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Julia Posted 5 years, 2 months ago.   Favorite
When CDCR, and San Quenitn
State Prison defer to the
contengency of Lesbians to
foster a curriculum designed
for the programming of inmates
that identify to some degree
as LGBTI+, by default,
CDDR exacerbates the ongoing
deprivation for the resources,
and funding, social justice,
historical, and educational
and spiritual and mental
health of the continumn, and
spectrum of all LGBTQI+
incarcerated Americans.
-F. Smith

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Julia Posted 5 years, 2 months ago.   Favorite
SO I took it upon myself to
retire from Death Penalty
related Journalism, and create
a zine issue that was totally
black perspective, historically,
educationally, and yes, personally.

My TOP-Down research method,
and inquiry findings concluded that,

a) All California Department of
Corrections policies have been
by way of Litigation Settlements
refocused, with all care and
attention to Department Responses
to PREA - Prison Rape Elimination
Act, claims are all designed
to primarily effect the
safety and security of inmates
that identify as Transgender,
which by default leaves
inmates that identify as gay,
or bi-sexual underserved
and vulnerable to abuses.

b) At San Quentin, the Lead
PREA Investigator presents
as Lesbian, as do the
Statewide PREA Coordinator.

c) The one, SQ mainline program
is also headed by a volunteer
that also presents as lesbian

with the combination of all
three of these observations
from within an All Male prison,
San Quentin State Prison officials
who are unaware of a 20 year
devision within the LGBTQI+
community where a growing
number of Programming agendas
have been controlled by a
contengency of Lesbians that
have mission to retaliate
against predominantly gay males
that notibelly exluded Lesbians,
and Trangender persons from the
early days of the Gay Liberation
movement, in an effort to
re-begin the Epic Story
within new curricullum that
refocuses the Genesis of the
movement to the 1969 Stonewall
Liberation, headed by Trans
women, that found a new
sisterhood with Lesbian groups,
that morph the new version
of Gay history to include
womens issues and causes
of the day, at the expense of
leaving Gays vulnerable to a
nonprotected position. It is
a factual point to make here
that most Black gay prisoners
that are so left out of the
family we call LGBTQI+, that
most don't know the source of
the eclusion, which is now
prepetrated primarily by Whites
that present as lesbians, that
have lobbied CDCR for
leadership positions for the
programming of inmates that
identify as LGBTQI+ .

This conduct has been so
observed in outter society
of said racial exclusion, that
Black LGBTQI+ persons had
to create "BLACK PRIDE"
recognitions and celebratins
durring the month of June
which is recognized as
"PRIDE MONTH" all over the
world, hence "Latino Pride"
and more.

For those of You who are in
denial, and reject this body
of work, please research the
recent official change to the
Rainbow Flag to include the
colors Black, and Brown at
the top, and inquire as to
why the community felt it
necessary for the official
inclusion of Black and
Latino people in LGBTQI+
flag demonstrations.

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Julia Posted 5 years, 2 months ago.   Favorite
In or about April 12, 2016 I
was working as co-editor of the
WRITE OR DIE Zine Project, which
is the vision of a fellow California
Condemned inmate that I had
dedicated myself to for 6 years
before THe Pulse Night Club Mass
Shooting in Florida happened on
that dreadful day which up to
that point was noted by many
as the worst Mass Shooting in
American History, it was infact,
the worst mass Shooting against
The LGBTQI+ Community for sure.

Up to that moment, I was hit
with my own realization that
while working and writing for
a predominantly Anti-Death Penalty
movement, in Zine format, I had
not written one word about my own
conditions as the only Black
Man on California Death Row
that identified openly as Gay.

Beyond the "crowded closet," there
is ZERO history of anyone gay
on California Death Row, now,
mind, you, near to 2013, there
is 2 transgender girls, yet,
one received re-assignment
surgery and was re-housed at
Chowchilla Prison for Women,
and a very courageous Latino
man that came out as Bi-sexual
around 2 year ago, soout
of 750+ people on Death Row
3 people identify to some degree
as LGBTQI+, 3 in 750 ?

San Quentin has a 4,000 plus
total inmate population, and
durring a reent San Quentin
Prison Media broadcast of
the "EAR Hustle" opdcast episode
titled "The Down Low," the Inmate
host of the podcast stated that
"No one at San Quentin is
openly Gay, no one."

So from the total history of Death
Row until now, I'm the only
person at San Quentin State
Prison that is Gay? Where
else in any society can we
find these kinds of numbers?,
and why?

I pounded my fist on the wall
to get the attention of the guy
in the cell nextdoor, who
at the time on April 12, 2016,
who was none other than the
creator of The WRITE OR DIE
Zines, WODZ.

