“Nothing about Us Without Us”: Analyzing the Potential Contributions of Lived Experience to Penological Pedagogy
“Nothing about Us Without Us”: Analyzing the Potential Contributions of Lived Experience to Penological Pedagogy
Dwayne AntojadoSchool of Social Sciences, Monash University, Melbourne, AustraliaDwayne Antojado is a researcher and academic with lived experience of the criminal justice system in Australia. He uses his lived experience to influence his research and advocacy work in academia, government, and the not-for-profit sector. He has led and worked on various projects embedding and amplifying lived experience perspectives in organizational practice, structure and processes with organizations including, the Australian Community Support Organization, Jesuit Social Services, Vacro, and RMIT University’s community-based and prison-based think tanks. Dwayne is currently an academic in the School of Social Sciences, Monash University. He is also a senior writer for Paper Chained Magazine, an Australian-basedjournal of writing and artistic expression from individuals affected by incarceration. His research interests include LGBTQI+ experiences in the justice system, lived experience criminology, education in prisons, and prison radio.