36 pages, including front and back covers quarter-size full color. Take a look at a small selection in this zine. Stuff Found in Books #1 Since most of our books are donated, we find some interesting things tucked between the pages.Bound Struggles A collection of poetry, stories, essays, and drawings by incarcerated women across the country, featuring an introduction by Chicago-based prison abolitionist Monica Cosby.(Our store is still open even though Chicago Zine Fest is over.) We’re featuring three zines at #CZF2020 and all are available at our online store. This year, Chicago Zine Fest is all online-you know why!-and we’re delighted to participate again in this celebration of small press and independent publishers. Thank you for caring about us in prison all these years. I pray all is well with each of you and your families. The challenges and uncertainties remain, of course, and we hope you’ll continue your support. Thank you to everyone who’s been with us in one way or the other in this difficult year-volunteering, donating money or books, amplifying us on social media, and more. And watch for more news about how we plan to do more in providing mutual aid to people in prison in 2021 and beyond. One bright spot amid the challenges has been adapting our processes in creative ways to help us do more within our current restraints. They have closed our library here at Folsom Women’s Facility due to And in August, October, and December, we made three large bulk deliveries to the women’s division of Cook County Jail in Chicago-approximately 600 books and 700 composition books in all. In addition, in the spring we provided 1,600 sets of composition books, crayon packs, and folders to the women at Logan Correctional Center in Illinois.
This year, we mailed 1,964 orders of books and composition books to women and trans people in prisons across the country. Will you please send me some books to read? At FCI Aliceville, we are currently quarantined-only out of our cells 1 hour a day to shower and use phones. With lockdowns prevalent in prisons across the country, books are both harder to come by for those inside and needed more than ever. After reopening, we had to cut the number of hours per week and the number of volunteers per shift. For half the year, from mid-March to mid-September, we had to close due to COVID-19.
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