Join the From Trauma to Transformation (T2T) Creative Writing Team as we discuss the project at Tia Chucha's. We are joined by Tia Chucha Co Founder and T2T Founder, Luis J. Rodriguez, Creative Writing instructors and mentors Kesau'c Hill and Ramiro Rodriguez, and T2T Coordinator, Rebecca Gomez. We share our views of the Prison Industrial Complex, the T2T program, and our testimony on the power of arts to transform lives in others, and in ourselves.
Trigger Warning: Trauma, Prison Industrial Complex, Suicide
From Trauma to Transformation project started at Tia Chucha's in 2018, and is inspired by the life long work of Luis J. Rodriguez who has been teaching Creative Writing to those most marginalized in the prison systems all over the world. T2T serves as a space to amplify the voices through the arts of those directly impacted by incarceration to bring movement for change not just for individual healing, but for our society's healing. This project was initially funded by the Arts for Justice Fund, a nationwide movement of organizers, activists, and artists who use the arts as a means to bring social change on the issue of mass incarceration. #Arts4Justice
Transcripts are accessible here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qSfTg6PFuM4qxeJ1jm6dG6uKWQQO4hQIPiU7S56xu2w/edit
Tia Chucha Bookstore
Check out the bookstore and support works like "Make a Poem Cry" A T2T poetry book coming out of Luis J. Rodriguez Creative Writing Class in Lancaster Prison. https://tia-chuchas.myshopify.com/collections/abolition
Visit Arts for Justice Fund here: https://artforjusticefund.org/
Tia Chucha Website: https://www.tiachucha.org/
