Survived & Punished: Meet Tracy McCarter, a Nurse Jailed, Then Cleared, for Stabbing Abusive Husband
Democracy Now, October 2, 2023
In her first broadcast interview, we speak with Tracy McCarter, a nurse and grandmother who was jailed after her abusive husband, a white man, died of a stab wound when she defended herself during an altercation. McCarter, who is Black, describes being a criminalized survivor of both domestic violence and the criminal legal system. More here.

When Women’s Survival is Criminalized
The Takeaway, WNYC, January 13, 2023
Alisa Bierria is interviewed by host, Melissa Harris-Perry, about criminalized survival. More here.

Safety Planning and Intimate Partner Violence: A Toolkit for Survivors and Supporters

April 5, 2022
What can concrete support for intimate partner violence survivors look like from a prison abolitionist perspective? What can it look like in practice to support survivors while being acutely aware of both the dangers of abuse and the overwhelming violence of the criminal legal system? This lively webinar launched the toolkit, Safety Planning and Intimate Partner Violence: A Toolkit for Survivors and Supporters, and explored the concept of “abolitionist safety planning” from feminists and abolitionists, who will share their experiences, challenges, and lessons learned from supporting survivors in situations of active and ongoing violence.

DEFENDING SELF-DEFENSE: A CALL TO ACTION BY SURVIVED & PUNISHED

In honor of Tewkunzi Green
Thursday, March 3, 2022
Survivors of domestic and sexual violence who defend themselves are systemically targeted for punishment by the legal system. This special webinar celebrates the launch of “Defending Self-Defense,” a community-based, survivor-centered research report that identifies key patterns in the criminalization of self-defense and recommendations to transform the conditions of criminalized survival.

In this virtual workshop, participants learn about the work of Survived and Punished, a national collective committed to ending the criminalization of survival. The session introduces participants to the collective’s analysis and vision, survivor solidarity actions, and the #FreeThemAll commutations campaign. Resource list: bit.ly/DefendingSurvivorsResources

Presenter: Mariame Kaba is co-founder of Survived and Punished, founder/director of Project NIA, and Researcher-in-Residence at the Barnard Center for Research on Women, where she co-leads an initiative called Interrupting Criminalization: Research in Action.

Don’t miss this powerful discussion by abolitionist feminists about how white supremacy and criminalization shape the experiences of gendered racial violence for Asian people. This event was organized by Haymarket Books and features Survived & Punished members and friends. More details.

#SocialBridging: Letterwriting as Freedom Work with Love & Protect, Rachel Caidor and Deana Lewis, October 28, 2020. Visit S&P’s Letter Writing Action Center for more information about writing letters to incarcerated survivors.

Interference Archive interviewed Survived and Punished NY, a coalition of defense campaigns and grassroots groups committed to eradicating the criminalization of survivors of domestic and sexual violence, and the culture of violence that contributes to it. This radio interview features two members of the S&P New York chapter, Will Willis and Maureen Silverman.

This interview is part of a series of Interference Archives interviews with S&P NY members, with a focus on incarcerated survivors.

• Audio Interference 77.2: Archiving Abolition – Jessica Paradiso
• Audio Interference 77.3: Archiving Abolition—Andrea Benson
• Audio Interference 77.4 Archiving Abolition—Annette Farrell
• Audio Interference 77.5: Archiving Abolition—Alisha Walker
• Audio Interference 77.6: Archiving Abolition—A Quarter of a Century

Incarcerated survivor, Tomiekia Johnson, speaks about the criminalization of survivors of domestic violence and the systemic racism of criminalization. Audio from The Guardian article, “‘Governor, let me see my kids before I die’: pressure mounts to release elderly women from prisons.” 

Sign and circulate Tomiekia’s petition!

Survived & Punished 2019 Convening Keynote Panels

Not Another Victim — I’m An Empowered Survivor Defendant | Marissa Alexander | TEDxFSCJ

Webinar: How to Apply for a Commutation and AB 2845

There Are Thousands of Cyntoia Browns: Mariame Kaba on Criminalization of Sexual Violence Survivors, Democracy Now

Ny Nourn, Survived & Punished, TEDxPeacePlaza, 2018, more info

Valerie Seeley, #FreeThemNY, 2018, more info

Audio: Delete Your Account Podcast w/ guest, Mariame Kaba, May 3, 2018, more info

Survived & Punished co-founder, Mariame Kaba, was interviewed for the podcast, Beyond Prisons, by hosts Brian Sonenstein and Kim Wilson. Mariame discusses the campaign to free Bresha Meadows, a teenage girl who killed her abusive father and was detained while facing the possibility of trial as an adult and a lifetime of incarceration, and the S&P tool kit designed to support people to organize defense campaigns to free criminalized survivors like Bresha. Podcast published on January 5, 2018, link includes audio and transcript.

Video (Part 1 & Part 2): Rachel Caidor & Colby Lenz, Prevent Connect interview, 2017, more info

Video: Criminalized Survivor Panel featuring Nan-Hui Jo, Marissa Alexander, Cherelle Baldwin and Bella Robinson. Moderated by Andrea Ritchie. No Perfect Victims Convening, Allied Media Conference, 2017

Audio: Beth Richie: Free Marissa as Anti-Violence/Prison Abolition Activism; Standing Our Ground Week, Jacksonville, FL, ​July 29, 2014