{"product_id":"mainline-mama-a-memoir","title":"Mainline Mama: A Memoir","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA powerful exploration of self-resilience, family, and community from activist and prison abolitionist Keeonna Harris.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKeeonna and Jason met as young teens. Only fourteen, Keeonna had never had a boyfriend before, dreamed of attending Spelman to become an obstetrician, and thought she was \"grown.\" Within a year she was pregnant and Jason was in prison, convicted of a carjacking and sentenced to twenty-two years. Overnight Keeonna had become a \"mainline mama,\" a parent facing the task of raising a child--while still growing up herself--in a raw coming of age story with an incarcerated partner.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this triumphant social justice memoir, Keeonna recalls her challenging journey as a mainline mama, from learning to overcome the exhausting difficulties of navigating the carceral system in the United States to transforming herself into an advocate for women like her--the predominantly Black and Brown women left behind to pick up the pieces of their families and fractured lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKeeonna speaks frankly about the forces of systemic injustice that threatened to defeat her, how she learned to re - build her broken relationship with a mother who had lost trust in her, and how time eased the shame, guilt, and stigma of being a young Black teen mom with a partner behind bars. She offers inspiration and solace, showing how to create moments of beauty, humanity, and love--such as picking the perfect wedding dress for a ceremony in a state prison visiting room--in a place de - signed to break spirits.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMainline Mama is a story of radical self-love and community--crucial acts of radical resistance against a prison industrial complex designed to dehumanize and to separate and shut away incarcerated individuals and their loved ones from the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHow does a family survive when the system is designed to tear it apart?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eThe Carceral System: \u003c\/b\u003e Explore the unfiltered reality of becoming a teen mom whose partner is sentenced to twenty-two years, and the exhausting fight to navigate a system designed to break spirits from the outside.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eA Black Woman's Story: \u003c\/b\u003e Follow Keeonna's journey through the shame and stigma of young motherhood, rebuilding a broken relationship with her own mom and transforming into a powerful advocate for Black and Brown women.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eMotherhood and Incarceration: \u003c\/b\u003e Discover how love and humanity can be found in the most dehumanizing of places, from picking out the perfect wedding dress for a prison ceremony to raising a child with a parent behind bars.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003ePrison Abolitionist Memoir: \u003c\/b\u003e Learn how building a community of \"mainline mamas\" and practicing self-love become crucial acts of radical resistance against the prison industrial complex.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Amistad Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44106801250403,"sku":"9780063205697","price":26.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0621\/7515\/0179\/files\/imageloader_a77efb3c-7d20-4255-82db-10987e490d9c.jpg?v=1775655700","url":"https:\/\/redricebooks.com\/products\/mainline-mama-a-memoir","provider":"Red Rice Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}