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Notes
1 Gready uses Foucault’s theory “power of writing” to argue that prison writing acts against dominant narratives used to objectify and subjugate incarcerated individuals, thereby creating their own “power of writing” (492) as a form of self-empowerment.
2 The Clarion was shortened to just Clarion during its run. The exact date and reasons for the change are not known.
3 This issue of editorial intervention was a point of contention for the women of Through the Looking Glass. According to Donna L. Rowe’s source “Jane,” the team ranged from four to fifteen contributors per issue and “were always struggling as a group with our politics and our stances” including debates around literacy: “There was all this judgment about what somebody’s written. Or if they’ve written it well enough. … I had just learned to read back then. I started on this newsletter before I could read it. So there were always issues around that. And I’d say ‘well I can read it, it must be all right! What’s the matter with it?’” Donna L. Rowe 82.
4 For more detailed information on the status of transgender prisoners in the United States, see Sexton et al., “Where the Margins Meet”; Routh et al., “Transgender Inmates in Prisons.”
5 This is not to say that all transgender women in prison feel this same sense of community or view each other as similar or equals, but rather Sexton and Jenness’s study shows that the women they interviewed overwhelmingly felt commonality with other transgender prisoners rather than the prison population at large.
6 The collection held at the Wisconsin Historical Society contains copies of DAWN and The New Dawn from 1980 to 1987. However, as these start at Vol. 3 No. 15, there are a number of editions that come before and potentially after these that I have not been able to find.