
Whatever your story was, does not define what it is.
At it’s core, advocacy is an act of recognition and empathy.
Criminalization and punishment are threaded into the fabric of the United States. The prison system in place focuses on overzealous policing, god-like prosecutorial power, and inhumane punishment. Re/Creation employs storytelling with the means to advocate for the men and women impacted by the carceral apparatus.
Construct.
The presence of a criminal record crystallizes an imposed identity of an incarcerated person. In order to best understand each person, we must construct their stories through the lens of humanization.
Advocate.
The natural progression after fully understanding a person’s story is to integrate our resources into a form of advocacy that reclaims the power of the individual - no matter stage of incarceration this person and their family is in.
“The United States is addicted to incarceration”
— John Proctor, Dispatches of the Carceral Apparatus