Jailbirds in Flight
A quiet exhibition of women who taught us how to be free.
Diamond
Softness as a form of courage.
Please take a moment before you continue.
There is a version of strength that hardens the face and closes the hands. Diamond has the other kind. She has been given every reason to armor herself and has, again and again, chosen not to. Her tenderness is not naïveté—it is a decision, made and remade, to keep the world welcome inside her. She laughs the way children laugh, without accounting. She grieves openly. She stays curious. Spend ten minutes with her and you will start to wonder whether the softness you long ago edited out of your own life might have been the bravest thing about you.
Ten minutes with Diamond
A short film in the Jailbirds in Flight series. Running time approximately ten minutes. Please watch, if you can, in one sitting.
Filmed inside — part of the ongoing project to change the way our culture sees the women it puts behind walls.
Tenderness
Diamond taught us that softness is a form of courage. In a place designed to harden every edge, she chose to keep her heart open, again and again. She reminds us that human flourishing is not the absence of pain but the refusal to let pain be the last word we speak.
A favorite line from Diamond will live here — one sentence that opens the whole door.
Diamond
An excerpt about Diamond
A short passage from Jailbirds in Flight featuring Diamond will live here — the kind of paragraph that makes you want to buy the book by the end of it.
What did Diamond awaken in you?
Written responses become part of the exhibition's guestbook.
Adjacent rooms
Move through the exhibition, one portrait at a time.