This book approaches the experiences of inequity and racism in the Mexican justice system through the voices and writings of thirteen incarcerated women who undertook the task of documenting and writing the stories of fellow indigenous and peasant women who did not have the privileged knowledge of writing. The life-story workshop was held by the publishing collective Hermanas en la Sombra in the women’s area of the Atlacholoaya prison in Morelos. Such a collective process created new ties of solidarity between indigenous and non- indigenous women, and opened a space in which to reflect together on the machismo and racism that mark Mexican society, and how it impacted on the chain of injustices and exclusions that resulted in the deprivation of their freedom. The book also includes poetry and thoughts written in the creative writing workshops that Hermanas en la Sombra held in the same prison.