Monday January 2nd was the last full day my beautiful daughter Amber McLaughlin will be permitted to spend on this earth. The state of Missouri carried out our Nations first State sponsored execution of a Transgender woman at 6:00pm Tuesday, January 3rd, 2023. Letters, emails and a petition with 2157…

For decades, our incarcerated brothers and sisters have written stories about uncaring and/or vindictive prison staff who assign transgender women to cells without regard for their personal safety. Thousands of stories have been reported where the outcomes of such assignments have been fatal. I had always been one of the…

Almost five decades ago, I entered adult prison for the first time, at just seventeen years of age. Everything about entering prison screamed that you had entered a huge machine that would use you until you had no value, before spitting you back out, full of hate and with a…

Being confined to a maximum security prison for over four decades gives you a close and personal relationship with the emotion we call hate. This negative energy is palpable, taking root like some pervasive weed feeding off of itself like a perpetually self-generating entity that consumes everything around it. …