While asking if I could theme
a WODZ issue LGBTQI+ in
the wake of the Pulse Night
Club Mass Shooting, he simply
said "get' em," and this
was the origins of how the
Azande Press Zine issues
evolved from that very first
LGBTQI+ perspective WODZ
issue titled "Poetry, Prose & Condz
vole 3". This, and all
Azande Press Issues are
available @:
South Chicago, ABC Zine Distro
P.O. Box 721, Homewood, IL. 60430

(Black Gay Zine Issues)
WODZ - Poetry, Prose & Condz vol 3
WODZ - I am Azande
Azande Press - Sound Mind Steamer
Azande Press - Sound Mind Streamer pt 2
Azande Press - Gaytekeepers
Azande Press - Lberated Facts
Azande Press - Direct MEssage
Azande Press - SIX
Azande Press - Parallelboi

After the release of the first WODZ
issue - PP&C vol 3, I realized that
I still had not dealt with the
reasons as to why I was the
only open gay black man in a
prison that housed over 4,000
inmates.

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Julia Posted 5 years, 2 months ago.   Favorite
Fact for stone tossers.
F. Smith

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Julia Posted 5 years, 2 months ago.   Favorite
"That God," had no problem
creating other earth spiecies
male and female in prior
verses of the souree, that
story, yet, when
it came to Man, God has
this apithany? that he
ther forgot to create a
human female? Or?...

How many wives did Abraham
have? how many wives can
a man have in America?
That God, dealt directly with
Abraham, and so-called
pastors say that they talk
to that same god who they
say is the same today,
yesterday and forever
word games still suck huh?

Guess it is impossible for
a man to commit adultery
if he has many wives?
OR is marage still defined
as the union between
1 man, and 1 woman?

The use of the word Eunuch in
that book is fact to me
that man is a great
embellishing writer, and
a great disrespector of
his own God, and the
intellectual capacity of
his fellow human.

Black people continue to
abuse fellow Black people
of this born free generation
with dispositions that
are flawed, and realistically
non-factual.

Who today will tell a pastor
that his book says for a
woman is to remain silent
in church Service? Anybody?

yet, a female Pastor today can
verbally abuse LGBTQI+ people
from the pulpit, and durring
Church Service? We call that
Selective Morality. Kim Burrell
I love your singing voice, yet
you speak like a stone castor.

I believe the Woman Silence
verse is very disrespectful
to my amazing Aunt Joyce
who is an incredible Evangelist,
and all of the amazing female
Gospel Singer's and Rappers,
the female program announcer's
the female Church Administrator's
and powerful women of God,
but that's just my gay Blac
man's opinion, but at leats,
my opinion is based on facts.

Black people can benefit by
understanding that the knowledge
of a fact is not required
for a fact to exist, for a
fact is a fact wheather we
accept it or not.

We are on a mission to Liberate
enslaved facts about Our own
history without begging for
empathy or acceptance from
anyone, however, there is
a demand here against social
and economical injustice, Physical,
Spiritual, and Cultural abuse
and deprivation, and that's a
Liberated fact?

Heterosexual people should
not be allowed to dictate
as so-called experts of
something they profess
not to be.

The old presentation of
gay people that claim
religion made them
straight is no more
valuable than straight
people being turned- out
as homosexual, there
is a duality there for
claim that doesn't apply
to the rest of the
homosexuals on the planet,
as heterosexual people
make the crusial mistake
that all gay people rise
and or fall to a cookie Cutter
common standard of degrees.

Homosexual pediphilia is equal
to heteral sexual pediphilia
for pediphilia has more to
do with the under age of a
child, not the sexual identity
of the adult, and this sick
conduct is well documented in
heterelsexual people and
cultures all over the world,
and thats a horrific liberated

Posted on Liberated Facts by Floyd Smith Liberated Facts
Julia Posted 5 years, 2 months ago.   Favorite
Liberated Facts

Sometimes are as a Society
forget that the abolishment
of the enslavement of any
people doesn't always liberate
the enslaved facts about
interrupted, and distroyed spiritual
and cultural history of enslaved
persons, and tribes.

Today, we are now seeing
the results of the post tramatic
effects of enslavement
within the born free generation
that have been intentionally
denied access to totality of
the reality of the existence
of what we know as same sex
activities pre-colonial era
of the enslavement of Black
People all around the World

The born free generation
continues to be victimized
and conditioned to turn
against fellow Black people
that identify to some degree
of what is now known as
LGBTQI+, which by default
Means, Black people must
now become abolisher's,
and take an active Position
for the Liberations of Facts
of Black History.

Black people must not
confuse the actions of
Liberatng Facts with
the other so-called Methods
of requesting empathy
from oppressor's and fellow
Black people, for empathy
is not required for the
demand of, and command of
true freedom.

The Liberation of Facts also
doesn't require Military
action, acts of violence, or
an protests,
because, any facts, exists
as a defender of itself.

