I’m sad that you’re too tired to scream at injustice as deep as what you experience on a daily basis. It’s an evil so subtle and deeply buried that we are surprised when women bring it into the open. But more and more courageous women are doing just that and I thank you with all my heart for making this fight.

As we celebrate the death of Scalia, your words bring comfort. “His most cherished associates include patriarchy, heteronormativity, elitism, greed, and theism.” I’d laugh but then I’d cry, as we continue the march toward the next presidential election.

I didn’t know the story of Kalief, but it is ‘a mountain’. It seems so many wrongs were done. It didn’t start yesterday – but it is now a mountain that is starting to crumble from its heavy, heavy weight. Aside from the other injustices and poor judgement that Kalief endured along the way, locking someone up, let alone a 16 year old, in solitary confinement – ‘to protect them’ from other inmates is just madness.