Self abnegation is the total denial of oneself—which is how Emile Suotonye Deweaver describes what it took to get paroled by a white supremacist institution that is about reproducing power hierarchies, not repair or rehabilitation. He writes about the experience (plus notes on shibari and Dungeons & Dragons) in his new book about surviving 21 years in the California prison system, Ghost in the Criminal Justice Machine.
Ghost in the Criminal Justice Machine
https://thenewpress.org/books/ghost-in-the-criminal-justice-machine/
Emile's Instagram
https://www.instagram.com/emilesuotonyedeweaver/
Previous episode with Emile on Gavin Newsom's 'Norway Model' for Prisons
https://episodes.fm/1653309103/episode/YzM1NzZmMjktNTQ5OC00NjhiLTliOTQtOGE2ZGU5ZjUxOWQxstice-machine/
Gavin Newsom's 'Norway Model' for Prisons (previous episode with Emile)
https://episodes.fm/1653309103/episode/YzM1NzZmMjktNTQ5OC00NjhiLTliOTQtOGE2ZGU5ZjUxOWQx
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