Screening In Her Shoes at Tufts University was one of the most important things we have done to educate people about both the causes and impact of incarceration on women in particular. This beautiful film shows us without flinching the harm of both childhood sexual assault and intimate partner violence and how these experiences can lead directly to incarceration, compounding the trauma these women experience. At the same time, In Her Shoes tackles this difficult subject with love, empowering the mostly incarcerated women in the film as speakers, writers, and artists able to tell their own stories and thus to enact their own form of resistance and healing.
Hilary Binda , Ph.d
Founding Director, Tufts University Prison Initiative of Tisch College;
Director, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
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