ABSTRACT
This chapter takes up the feminist and postcolonial question of how one speaks for “the other,” addressing the complexities of power differentials between people who are detained and people who are advocating for their release. It focuses on the student campaign to win Carla's freedom, interweaving details of student visits to detention and classroom experiences with Carla visiting via video. The chapter also integrates details of Jane Juffer's everyday life, counterposing the time and space of her life to that of detention. The theoretical rubric deployed is that of Judith Butler's writings on mutual vulnerability.
