The Digital Carceral Body

It is not enough to remain siloed in academia, as a scholar Ariel is dedicated to collaborating with communities across her research and academic work. This is reflected in her current community-engaged, digital humanities project with women who have been incarcerated. The Digital Carceral Body Multiple is a community-engaged project that sets out to intervene in the epistemologies of mass incarceration by placing current risk assessments such as the Texas Risk Assessment System (TRAS) in their historical context and offers further resistance to carceral essentialization through works of art, creative writing, and oral histories from women who have experienced incarceration. The result will be an interactive digital platform connected to the archive that holds the full-text materials.