Select slides from Dr. Michele Lise Tarter's lecture entitled The Pen and The Penitentiary.

1. The Pen and The
Penitentiary
Michele Lise Tarter
The College of New Jersey

2. “And where the words of women are crying to be heard, we
must each of us recognize our responsibility to seek those words out,
to read them and share them and examine them in their pertinence
to our lives. That we not hide behind the mockeries of separation
that have been imposed upon us and which so often we accept as
our own…
…The fact that we are here and that I speak these words is an
attempt to break that silence and bridge some of those differences
between us, for it is not difference which immobilizes us, but silence.
And there are so many silences to be broken.”
--Audre Lorde,
“The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action”

3. The Concrete Womb,
The Living Tomb

4. Shakedown
Countdown
Lockdown