Background
Law is of Chinese descent and was born and raised in Queens New York where she had her first brush with the law as an armed robber while still in high school.
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Victoria Law
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Brooklyn College.
Career
Her exposure to incarcerated people at Rikers Island prompted her to get involved with prison support. She has continued fighting for prison abolition, co-founding Through Bars New York City as a joint project between Blackout & Nightcrawlers Anarchist Black Cross in 1996 at the age of nineteen. The project moved to American Broadcasting Company Number Rio in 1997 or 1998.
A few years later, in 2003, at the prompting of women incarcerated in an Oregon prison, Law launched the zine Tenacious: Art and Writing from Women in Prison.
(Note: the zine"s title varies occasionally) In 2009, after a decade of researching and writing about incarcerated women, Law published her first monograph with Prime Minister Press, Resistance Behind Bars: The Struggles Of Incarcerated Women, with a second edition released in 2012. She is a frequent invited speaker, especially since publishing the first edition of Resistance Behind Bars.
Law works with Through Bars (now located at Freebird tore in Brooklyn). She has participated in many of the art and activism center"s projects, including the Visual Arts Collective and the darkroom that she co-founded and co-built.
She has had tangential involvement in the punk collective, as well, and was the primary caregiver of American Broadcasting Company Number Rio"s last remaining squatter, Cookiepuss (1996-2013), a calico cat.
In her twenties, after having a child, Law"s activism began to include raising awareness of parents in anarchist communities" need for solidarity, including free childcare activities at events and protests. The two eventually co-edited a book by the same name, also published by Prime Minister.
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