MUNCY STATE PRISON
November 25th, 2024
Monday
My reaction to Muncy TEDx Talks:
“Your mistakes don’t have to define you” and all of that is fine on its face, but none of those women have actually been to prison. Being an ex-con DOES define you forever, and that’s just reality. In the job market, whether you can go to college or do certain professions, in custody cases, even in getting housing in the future. We in REALITY, have many less opportunities than we did before. Do you think I’M going to be appointed by the governor and living my best life if I “make good choices” in the future?
That’s just bullshit.
What nobody’s addressing is that mass incarceration in the United States is real, and the system is rigged for recidivism. What nobody is saying is that what brings most women to prison is addiction, trauma, and mental illness, and THOSE AREN’T CHOICES.
November 26th, 2024
Kaylee’s birthday
Tuesday
New word:
“Inshitivism”–a decline in business.
November 27th, 2024
Wednesday
4:16pm
We didn’t shop today, which really, REALLY sucks. Now we won’t go until Monday. I have no coffee or e-cigs.
Fuck.
Book:
The Poets and Writers Complete Guide to Being a Writer: Everything You Need to Know About Craft, Inspiration, Agents, Publishing, and the Business of Building a Sustainable Writing Career © 2020
P, 4
“Toni Morrison was acutely aware of the writer’s unique ability to make sense of the great suffering inherent in the human experience. ‘Certain kinds of trauma visited on peoples are so deep, so cruel, that unlike money, unlike vengeance, even unlike justice, or rights, or the goodwill of others, only writers can translate such trauma and turn sorrow into meaning, sharpening the moral imagination,’ the Nobel laureate said upon accepting the 2008 PEN/Borders Literary Service Award in New York City.”
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