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Breea Willingham

Always Already Podcast, a critical theory podcast

Beyond Prisons

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Mark Padoongpatt

Calvin Warren

Alfie Bown

Simone Kolysh

Joanna Steinhardt

Eugene Thacker

James Padilioni

Mary Hawkesworth

James Chamberlain

Charles Mills

Amy Allen

Anna L. Tsing

Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

Rosa Luxemburg

OwlTail

In this episode, John is joined by his colleague, Dr. Breea Willingham, to discuss her multiple forms of work on higher education in prisons, both within and without academia. Their conversation about the new Journal of Higher Education in Prison, the Jamii Sisterhood, the States of Incarceration Project, and being a Black woman abolitionist in the discipline of Criminal Justice raises several pressing questions: how does one define an academic field that seeks to abolish the need for that very field? How do Black women scholars enact political practices between academic institutions that reject them and carceral systems that would capture them? What is abolitionist pedagogy at a rural PWI in a county and region structured by their carceral warehousing of Black and Brown people? How are Black women made hyper (in)visible by academia and by American society? Listen in as we engage these and related issues.  Requests for texts for us to discuss? Dreams for us to interpret? Advice questions for us to answer? Email us at alwaysalreadypodcast AT gmail DOT com. Subscribe on iTunes or Spotify. Follow us on Twitter. Like our Facebook page. RSS feed here. Patreon here. Thanks to Bad Infinity for the intro music, “Post Digital,” from their album FutureCommons; always already thanks to B for the outro music. For the mp3 of the episode click here.   Links: Dr. Breea Willingham on twitter and at the Jamii Sisterhood Volume I, Issue 1 of the Journal of Higher Education in Prison The Jamii Sisterhood on facebook, including the announcement of their Spring 2022 symposiumSUNY Plattsburgh’s contribution to States of Incarceration, “Cuffs to Classroom: College in Prison — How Can Higher Education Redefine Mass Incarceration in New York’s North Country“; Mountain Lake PBS coverage of the exhibitionWillingham’s TedXArcadia talk, “Blinded By My Black Skin: The Hyper (In)visibility of Black Women“ Photo courtesy of Dr. Breea Willingham

In this episode, John is joined by his colleague, <a href="https://www.plattsburgh.edu/academics/schools/arts-sciences/criminal-justice/faculty/willingham-breea.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Dr. Breea Willingham</a>, to discuss her multiple forms of work on higher education in prisons, both within and without academia. Their conversation about the new <a href="https://www.higheredinprison.org/journal-of-higher-education-in-prison" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Journal of Higher Education in Prison</a>, the <a href="https://jamiisisterhood.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Jamii Sisterhood</a>, the <a href="https://statesofincarceration.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">States of Incarceration Project</a>, and being a Black woman abolitionist in the discipline of Criminal Justice raises several pressing questions: how does one define an academic field that seeks to abolish the need for that very field? How do Black women scholars enact political practices between academic institutions that reject them and carceral systems that would capture them? What is abolitionist pedagogy at a rural PWI in a county and region structured by their carceral warehousing of Black and Brown people? How are Black women made hyper (in)visible by academia and by American society? Listen in as we engage these and related issues. Requests for texts for us to discuss? Dreams for us to interpret? Advice questions for us to answer? Email us at alwaysalreadypodcast AT gmail DOT com. Subscribe <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/always-already-podcast-episodes/id879272845" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">on iTunes</a> or <a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/4lxaZcDaRfixw9qtUfHO1g" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Spotify</a>. Follow us on <a href="https://twitter.com/AlwaysAlreadyOn" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Twitter</a>. Like <a href="https://www.facebook.com/alwaysalreadypodcast" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">our Facebook page</a>. RSS feed <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/alwaysalreadypodcast" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">here</a>. Patreon <a href="https://www.patreon.com/alwaysalreadypodcast" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">here</a>. Thanks to <a href="https://soundcloud.com/badinfinity" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Bad Infinity</a> for the intro music, “Post Digital,” from their album <a href="https://soundcloud.com/badinfinity/sets/futurecommons" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">FutureCommons</a>; always already thanks to B for the outro music. For the mp3 of the episode click <a href="https://alwaysalreadypodcast.files.wordpress.com/2021/09/willingham-1.mp3" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">here</a>. Links: <ul><li>Dr. Breea Willingham on <a href="https://twitter.com/drbwillingham?lang=en" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">twitter</a> and at the <a href="https://jamiisisterhood.com/jet/dr-breea-willingham/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Jamii Sisterhood</a> </li><li><a href="https://www.higheredinprison.org/jhep-issue/1-1" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Volume I, Issue 1</a> of the Journal of Higher Education in Prison </li><li>The Jamii Sisterhood <a href="https://www.facebook.com/jamiisisterhood/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">on facebook</a>, including the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/jamiisisterhood/posts/394596538986531" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">announcement of their Spring 2022 symposium</a></li><li>SUNY Plattsburgh’s contribution to States of Incarceration, “<a href="https://statesofincarceration.org/states/new-york-cuffs-classroom-college-prison" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Cuffs to Classroom: College in Prison — How Can Higher Education Redefine Mass Incarceration in New York’s North Country</a>“; Mountain Lake PBS <a href="https://mountainlake.org/states-of-incarceration/?fbclid=IwAR3xgInqYhfO57AYtf7ilzxKQ6a22e--65yEEmu5wZpl92PZV95r8xfGL_U" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">coverage of the exhibition</a></li><li>Willingham’s TedXArcadia talk, “<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djmlHT9qtQE" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Blinded By My Black Skin: The Hyper (In)visibility of Black Women</a>“</li></ul> Photo courtesy of Dr. Breea Willingham

