i know “yankee” is the british term for all us americans but as someone from the south its bewildering to hear. that person isnt a yankee theyre from california. that person is NOT a yankee theyre from alabama.
more people would be for prison abolition if they just tried to send mail to an inmate even once
for almost a year now i’ve been trying to send a copy of the literary magazine i edit to an inmate who requested one. his prison prohibits any written materials that so much as mention drugs, weapons, criminal activity, or malicious violence of any sort. i’ve been poring over what’s available of the 95 volumes my magazine has printed over the years, and of those found 3 that might pass inspection. the first two were sent back undelivered two months after i sent them because one had a short story that alluded to a playground fight, and the other a poem that used the word “fist” in a nonviolent context. The third was returned for the stated reason that its contents depicted the use of firearms. i reread the entire issue, there’s not a single gun mentioned in all its 120 pages.
while going back and forth with this guy trying to figure out how to get a copy of the magazine in his hands, two of my letters bounced back for unspecified reasons. i learned that inmates are not given their correspondents’ original letters, but scanned copies, often poorly reproduced and sometimes illegible. these people aren’t even granted the ink their loved ones used to pen their messages, or to hold in their hands the paper their loved ones held, if they’re able to receive their words at all.
Something that bothered me a lot during visitation with my dad was it wasn’t even in person?? They basically made us drive all the way out there to do a video call. Like in shows you see the bulletproof glass between ppl who have to talk thru a phone, it was kinda like that but we didn’t even get to be in the same room it was a line of screens set into the wall. Everything about prisons is made to be dehumanizing.
If you don’t have people you know in Prison, your naive assumption is likely to be that they are there to hold and rehabilitate the prisoners.
In fact, prison policy across the country involves a tremendous amount of gratuitous, unmotivated torture of the inmates.
just saw a furry go “ugh pup masks are the worst thing to happen to the furry community” and it’s like what are you talking about those are your cousins, at the end of the day you’re both pretending to be gay dog men, i think it’s just an aesthetic choice at that point
Every now and then I start seeing a rise of anti-breeder sentiment in notes on posts I reblog written by people who are (presumably) my followers. This is one of those weeks, so a friendly reminder:
I wholly support responsible cat and dog breeders
Purebred animals are NOT the cause of overburdened shelters or increased stray populations
Stray cat & shelter populations are almost exclusively made of domestic shorthairs/longhairs, not purebred cats
Major factors for increased stray populations are irresponsible pet ownership and management (ie. allowing cats to have kittens rather than fixing them, letting cats roam freely outside, dumping cats that are no longer wanted)— things that a responsible breeder is incentivized to avoid
Buying a purebred animal is not “stealing” a home from a shelter animal
Shelters and responsible breeders are not enemies, and both ultimately work toward the same goals of animal welfare, public education, and putting pets in homes where they will thrive
I literally have a purebred bengal cat why do anti breeder people follow me
