{"product_id":"mainline-mama-a-memoir-9780063205710","title":"Mainline Mama: A Memoir","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA powerful exploration of self-resilience, family, and community from activist and prison abolitionist Keeonna Harris.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKeeonna and Jason met as young teens. Only fourteen, Keeonna had never had a boyfriend before, dreamed of attending Spelman to become an obstetrician, and thought she was \"grown.\" Within a year she was pregnant and Jason was in prison, convicted of a carjacking and sentenced to twenty-two years. Overnight Keeonna had become a \"mainline mama,\" a parent facing the task of raising a child--while still growing up herself--with an incarcerated partner. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this triumphant memoir, Keeonna recalls her challenging journey as a mainline mama, from learning to overcome the exhausting difficulties of navigating the carceral system in the United States to transforming herself into an advocate for women like her--the predominantly Black and Brown women left behind to pick up the pieces of their families and fractured lives. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKeeonna speaks frankly about the forces that threatened to defeat her, how she learned to re - build her broken relationship with a mother who had lost trust in her, and how time eased the shame, guilt, and stigma of being a young Black teen mom with a partner behind bars. She offers inspiration and solace, showing how to create moments of beauty, humanity, and love--such as picking the perfect wedding dress for a ceremony in a state prison visiting room--in a place de - signed to break spirits. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMainline Mama is about creating self-love and community--crucial acts of radical resistance against a prison industrial complex designed to dehumanize and to separate and shut away incarcerated individuals and their loved ones from the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Amistad Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/10\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780063205710\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs","brand":"Keeonna Harris","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52107743789237,"sku":"9780063205710","price":16.14,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_4b094358-74e7-4326-b2a0-8e8d51c182d7.jpg?v=1765862102","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/mainline-mama-a-memoir-9780063205710","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}