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Personal correspondence, books, magazines, and literature are powerful ways people connect with each other. Without sharing thoughts with others, people are isolated in our own consciousness. Paradoxically, prisons see human connection–the basis of human society–as dangerous. They limit what people can read and whom people inside can engage with. This collage makes visible some of the justifications for censorship, which is enacted behind the veil of barbed wire and cement walls. Like these physical structures, censorship silences incarcerated voices and prevents the rest of us from knowing what ideas incarcerated people are allowed to read, what thoughts they’re permitted to share and the lived realities they are authorized to acknowledge. Copies of denial forms, appeal forms and other prison paperwork that create the bureaucratic barrier to communication are interspersed with excerpts from narratives submitted by incarcerated people explaining their struggles with censorship. Many official forms are originals although they were scanned and scans have been kept in order to maintain documentation. Elements from censored mail are also included: envelopes that record the reasons for rejection, images of “return to sender” stamps that demand the post office return these materials, undelivered.  The images of the book turning into a bird evoke the liberation reading offers. Stories and connections with others are the only escape incarcerated people have. Denying these fleeting, quiet and introspective moments should not be the focus.  Why are books the danger? Paper on canvas. Glue and gold leaf. by Araya Ratanaphruks and Moira Marquis https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/665467cfeb0de87f657a03cd/bbcb3193-f1c5-479e-91e5-f4096814a3d8/20230808_114717.jpg Prison Banned Books Week https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/665467cfeb0de87f657a03cd/e5073753-ad2f-45da-b6cd-56d024f44d43/20230808_114701.jpg Prison Banned Books Week https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/665467cfeb0de87f657a03cd/c13a0d74-b0e1-4ab8-91f5-3c36169d55dd/20230808_114654.jpg Prison Banned Books Week The collage on this page, Grieved, was part of "Return to Sender: Prison as Censorship," an exhibit on carceral censorship curated by Mariame Kaba during the inaugural Prison Banned Books Week in 2023. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/665467cfeb0de87f657a03cd/32963b2d-c3b9-4082-99ee-5a2b039093a0/20230808_114707.jpg Prison Banned Books Week https://www.saxapahawprisonbooks.org/martin-sostre-fund daily 0.75 2025-04-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/665467cfeb0de87f657a03cd/ddbfa8a4-a5ae-424d-9fac-7810228369f3/Sostre_CE174-scaled.jpg Martin Sostre Fund https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/665467cfeb0de87f657a03cd/33900fe9-9436-464a-86f1-c0d4d13bec06/Screenshot+2024-05-27+at+10.08.30%E2%80%AFAM.png Martin Sostre Fund https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/665467cfeb0de87f657a03cd/fcca3221-a920-46a2-be53-be1fe509ab33/Screenshot+2024-05-27+at+10.08.42%E2%80%AFAM.jpg Martin Sostre Fund