Field Note #2

Recently, I have started work on a project in which many of my narrators, without prompting, have offered insight into what restitution for injustice means to them. Often the definition involves financial compensation for the time spent in immigration detention centers, the separation from loved ones and the psychological impact and humiliation inflicted by state sanctioned violence and imprisonment. The recurring theme prompted me to return to a podcast I heard months ago (if not a year) on the subject of apologies. “The Anatomy of An Apology” with Kimberlé Crenshaw in conversation with playwright Eve Ensler and Kate Manne discuss how ineffective justice becomes if an apology is not part of the process.