Synapsis Journal Releases Special Justice-in-Education Edition

February 10, 2021

The new, special edition issue of Synapsis Journal features auto-ethnographies of incarceration, Covid-19, and surviving lockdown with poetry, songs, non-fiction pieces, and letters written by Justice-in-Education Scholars. 

The new, special edition issue of Synapsis Journal features auto-ethnographies of incarceration, Covid-19, and surviving lockdown with poetry, songs, non-fiction pieces, and letters written by Justice-in-Education Scholars. 

Synapsis: A Health Humanities Journal was founded in 2017 by Arden Hegele, a literary scholar, and Rishi Goyal, a physician. Their mission is to develop conversations among diverse people thinking about medical and humanistic ways of knowing, and  they see themselves as a “Department Without Walls” that connects scholars and thinkers from different spheres. The Journal is supported by the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society at Columbia University.

Read the Justice-in-Education edition here.

Today somebody told me that a person I called friend tested positive. Today the news said it wasn’t a matter of 'if' but of 'when' it would be me. Today, I realized that I was afraid. That I am afraid I won’t get the chance to say goodbye.

Shedrick Blackwell, currently incarcerated

Read more of Shedrick's poem which was transcribed through the phone by CfJ's Ivan Calaff.