Interview: Breea Willingham on Incarceration, Higher Ed, and Abolition – Epistemic Unruliness 37

Matt Vogel

Rama Kothapalli

To commemorate the one year anniversary of the podcast, for the next month we'll be talking to scholars about how the past several months have shaped them as we start the new semester. Several of our guests do have tenure, but these times dictate amplifying as many voices as possible. These episodes will be part of a larger project, title TBD, bringing scholars together to discuss issues facing the profession.    You can follow today's guests on Twitter... Dr. Kothapalli is @OUFYRE Dr. Vogel is @MattVogel311 Dr. Willingham is @DrBWillingham and the show is @UntenuredTracks

To commemorate the one year anniversary of the podcast, for the next month we'll be talking to scholars about how the past several months have shaped them as we start the new semester. Several of our guests do have tenure, but these times dictate amplifying as many voices as possible. These episodes will be part of a larger project, title TBD, bringing scholars together to discuss issues facing the profession. You can follow today's guests on Twitter... Dr. Kothapalli is <a href="https://twitter.com/OUFYRE" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">@OUFYRE</a> Dr. Vogel is <a href="https://twitter.com/MattVogel311" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">@MattVogel311</a> Dr. Willingham is <a href="https://twitter.com/DrBWillingham" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">@DrBWillingham</a> and the show is <a href="https://twitter.com/UntenuredTracks" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">@UntenuredTracks</a>

E48: Teaching and Scholarship in the Pandemic (part 1 of 4) (w/ Dr. Rama Kothapalli, Dr. Matt Vogel & Dr. Breea Willingham)

This week I talk with Dr. Breea Willingham from SUNY-Plattsburgh about her work on incarceration. You can follow her on Twitter @DrBWillingham and the show at @UntenuredTracks

This week I talk with Dr. Breea Willingham from SUNY-Plattsburgh about her work on incarceration. You can follow her on Twitter <a href="http://twitter.com/DrBWillingham" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">@DrBWillingham</a> and the show at <a href="http://twitter.com/UntenuredTracks" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">@UntenuredTracks</a>

E22: Stories of Incarceration (w/ Dr. Breea Willingham)