We dont look into the faces
of our amazing born free
generation and say that
they are 3 fifths percent
of a human being, because
w, even without facts
to disprove such ignorance, and
our youth Know that, to
be untrue, ad unacceptable.

Why then should Black People
continue in ignorance, inspite
mounting Liberated facts that
that hatred was imported
into Africa, not homosexuality?

Gay people are 100% human.

Our validated distain for
the horror's of the act's
of Buck-Breaking sicking
methods forced upon
our honored Ancestor's
must not be used as a
misguided untruth to
abuse ever born free
generation, because
the liberated Fact is
that rape is still rape
inspite the sexual identity
of the victim-

Liberated Facts show that
some of those Victims of
Buck Breaking identified
as what we now understand
as LGBTQI+, before they
was enslaved, and so,
Buck Breaking, in the 1600s
didn't make me homosexual
circa 2020, no more than
Breeding Slaves to make
slaves Big and Strong to
produce a strong workfoce
didnt make any of my
biological sisters identify
by what we recognize today
as Heterosexual, or that
would also mean that enslavers
bred heterosexual hyper masculinitized
distain for homosexuals.

Abusers of the Misuse of
history can't have it both
ways, especially with foreign Religions.

A male God, and a sleeping
Male human Adam, produced
a human female Eve, for
the sole purpose of providing
that male Adam with a,
"Helpmate", which by the way,
to this day, has never been
proven to be a fact.

Posted on Liberated Facts by Floyd Smith Liberated Facts
Julia Posted 5 years, 2 months ago.   Favorite
The agreement had a second
prong for the forced, violent
physical removal of the
so-called "undesirable" inmates.

Some Gangmembers relayed to
me that they was NOT involved
in said action and agreement
with other Gangs.
I expressed to them that there is
a contribution of Blackness when
we as a people hold the White
Silence is violence disposition
over white people, and Police
officers that call themselves good,
yet do, and say nothing about
fellow white people and Police
Brutality and Murder of OUR
Black Youth, and yet, Fellow
Gang Members, of all races spit
on, and toss urin and feces on
Black-Gay Inmates in Gang Silence?

Other Gangmembers say, "Well, we
got tired of The Homies to fight
and Kill each other in Jails Prisons,
The Streets, and in The Hood, and
nobody has agreed to get Rid of
all females.

Another Gangmembers said, "Well
Homosexuals be Snitchin, and using
prison yards as a Hurting ground
to turn out The Homies.
I said "Snitchin is a regular Component
to ctiminal life, and for decades
Gangmembers have been notorious for
Snitchin. moreover. When a Gangmember
snitches, nobody agrees to get rid of
all Gangmembers, and Gangmembers are
still snitchin to this day, in fact to
Your other part, Gangs are also Known
to use prison Yards as a Hunting
grown to "turn others out" into being
gangmembers, and nobody has called
for an agreement to get rid of those
that do what You speak of.

Another Gangmember said "Well, 9 times
out of 10, agz are in prison for
being pedophile Childmolesters,
Raping little boys, so they had to go."

I replied that the stats show that
most pedophiles, Rapist, and Child molsters
identify and present as Heterosexual,
and there are more sex offenders
who identify as heterosexual Gangmembers
who are Black and on so-called
Death Row Solid yards than Blacks
assigned to so-called SNY yards
put together, to this very second.
Infact, the very Gangs that are
involved in the agreement, made the
agreement with, and are still on the
yard with, Pedophiles, Child Molesters,
Serial Rapist with Media given
nicknames and other sex related
offenses, and nobody is "Getting Rid of
them because they are the Homies?"

The last Gangmember said, "Well,
Governor Gavin Newsome supports Gay
shit, so at some point, especially if
a few fagz get somked (killed), then
He will force CDCR to Stop That
5050 program merger bullshit, and
the white man brought that
Homosexual shit to Afruca anyway,
Fuck all Fags, and you're an
Abomination

My apit became, IF my Black
adverary, with His Brilliant Book
writing ass was this ignorant to the
Facts, then how much more ignorant
was my fellow Black Gay Family?
So with love, I created Azande
Press Zine Issue Series
-F. Smith

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Julia Posted 5 years, 2 months ago.   Favorite
In any other Custody Level like
Level FOUR, and Level THREE
institutions, in the event that
other inmates discover that
a fellow inmate was Housed
in a Non-Designated Prison,
that inmate will be physically
attacked and not allowed to
return.

Therefore, it becomes a very
fraudulant claim of any
program for LGBTQI+, to
intend to end violence against
LGBTQI+ inmates at SQSP
Because that type of program
is only offered to a portion
of the prison population that
are not under direct threat
of violence, and have already
signed an agreement with
CDCR to not forfit program
status through Gang activity
and violence.

