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Love Is in the Airwaves: Contesting Mass Incarceration with Prisoners' Radio Tapestries: Interwoven voices of local and global identities Volume 7 Issue 1 Breaking the Shackles of Silence: Knowledge Production as Activism and Article 7 Resistance 2018 Love is in the Airwaves: Contesting Mass Incarceration with Prisoners' Radio Eleanor R. Benson Macalester College, [email protected] Keywords: prisoners' radio, community media, mass incarceration, criminal justice reform, radical love, community building, bell hooks Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.macalester.edu/tapestries Recommended Citation Benson, Eleanor R. (2018) "Love is in the Airwaves: Contesting Mass Incarceration with Prisoners' Radio," Tapestries: Interwoven voices of local and global identities: Vol. 7 : Iss. 1 , Article 7. Available at: https://digitalcommons.macalester.edu/tapestries/vol7/iss1/7 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the American Studies Department at DigitalCommons@Macalester College. It has been accepted for inclusion in Tapestries: Interwoven voices of local and global identities by an authorized editor of DigitalCommons@Macalester College. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Love is in the Airwaves: Contesting Mass Incarceration with Prisoners’ Radio Eleanor R. Benson Everyone has their favorite nighttime ritual. broadcast every Friday night during The ​ Mine usually involves a cup of tea with a Prison Show, a Houston-based community ​ podcast or a Spotify playlist, but tonight I radio program made specifically for prisoners listen to something completely different. As I and their loved ones. As of 2012, the program plug in my earbuds and tune out the world reached one-sixth of the total incarcerated around me for a few hours, thousands of folks population in Texas, amounting to tens of a thousand miles south do the same. We all thousands of people behind bars.2 hear the same woman’s soft southern drawl: Several states away, another community radio station devotes their This message is going out for Jeremy. I’m just calling to check in with you. I’m Monday nights to prisoners across the doing good, I had a good week at work. I coalfields. Broadcasting from Whitesburg, Kentucky, WMMT-FM 88.7’s Calls From Home got a letter from you yesterday asking ​ about those shoes that come out on transmits loving messages to incarcerated Sunday…I’ll tell you what they look like. people in over a dozen prisons, jails, and They’re white with a top piece and the detention centers across Kentucky, Virginia, shoelaces [are] black. I don’t like them, and West Virginia.3 Calls From Home and but I’m sure you will. I’ll go ahead and ​ get them for you…I love you and I miss WMMT-FM’s broader media initiative, Restorative Radio, revolutionize how loved you and I’m counting down the days for ​ you to come home…Know that you’re ones interact in the destructive age of mass 1 always in my heart and on my mind. incarceration through video, radio, and media In many ways, this message feels mundane training tools.4 One particularly innovative project is Restorative Radio: Audio Postcards, and perhaps even familiar: an attentive ​ ​ mother looking out for her kid, anxiously which airs long-form radio pieces created by awaiting the day that he will be home for a prisoners’ families using professional audio visit. She just wants to make her son happy— equipment. These 10 to 45 minute pieces aim to “capture sounds, voices and music from even if she does not approve of his fashion ​ sense. From the warmness in her voice and 2 the earnestness in her closing words, there is Carrie Feibel, “'The Prison Show' Helps Texas Inmates Find Escape,” NPR, 16 Jan. 2012, ​ ​ no questioning the love she feels for her child. https://www.npr.org/2012/01/16/144970513/the-prison-sh ow-helps-texas-inmates-find-escape. But beyond the surface, this is no 3 Rose Hackman, “Calls From Home: The Radio Show That Connects Inmates and Their Loved Ones,” The Guardian, 23 typical mother-son relationship. Jeremy’s ​ ​ March 2016, message is one of dozens of shout-outs that https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2016/mar/23 /calls-from-home-wmmt-kentucky-prison-inmates-family-f riends. 1 “The Prison Show,” 90.1 KPFT, accessed April 2018, 4 “About Restorative Radio,” Restorative Radio, accessed April ​ ​ ​ ​ http://kpft.org/programming/newstalk/prison-show/. 