The After Violence Archive was created in 2021 with funding from the Mellon Foundation. It serves as an online repository for materials (interviews, correspondence, art, and other items) documenting state-sanctioned violence in the United States, collected by After Violence Project and our community members from 2007-present. These materials help us understand the impacts of state-sanctioned violence on individuals and communities, and to move towards futures that do not rely on retribution and punishment.Â
We encourage all visitors to read our Statement on Archive Contents before engaging with these stories as a means to promote the wellbeing of visitors and contributors.
To submit materials to the After Violence Archive — as an individual or as a prospective partner collection — please contact us at [email protected]
Tomeka Hayes is a caring mother and advocate who wants to use her voice to bring attention to the injustice her son is facing in the Alabama prison system due to his mental illness and addiction.