SanQuentin's other inmate
population programs have ZERO
inter existence with eachother,
for example:

1. SanQuentin is also a
Northern Reception Center
for inmates who are
recently commited, and
are awaiting endorcement
for Housing within the
States Multiple Institutions

1. Donner Section
2. Badger Section
3. Alpine Unit
4. Carson Section

In the event that an inmate
openly identifies to any degree
as LGBTQI+ in these Units,
that inmate is subjected to
brutal assaults and beatings,
that include being Spit on,
having Water, Urin, Feces,
and Dirty Condoms douced
on them, and forced to be
rehoused in Alpine Unit
which is primarily a P.C.
Protective Custody program,
with Reception Center
Over-Flow tiers

There are no LGBTQI+
Programming and services in
Donner, Badger, and Carson
Sections, also ZERO in
Alpine, where no inmate
has signed the agreement
with The Department to
NON Designated Status
programming, as LGBTQi+
Inmates have no place to
land, ZERO resources.

2. SanQuentin is also a
prison that Houses Death
Row Inamte population

1. unit EASTBLOCK
2. unit NORTH-Seg
3. Ajustment Center
4. 1st and 2nd Tiers- DONNER Section

Through fur there resaerch, I
also found ZERO Reports, OR
DISTRICT Attorney Referrals for
the prosecution of any inmate
for Hate Crimes against
another inamte based on
Sexual Orientation, and Identity,
as far back as 30 years.

Surprisingly most Gangs and
subcultural groups was upfront
to state after a recent
struggle against The Department to
be released from years of solitary
Confinement, and back into the
CDCR Generaly Population, The
Department moved to Change to
a different Prison model called
Non-Designated programs that
would mix the 5050 versions
of the programs in all California
fusions with Gang Dropouts, SNY's,
Rapist, Child Molesters, EVERYone
in the same program.

In an attempt to stop CDCR from
moving forward with this Model.
The Gangs made an agreement
amongst themselves to end all
of the Hostilities Between the
Races, which turned out to
be a clandestien shell game
that was really a Agreement
to End The Hostilities Between
Active Gangs, Prison Gangs,
and Street Gangs.

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Julia Posted 5 years, 2 months ago.   Favorite
Azande Press (B)

Now that Azande Zine issues
have been Beta-tested within
the Condemned population for the
chosen few, also select SQSP
mainline Inmates in in North Block,
Reception Center Housing areas
Donner Section and Alpine
units, Mule Creek Facility,
and other Zinester Community
Activist, I trust that we
have a product ready for
further distribution throughout
the Country, and beyond.

Through intense inquiry, I
discovered there existed ZERO
African American Perspective
LGBTQI+ Programming for
the Educational, Medical,
Spiritual, and Mental Health
and wellbeing in no American
Prison Facility, NONE.

I have found several Amazing
Inmate Created Self-Help
Groups for The LGBTQI+
Community, and even with
these groups, the primary
focus design is Transgender
based, and Minimal to no
African American Awareness and
Studies.

For clarity, here, I will use
the SanQuentin Model. What
most people dont know is SQ
is actually several different
Custody Level Prisons located
in one Facility.

1. The Mainline population
which is primarily a
LEVEL II Facility, and
in order for inmates to be
on this Campus and
Participate in Rehabilitative
programs, They "All" Must
Sign a written agreement
with the CDCR to not
engage in any Gang Activity,
OR acts of violence.

On the Prison Culture side of
this NON-Designated Program,
the ignorant, institutionalized,
Gang mortality inmates, View
all NON-Designated program
institutions as
a) P.C.
b) Sensitive Needs
c) Dropout
d) Snitches
e) Rapist
f) Homosexuals

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tenzintenzin Posted 5 years, 2 months ago.   Favorite
Hello Charles
I had the unpleasant experience of having a rat run across my arm as I lay in bed watching tv. It actually scratched my arm as it sped across the bed. I was six months pregnant at the time. I ran to the bathroom and doused the scratch in bleach, the strong kind. U.K. rats, where I’m from, carry Weils disease. It’s their urine that carry’s the germ, and it can be fatal. People who enjoy swimming in rivers are prone to it. And then there’s also the fleas on the rats, and the microbes on the fleas on the rats.
I was conflicted about extermination being a Buddhist. But it had to be done, a baby was coming and if the rat was bold enough to climb up on a bed where it knew a human was, a crib would be an easy target. So we paid a bloke, and they set traps, and put down poison. And we never saw another one.
They are the stuff of nightmares. Smart like us, self preserving and too numerous,
Would the death row authorities be open to allowing a couple of cats to be released to the row. They might be more successful that bait trays, and create some good energy among the men who like cats? Obviously not the dog people!
Good luck with it.
T

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