2018, http://www.restorativeradio.org/about/. Tapestries | Spring 2018 1 • LOVE IS IN THE AIRWAVES ​ELEANOR R. BENSON ​ home” to invite incarcerated people back into expressions allows prisoners and their 5 the lives of their loved ​ones. These one-sided advocates on the outside to actively challenge interactions are purely metaphysical and the dehumanization of prisoners. By bridging marked by the absence of the incarcerated a diverse and distant listening base— person, but they nonetheless strengthen prisoners and their loved ones, individuals loving relationships which are too often who stumble across the shows while scrolling devastated by prison. through the stations, and people from across From Southeast Texas to the heart of the country who tune in through the Appalachia, the preferred bedtime ritual for online live streams—prisoner-oriented radio thousands of incarcerated men and women programs rooted in an ethic of love play an involves tuning into The Prison Show and Calls essential role in building community that ​ ​ From Home using a Sony SRF-39FP, a personal traverses prison walls. ​ analog radio ubiquitous in American prisons. In this article, I explore the ​ The radio’s transparent body, meant to intersections of prison, radio, community, and discourage prisoners from smuggling love through an analysis of The Prison Show ​ contraband, displays a single AA battery which and Restorative Radio. I argue that prisoners ​ ​ boasts an impressive 40 listening hours. Even and their loved ones appropriate the radio to though newer digital models and MP3 players perform public and revolutionary acts of love, exist in some prison commissaries, the countering the oppressive forces of mass SRF-39FP costs significantly less than other incarceration in the United States. By audio devices (at under $30) and runs the unapologetically positioning their love for longest—awarding it the name “the iPod of incarcerated people front and center, prison.”6 ordinary Americans—mothers, fathers, Radio projects like The Prison Show and siblings, kids, spouses, and neighbors—subvert ​ Restorative Radio have significant impacts that racist and classist structures in our society resonate well beyond the family networks of which mark prisoners as incapable and the incarcerated. For members of the broader unworthy of love. By bearing witness to these community—particularly those of us without public pronouncements of love, those of us personal connections to the prison system— whose lives remain otherwise untouched by these shows grant the unique privilege mass incarceration have no choice but to of hearing public displays of fiercely accept the humanity of people behind bars. unapologetic love for incarcerated people. From a sense of shared humanity stems Love is an intrinsic marker of humanity, so the solidarity and positive change. deliberately public nature of these heartfelt Moving forward, I first address my own positionality7 and personal interest in 5 “Audio Postcards,” Restorative Radio, accessed April 2018, ​ ​ http://www.restorativeradio.org/audio-postcards-2/. 7 As Maher and Tetreault describe in “Frames of Positionality: ​ ​ ​ 6 Feibel, “'The Prison Show'”; Joshua Hunt, “The iPod of Constructing Meaningful Dialogue about Gender and Race,” Prison,” The New Yorker, 19 June, 2017, “positionality” refers to how “gender, race, class and other ​ ​ https://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/the-ipod-of- aspects of our identities are markers of relational positions prison. rather than essential qualities. Knowledge is valid when it Tapestries | Spring 2018 2 • LOVE IS IN THE AIRWAVES ​ELEANOR R. BENSON ​ prisoners’ radio. Next, I unpack bell hooks’ our entire bodies—our bones, our conceptualization of love as a mode of innards vibrate, too, to sounds, and political resistance along with the ways that certainly to music—means that we are actually feeling similar sensations in our mass incarceration and mass media bodies at exactly the same time when undermine her vision of love. I then discuss we listen as a group. In part because of the potential of prisoners’ radio in bringing this physical response, listening often this vision to life. Finally, I delve into the inner imparts a sense of emotion stronger workings of The Prison Show and Restorative than that imparted by looking.8 ​ ​ Radio to explore how these programs foster This visceral reaction to radio listening almost love. ​ seems to transcend time and space. Hearing a Radio Love: A Personal Account familiar voice or song on the radio never fails to transport me to happy moments in my Growing up in a house where sound childhood, surrounded by love. was constantly emanating from my parents’ During a semester abroad in Peru, I had giant stereo in the living room, radio has the opportunity to investigate this connective always been an important part of my life. I was power of radio in an international context. familiar with A Prairie Home Companion ​ Through a community radio project called before I learned how to read or ride a bike. I Sisichakunaq Pukllaynin, I explored how could always count on waking up to Morning ​ ​ students at a predominantly indigenous Edition and coming home to All Things ​ ​ elementary school appropriate the radio to Considered after school. And between the talk affirm their personal, collective, and cultural shows, there was always music: classical, jazz, identities. Many of these children, some as folk, classic rock. In my family, radio listening young as five or six, immigrated to the city to was often a communal activity, something receive an education hours away from their shared at the dining table or in front of the families and home communities.
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