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Girlhood Arrested

How Girlhood is Shaped by the Carceral Landscape in Louisiana

2025

What began as a zine and self-publishing workshop with The Visiting Room Project (TVRP), was developed into a 254 page book. This book, Girlhood Arrested, is a reflection on the Girlhood Zine Workshop, dualities of carcerality/punishment and play/resistance, the possibilities of girlhood as an organizing construct of self outside of incarceration, and is a transhistorical engagement with the archival gaps of women's lives and stories.

We hope that Girlhood Arrested and the memories embedded within it serve as an example of the importance of girlhood as a site of analysis in memory work and in our collective struggles against incarceration, gender-based violence, and racial capitalism.

This project is a collaboration with Kennedi Johnson, the participants, and would not be possible without the support of the RISD Maharam Fellowship.