Unlocking the Voices of Incarcerated Women | Ellen Stackable | TEDxTulsaCC

The Poetic Justice program uses poetry to empower incarcerated women in Oklahoma. Ellen Stackable takes us on a journey behind bars to hear the voices and stories of these women in her emotional talk. Does poetry have the power to change lives? These poet warriors say it does.

Ellen Stackable is the Executive Director of Poetic Justice, an organization that teaches creative writing to incarcerated women. Ellen Stackable has taught English and writing for over fifteen years at Tulsa School of Arts and Sciences. While pursuing her master’s degree in Liberal Studies at the University of Oklahoma, she became aware of the issue of mass incarceration of women in Oklahoma. In March of 2014, she helped start Poetic Justice, working with incarcerated women at the Tulsa County Jail. Poetic Justice classes give a voice to the voiceless and empower women to change as they engage in self-reflective, therapeutic writing.

[SpiralsAreAlive]

Hope everything is still going good, she taught English my freshman year of high school

[seebothways]

What ever happened to not justifying men who Abuse women. Who wait it's women getting the sympathy. I while look at prostective and Femaling of violent men