Dr. Breea Willingham joins the Beyond Prisons podcast to discuss her prison research, her writing workshops with incarcerated women, and her experiences as someone with family directly impacted by the system. Dr. Willingham talks about how her experiences inform her work despite the traditional resistance of the academy to approaches that are not considered "objective"—even if it is highly relevant to the research. We talk about the farce of objectivity in both academia and journalism, and the need to put forward the perspective of people directly impacted by a particular subject. We also examine Dr. Willingham's work regarding writing programs for incarcerated women. She talks about her research, in which educated, white, middle and upper-middle class women instructors were forced to negotiate their race and class privilege in their workshops, and their reactions upon finding that their students were human beings, too. We also touch on how some activism and scholarship approaches incarceration voyeuristically, treating other people's misery as a curiosity or source of inspiration. She discusses how writing workshops are liberating for incarcerated women and provide a way for them to resist their confinement, providing one of the few therapeutic opportunities for women to share and work through the trauma that so often paves their paths to prison. Dr. Breea Willingham is an Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice at Plattsburgh State University of New York. She worked as a newspaper reporter covering crime and education for 10 years before entering academia. Dr. Willingham's research areas/interests include: Black women’s prison writings, higher education in prison, Black women and police violence, the impact of incarceration on Black families and children, and women in the criminal justice system. She is currently writing a book about teaching and writing in women’s prisons. Visit Dr. Willingham's website: breeacwillingham.weebly.com Follow Dr. Willingham on Twitter: @drbreewill Support our show and join us on Patreon. Please listen, subscribe, and rate/review our podcast on iTunes and on Google Play Sign up for the Beyond Prisons newsletter to receive updates on new episodes, important news and events, and more. Send tips, comments, and questions to beyondprisonspodcast@gmail.com Follow us on Twitter: @Beyond_Prison @phillyprof03 @bsonenstein @jaybeware Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/beyondprisonspodcast/ Music &amp; Production: Jared Ware

Dr. Breea Willingham joins the Beyond Prisons podcast to discuss her prison research, her writing workshops with incarcerated women, and her experiences as someone with family directly impacted by the system. Dr. Willingham talks about how her experiences inform her work despite the traditional resistance of the academy to approaches that are not considered "objective"—even if it is highly relevant to the research. We talk about the farce of objectivity in both academia and journalism, and the need to put forward the perspective of people directly impacted by a particular subject. We also examine Dr. Willingham's work regarding writing programs for incarcerated women. She talks about her research, in which educated, white, middle and upper-middle class women instructors were forced to negotiate their race and class privilege in their workshops, and their reactions upon finding that their students were human beings, too. We also touch on how some activism and scholarship approaches incarceration voyeuristically, treating other people's misery as a curiosity or source of inspiration. She discusses how writing workshops are liberating for incarcerated women and provide a way for them to resist their confinement, providing one of the few therapeutic opportunities for women to share and work through the trauma that so often paves their paths to prison. Dr. Breea Willingham is an Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice at Plattsburgh State University of New York. She worked as a newspaper reporter covering crime and education for 10 years before entering academia. Dr. Willingham's research areas/interests include: Black women’s prison writings, higher education in prison, Black women and police violence, the impact of incarceration on Black families and children, and women in the criminal justice system. She is currently writing a book about teaching and writing in women’s prisons. Visit Dr. Willingham's website: <a href="http://breeacwillingham.weebly.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">breeacwillingham.weebly.com</a> Follow Dr. Willingham on Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/drbreewill" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">@drbreewill</a> Support our show and <a href="https://patreon.com/beyondprisons" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">join us on Patreon</a>. Please listen, subscribe, and rate/review <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/beyond-prisons-podcast/id1225051999" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">our podcast on iTunes</a> and on <a href="https://playmusic.app.goo.gl/?ibi=com.google.PlayMusic&amp;isi=691797987&amp;ius=googleplaymusic&amp;link=https://play.google.com/music/m/Ihfhyo33hcpgwhmequkkgmefmde?t%3DBeyond_Prisons%26pcampaignid%3DMKT-na-all-co-pr-mu-pod-16" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Google Play</a> Sign up for the <a href="http://eepurl.com/cQECub" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Beyond Prisons newsletter</a> to receive updates on new episodes, important news and events, and more. Send tips, comments, and questions to <a href="mailto:beyondprisonspodcast@gmail.com">beyondprisonspodcast@gmail.com</a> Follow us on Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/beyond_prison" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">@Beyond_Prison</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/phillyprof03" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">@phillyprof03</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/bsonenstein" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">@bsonenstein</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/jaybeware" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">@jaybeware</a> Like us on Facebook: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/beyondprisonspodcast/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/beyondprisonspodcast/</a> Music &amp; Production: <a href="https://twitter.com/jaybeware" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Jared Ware</a>