workweek reading recs (5 May 2025)

[matsushima]

Good morning and happy Monday!

• Reading Behind Bars, and Beyond Barriers (2025/04)
• The Girl in the Kent State Photo (2021/04)
  tw: police violence, gun violence, photo of a dead body
• When a Child’s Life Becomes the Family Business (2025/04)
• Rewriting the Relationship Between Elephant and Keeper (2025/04)
• Fiction: To Hurt a Haunted House, by Stephanie Wytovich
• Podcast: Behind the Bastards: That Time the British Did a Genocide in Ireland (Part 1)

Two nonprofits this week: CD Books to Prisons is the nonprofit highlighted in the first article. There's also the Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop for incarcerated people in MN.

Comments

[haunted_cherries]

Happy Monday, and thanks for posting these!! I ESPECIALLY enjoyed "To Hurt a Haunted House"!!

Also "Reading Behind Bars" really put a LOT of stuff into perspective for me about what's going on on the inside. Thanks so much for sharing it. ; u;