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Over 40 women in Townsville women’s prison have created a collective artwork through weaving workshops facilitated by Sisters Inside.

The framed artwork brings together dozens of individual woven pieces in a vibrant arrangement of colour, texture and form. Rounds, small baskets, a turtle, a butterfly and other woven shapes sit alongside and overlap one another, contributing to the collective creation of joy and healing.

For Sisters Inside, this work is grounded in relationships and in recognising women as people with knowledge to share.

#freeher

@debkilroy @art_by_tibbles @zigsta12 @rissavjeva @tabithalean

@kee.ahn @emmadonovan_music 🖤💛❤️

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Sign and share this new petition for the State of Queensland.

Link in bio above ☝🏾☝🏾☝🏾

#freeher
#endshackling

@thenationalnetwork_abolition
@debkilroy @art_by_tibbles @tabithalean @jontybush

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After the Federal Parliament rejected @senatorthorpe Bill to end the shackling of women during birth, @jontybush MP has launched an E-Petition to the Queensland parliament calling for the prohibition of the use of shackles, handcuffs and other restraints during childbirth.

If you live in Queensland, you can sign and share the petition - see link in our bio.

Let’s end the shackling of women during birth. #freeher #endshackling

@debkilroy @thenationalnetwork_abolition

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Sick leaders are a reflection of a sick society

#Women #children #leader #sick #mentallyunstable

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Reflections from today. Carceral feminists let us down.

It is profoundly disappointing that Labor and the LNP have voted against @senatorthorpe Bills to end the shackling of pregnant women and the strip-searching of children.

Let that sink in. In a country where governments speak loudly about ending violence against women and protecting children, when given the opportunity to take meaningful action to protect some of the most vulnerable people in our community, both major parties voted against these Bills.

Pregnant women should never have to give birth in shackles. Children should never have to endure the trauma and humiliation of being strip-searched.

#BangkokRules #AbolitionistFeminism #EndShackling #StopStripSearchingChildren #FreeHer

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Ending violence against women cannot be conditional on whether a woman is considered respectable, deserving or worthy of protection.

Human rights do not stop at the prison gate. Bodily autonomy does not disappear when a woman is imprisoned.

Children do not lose their right to dignity because the state has labelled them “offenders”.

If Labor and the LNP are serious about ending violence against women, they must be prepared to confront it wherever it occurs — including within the institutions they govern.

Many women in Parliament let us down today by voting against @senatorthorpe Bills to end the shackling of pregnant people and those giving birth and ending the strip searching of children. So much for feminism and ending violence against women.

Strip searching is sexual assault by the State.

Nothing about us without us. No more violence hidden behind prison walls.
#freeher #endviolenceagainstwomen
@debkilroy @thenationalnetwork_abolition @art_by_tibbles @tabithalean #compliancedoesnotmeanconsent @australianlabor @lnpqld

Thanks to the all the MPs who supported the Bills to end the horrific violence against women and children 🩷

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Shameful to see the Minister for Women justify the continued shackling of women giving birth. The inquiry showed that the Commonwealth has power to stop this. People need to realise that when the Albanese government calls this a state and territory issue, that’s not a legal argument, it’s a choice they are making.

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A CALL OUT TO EVERY LABOR MP: VOTE TO END THE SHACKLING OF PEOPLE GIVING BIRTH.

To every Labor MP: this is a moment to stand up for human dignity, bodily autonomy and the right of every person to give birth without being subjected to restraints and state-sanctioned violence.

I call on every Labor MP to vote for this Bill — not simply to align themselves with their party’s political position, but to exercise their conscience and recognise the profound harm that shackling inflicts on women, birthing people and their babies.

Violence against women can begin before they are even born. When a pregnant woman is shackled, the violence of the criminal legal system reaches into the most intimate and vulnerable moments of pregnancy, labour and birth. It affects not only the woman giving birth, but also her baby, whose earliest experiences are shaped by the conditions imposed on their mother.

For Aboriginal women, the consequences are inseparable from the ongoing violence of colonisation, systemic racism and deaths in custody. An Aboriginal woman who gives birth in shackles may be returned to prison after childbirth, separated from her newborn baby and placed in an environment where her health, recovery and safety are at risk. The trauma of childbirth, the removal of her baby and the brutality of incarceration can compound one another, with potentially devastating consequences.

We cannot ignore the risk of another Aboriginal death in custody. Aboriginal women must not be shackled during labour or childbirth, placed at risk through inadequate postnatal care, or returned to prison without proper regard for their physical and psychological wellbeing. The separation of mothers and babies can inflict profound and lasting harm on both.

END THE SHACKLING. END THE VIOLENCE. LET EVERY PERSON GIVE BIRTH WITH DIGNITY.

#EndTheShackling #stopBlackDeathsInCustody #FreeHer #BirthWithDignity #SistersInside EndViolenceAgainstWomen

@albomp @janastewartvic @reneecoffeymp @karacookbonner @polleysenatorhelen @senatorjacquilambie @malarndirri @senatorpennyqld @senatorfatimapayman @senkatyg @senatorpennywong @australianlabor @lnpqld @australiangreens

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This week the two Bills proposed by @senatorthorpe will be in Parliament

We urge the government to pass these Bills. We must abolish the strip searching of children and the practice of shackling people giving birth.

We will be watching and taking names of who votes in support of the Bills and who votes to maintain these violent practices.

Have you signed the online open letter yet?
www.lidiathorpe.com/campaigns

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I need your help and your phone, Albanese and his friends in the Liberal party are coming together to reject my Bill to ban shackling during childbirth. They are one and the same. Please get your phones and call their offices:

Attorney-General Michelle Rowland: (02) 6277 7300

Senator Michaelia Cash, Shadow Attorney-General: (02) 6277 3045

And it goes without saying but please be respectful to their staff.

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This is just some of what we heard at today’s hearing about ending strip searching of children. Thank you to Tabitha, Dan, Matcho, Aunty Vicky, Kelly, Benjamin, Tia, Tanika, and Nancy for speaking.

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Honoured to sit alongside my formerley incarcerated Sisters and Brothers today for the Inquiry into Crimes Amendment (prohibiting the strip searching of Children) Bill. Massive thanks to Senator Thorpe for fighting to allow us to give evidence as peoples who have lived through this continual violence from the States. Although emotional and triggering, the love and support for one another was so powerful. Super proud of you all, so brave ❤️

@sisters_inside_inc @thenationalnetwork_abolition
@debkilroy @tabithalean @itsneekzbabe
@senatorthorpe @dan_vansetten @matcho_makata

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