#9 Trauma, Criminality & The Prison Industrial Complex with Ashleigh Carter

A Millennial's Guide to Saving the World

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#9 Trauma, Criminality & The Prison Industrial Complex with Ashleigh Carter

Anya Kaats

Jan 19, 2019

Ashleigh is a magnificent human with an incredible story. From surviving childhood trauma to being in prison to raising her two daughters on her own, there are few people that inspire me more. Ashleigh and I discuss the nature of criminality, what it's like to be a woman in prison, the role of childhood trauma in shaping our lives and much more.

Find Ashleigh on Instagram - @mediocritymurderer

Ashleigh's book recommendation: The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander & Revolutionary Suicide by Huey P. Newton

Song featured: "Increasing Obviousness" by Hang Massive

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A Millennial's Guide to Saving the World

I started this podcast because I was tired of being stereotyped as lazy, triggered and entitled. I wanted to give voice to a different kind of millennial and invite us to write a new story - one of a generation willing to challenge the status quo, embrace nuance and paradox, and reject PC-culture. This podcast isn’t about finding answers, it’s about asking the right questions. How can we reinvent ourselves and the narratives we’ve been expected to inherit? How can we take ownership over the ways we participate in our own suffering? How can we move beyond victimization and into empowerment? How can we fix ourselves to fix the world? It’s time for new dreams, new stories and new futures…

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