“A woman who got sent down, and wrote about it.”
In this podcast we explore the concept of “Othering”, and how humans connect / disconnect according to environment. I will take us through my lived experience of a women’s prison, and how I have reconnected to myself, and the outside world after my release, using movement.
I am an ex ballet dancer, exercise physiologist and ex prisoner. I diarised my time in a UK prison, documenting the behaviour of malefactor women forced into incredibly inhumane conditions.
Since my release, I have researched and studied the human psyche in adverse conditions, mostly through the exploration of movement. I spent fifteen years rehabbing clients suffering chronic pain from the neck down; and I now spend my time exploring how movement impacts us from the neck up.
Environment influences emotion: emotion informs behaviour and behaviour has consequences…
The consequence of my behaviour was a sixteen month prison sentence.
And what does lived experience of women’s prison look like, for you, the listener?
In Eastwood Park, self harm rocketed by 128% in twelve months, and four deaths in custody were swept under the carpet.
I documented countless abuses of power, physical and psychological assaults, but most of all, how women survive in the face of adversity.
Prison isn’t just the curtailment of freedom; it’s being disconnected from family, friends, communication with the outside world, work, and most devastatingly… human purpose. Without purpose, are we human?
I used exercise to keep myself sane, and alive. My body was the only thing I still had control over.
Becoming a statistic wasn’t an option. Because if I died, who would tell the story?
Everything you never knew, but need to know about women in prison. And what happens to the brain after it…
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