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Diana Johns
@crimsonchat24.bsky.social
Twitter refugee @unimelbcrim • prison/post-prison • children/young people + ‘justice’ • relationality • ubuntu • coproduction • @JYPnetwork • @DurhamIAS Fellow • @IncarcerationJ

I live, work & play on Bunurong/Boonwurrung & Wurundjeri lands, Kulin Country
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From Disposable Human @haveachattabs
March 3, 2025 at 10:42 AM
From Disposable Human @haveachattabs
March 3, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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And "the failure to hear, and listen to the voices of others amounts to ‘testimonial oppression’ (Fricker, 2007). I propose that tackling epistemic injustice in confinement necessitates academic partnering with survivors, to coproduce new ways of knowing."
November 23, 2024 at 4:12 PM
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@IndigoDaya writes: "I bring a lived experience/survivor perspective ...[to] experiences of epistemic confinement, where people's personal truth can be locked up inside the dominance of biogenetic psychiatric narratives which frame distress as ‘mental illness’."
November 23, 2024 at 4:04 PM
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And a reassuring call for academics' role to "tell it like it is", to work continuously to expose injustice, "to find the militant middle between riots...and weak and timid supplication for justice", to “be aggressive but nonviolent".
November 24, 2024 at 12:13 AM