#TalkJustice Video Poems
These Video poems were created by Dáminí Awóyígà @daminicreatives based on stories provided to the #TalkJustice Project. Participants in the project were asked to tell a story to convey their experience with the justice system. The poems use the exact wording of the stories that they gave us and have the same title as chosen by the original storyteller.
Not Like Me
Not like me over representation of minorities in the criminal justice system.
Justice
People who are already marginalized are further penalized and criminalized for choices they make out of necessity and as last resorts very little consideration is made for people’s circumstances and how things affect them and little help is offered to help heal harms done to them and only focus on harms they may have caused.
Court
Case where my friend was in jail for over a year and I didn’t know anything about advocating for justice two week trial Supreme Court every day mother in hysterics brutal traumatic in court blizzard and he was convicted of murder the pain the sentencing was terrible I remember lying in bed with intense anxiety.