“we really wanted to make this itinerary, so that people would see the city through this lens of both [the] horrible things that happened and the struggle of people who fought against it...'
, and Devon Terrell. Viewers can watch and read the poems, and then submit their own work in response to the four prompts that accompany them.
And to do this, Betts and Weathersby say they created stories that go past soundbites and statistics to relate the experiences of real people. Part of that has been to create counternarratives in the work that actively humanizes people who are incarcerated. “When I chose the poem that I shot with David, I really was thinking about how that story, in particular, is really important to me—not just because I lived it, but because I think a lot of people assume that if you interact with people in the prison system, you’re in danger, or that you’re going to meet people who are just vicious and cruel,” Betts says. “And I think what you discover is that you can meet people who are vital and beautiful and intelligent and funny and engaging.
“We recognize that everybody has a unique experience and a unique set of experiences and a unique perspective and a unique set of skills to contribute to what we hope is a collective questioning and collective imagination about what could exist instead,” Beachy says. “Because we imagined the system that we have now—it wasn’t like a default that mankind was born into—we imagined our way into this, we can imagine our way into something else, and everybody has a role to play in that.
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