Rebel Justice
What is justice? Who does it serve? Why should you care?
When we think about justice, we think about it as an abstract, something that happens to someone else, somewhere else. But justice and the law regulate every aspect of our interactions with each other, with organisations, and with the government.
We never think about it until it impacts our lives, or that of someone close.
Our guests are women with lived experience of the justice system whether as victims or women who have committed crimes; or people at the forefront of civic action who put their lives on the line to demand a better world..
We ask them to share their insight into how we might repair a broken and harmful system, with humanity and dignity.
We also speak with people who are in the heart of the justice system creating important change; climate activists, judges, barristers, human rights campaigners, mental health advocates, artists and healers.
Rebel Justice
107. Issue 16: Justice, Resistance & Human Cost — Voices from The View Magazine
Issue 16 is not an interview. It is a response.
In this episode, writers, editors, and contributors from The View Magazine reflect on the themes, questions, and tensions explored in Issue 16 — justice, resistance, wrongful imprisonment, mental health, Gaza, and institutional failure.
These are personal reflections, professional insight, and honest reactions to stories that demand attention.
What you’re hearing is only part of the conversation. The full writing, research, and visuals live in the pages of Issue 16.
Issue 16 is available now. Subscribe to access the full writing, research, and visuals that bring these conversations to life.
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Issue 16 is not an interview. It's a response. The voices you're about to hear are from within our editorial team. Writers, thinkers, and contributors responding directly to the themes, questions, and tensions explored in issue 16 of the magazine. These are personal reflections, professional insight, and honest reactions to an issue that demands attention. What you're hearing is only part of the conversation. The full stories, the writing, the research, the visuals live in the pages of issue 16. This is issue 16, and this is why it matters.
Speaker:My name is Christine Foster, and I interviewed the cover star Nicole Fary for issue 16 of The View magazine. Farry is best known as a defining figure in British fashion, but she describes herself first and foremost as an artist with responsibility. Faru reflects on a later phase of her career shaped not by aesthetics alone but by moral urgency, using sculpture to confront injustice, abusive power, and false imprisonment. I am a Guernsey born girl, and Victor Hugo has always loomed large on the island, having written Le Miserab and Toilers of the Sea. Farie discusses her recent bronze bust of Victor Hugo, creating not as a heroic monument, but as a portrait of a man in exile. Farry chose to pick Hugo at the moment he arrived in Guernsey, displaced, politically isolated, yet creatively fierce. She was inspired by his belief that art should not simply describe the world, but actively resist injustice, an idea that runs throughout her work. That belief is most powerfully expressed in her exhibition Jacuz, which addresses miscarriages of justice and the devastating human cost of wrongful imprisonment. The work exists as a form of witness, not resolution. She does not expect art to reform systems, but hopes it can create a shared emotional recognition, moments where viewers feel outrage, compassion, and refuse to look away. The interview then turns to the impact of imprisonment, particularly the denial of creative expression. Farry describes preventing prisoners from making art as a second sentence, stripping away not just freedom but voice and identity. For her, art is essential to mental survival, a way to preserve dignity, sanity, and a sense of self. Her upcoming series, The Children of Gaza, reflects this stance, universal human values, compassion, humanism, and resistance to injustice, a refusal to rank suffering or allow history to be selectively remembered. Throughout the conversation, Farry is clear.
Maile:Hello, my name is Miley Monds. I am a writer and editor for The View magazine, and I recently had the privilege of contributing an article to their 16th issue. This issue brings together investigative reporting, first-hand testimonies, all surrounding themes on justice, resistance, and stories of people who are reclaiming their voices in systems that try to silence them. I believe my article sits within this context as I write about Gaza Soup Kitchen, which is one of the largest Palestinian-led aid projects in northern Gaza. And as large-scale aid continues to be blocked and weaponized, and hunger is routine, many now rely on these grassroots community-led initiatives. We will continue with the final words of the co-founder after he was targeted and killed while delivering food. His legacy lives on in the kitchens that feed more than 3,000 people a day. His story matters along with all the others that can be found in this issue.
Speaker 3:One of the most powerful pieces for me was our conversation with Nicole Farhey. Her latest exhibition came from her outrage and injustice, where she used sculpture to defend humanity, as she said. Her upcoming series, The Children of Gaza, expands on this. Then there's Emma Smart's first hand account from Bronzefield. She spent 18 days in the healthcare wing where she encountered five women. She talks about the neglect they suffered. It's completely inhumane. Further on this was the Opcat investigation. At HMP Eastwood Park, women reported that complaints were being ignored or rejected without a reference number, so follow-up is impossible. There are also reports that independent monitoring boards, which are volunteer-led, are told not to respond to individual complaints.
Host:Hi, my name is Sophia Franco, and I was a contributor to issue 16 of The View magazine. I wrote about the role of mental health expertise in the justice system, and I wanted to share a short reflection on what feels most urgent to me after exploring this topic. My research highlighted a critical gap between recognizing a systemic issue and having sufficient capacity to address it. In one of my articles, I argued that mental health professionals are indispensable interpreters in the justice system. They help to interpret and translate the complexities of human psychology and behavior, including but not limited to trauma, addiction, or neurodivergence, for example. And this context is essential for a fair judgment. But my research for my second article on gender disparity and incarceration showed me that perhaps this crisis is also fundamentally gendered. I looked into a preventable death in a women's prison where warnings from professionals were systematically ignored. This wasn't just an isolated failure. It exposed a system built on a male-centric blueprint from its architecture to its protocols, where women's distinct profiles and acutely higher rates of mental health issues are treated as an institutional afterthought. This made me reflect upon the fact that it is no longer enough to simply say that we value expertise or even to just include it in the justice system. We must confront a deeper failure. Existing systems lack the infrastructure, resources, and fundamental conviction to act on that expertise in practice. This deficit becomes most severe for populations like women in the justice system, whom these systems were never designed to serve. Perhaps then true justice requires two particular commitments. Firstly, to request guidance from trained psychologists, doctors, psychiatrists, and other professionals who can offer insight into the human psyche for us to better understand it. And secondly, to redesign institutions so that they are finally capable of upholding all principles of human rights for everyone.
Speaker 3:You've been listening to voices from issue 16. What you've heard are reflections, but they're not the whole picture. Each voice connects back to essays, features, and investigations inside the magazine. Issue 16 was created to be read, revisited, and shared, to sit with you longer than an episode ever could. If these conversations resonated with you, we invite you to experience the full issue.
Maile:Issue 16 is available now, and the conversation continues on the page.org. And if this episode mattered to you, please share it.