable rise of death in custody following the publication of the Ministry of Justice Safety in Custody Statistics: Quarterly Update to September 2021 The Ministry of Justice Safety in Custody Statistics September 2021 report found that there was an increase in deaths in prisons from the 12 months to December…

February 6, 20220Comments

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From Women’s Prisons to Women’s Centres: Women’s Punishment

Eleanor Jones, Criminology BA (Hons) Graduate from the University of Liverpool Half the women discharged from prison reoffend.1 Over 17 500 children are separated from their mothers every year due to female imprisonment. We are calling for greater investment in researching and implementing alternatives to women’s imprisonment, because women’s imprisonment is ineffective and inflicts the morally…

August 5, 20200Comments

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