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Thank you very much for writing. I have just read and transcribed your poem, which I hope I have done correctly. I thought it was hugely moving, and that your words express a really powerful and important message that a lot of people need to hear. You have a real talent for writing. Thank you again.
Good to read your writing again. I am sorry that the authorities at your prison are not following basic guidelines for showers and rec, I'm gonna send them a letter to check in on that because that is simply not fair. What do you normally do during Rec? What have you been reading? Know that there are people on the outside who care about you and are actively trying to dismantle the prison industrial complex. I am sorry that your bunkmate hasn't gotten any less annoying, but even though I don't really know you I do know that you will persevere. For now, I hope you continue to stay safe and healthy, both mentally and physically. Till next time, sona186 (06/17/20 12:07p)
Thanks for writing! You letter was the first piece I’ve writing I’ve transcribed. I’m excited to start this journey, and I hope to transcribe for you in the future! Your comment about snacks gave me a laugh at my boring job taking temperatures at a nursing home.
And to this day, his wife still doesn't know, and she is still allowed to visit him in spite of him saying that her visitations are a part of an agreement based on her continued cooperation with correctional investigations of other inmates drug mailing activities, search newspaper article, it has a photo of her in it as well. After I explained all of this to the youngster today, he said: "Wow, that makes sense because they keep staring at us between the gates, at first I thought you was just being all drama, but bro what is he like stalking you? Why video you out here? Those fools are weirdos" I said: "Yep, I think that's why the cops tell us not to hang our yellow bags on the gates because that's how they are videotaping the yards, see it?" Youngster said: "That´s crazy."
Today I was sitting next to a standing youngster on the yard, I was reading portions of our work, and asked the youngster for his opinion about which direction I should proceed as I laid out 3 different scenarios for him to consider. This is a story about homophobia on California Death Row, and straight ally victims. The youngster began to advise me about what he thought was best, when all of a sudden, he pulled his pants down complaining about how a sore on his thigh was irritating him, and asked me to look at it. I was like, "Bro, pull your pants up, I'm black and gay, and you are straight of another race, we are on a Deathrow exercise yard and..." The youngster cut me off and said: "I don't care about these fools out here or no gay shit, I'm trying to show you this shit." I said: "We got known informants videoing these yards trying to make a fast buck by selling videos to the media vampires, and trying to maintain their informant reliability states by turning your "pants down" into "gay shit," into "sex shit." After a brief exchange, the youngster pulled his pants up, and although he didn't say it, I have to admit the "elephant in the room": Us LGBTQI+ people want others to allow us to be ourselves around them, but straight people can't be themselves around us without a lecture, lesson, or an "EVERYbodies looking." So while we are being open, about who, and what we are, we often forget that our straight allies also experience the same discrimination because of associating with us, in an environment crawling with the so-called Deathrow Gay Taskforce, inmate secondary investigative informant agents videoing the yards like the vampires in the enclosed photo. The irony for me is that at one time, during the time this photo was taken, all 3 of us in this photo was sexually active with each other, notice the full arm on my leg in this photo, but 2 things happened, the dark heavy set one didn't appreciate only watching while me and the younger one in the glasses made love without him, and the other reason I left them to each other was the darker one wouldn't tell his wife about us because he said he couldn't afford for her to get mad and put him on blast for being "Jailhouse bisexual," especially since she was arrested and in the newspaper for smuggling drugs into San Quentin, and was cooperating with prison goon squad officers to inform on other inmates. So on one hand, he's afraid that his own wife would put him on blast and leave him if she knew about all 3 of us being sexually active on the yard, but then turn around and forced me off of the yard by providing the officer's false homosexual activity information about me, please see pages 20 & 21 of Azande Press Zine Neo-Urban Gatekeeper's 6 issue for CDCR-115 Rule Violations Report @:
South Chicago ABC Zine Distro P.O. Box 721. Homewood, IL. 60430 anthonyrayson@hotmail.com
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Good to read your writing again. I am sorry that the authorities at your prison are not following basic guidelines for showers and rec, I'm gonna send them a letter to check in on that because that is simply not fair. What do you normally do during Rec? What have you been reading? Know that there are people on the outside who care about you and are actively trying to dismantle the prison industrial complex. I am sorry that your bunkmate hasn't gotten any less annoying, but even though I don't really know you I do know that you will persevere. For now, I hope you continue to stay safe and healthy, both mentally and physically. Till next time,
sona186 (06/17/20 12:07p)
Best,
Liz (Maine)
"Wow, that makes sense because they keep staring at us between the gates, at first I thought you was just being all drama, but bro what is he like stalking you? Why video you out here? Those fools are weirdos"
I said:
"Yep, I think that's why the cops tell us not to hang our yellow bags on the gates because that's how they are videotaping the yards, see it?"
Youngster said:
"That´s crazy."
By: Rainbow Child 3.24.20
Today I was sitting next to a standing youngster on the yard, I was reading portions of our work, and asked the youngster for his opinion about which direction I should proceed as I laid out 3 different scenarios for him to consider.
This is a story about homophobia on California Death Row, and straight ally victims.
The youngster began to advise me about what he thought was best, when all of a sudden, he pulled his pants down complaining about how a sore on his thigh was irritating him, and asked me to look at it.
I was like, "Bro, pull your pants up, I'm black and gay, and you are straight of another race, we are on a Deathrow exercise yard and..."
The youngster cut me off and said: "I don't care about these fools out here or no gay shit, I'm trying to show you this shit."
I said: "We got known informants videoing these yards trying to make a fast buck by selling videos to the media vampires, and trying to maintain their informant reliability states by turning your "pants down" into "gay shit," into "sex shit."
After a brief exchange, the youngster pulled his pants up, and although he didn't say it, I have to admit the "elephant in the room":
Us LGBTQI+ people want others to allow us to be ourselves around them, but straight people can't be themselves around us without a lecture, lesson, or an "EVERYbodies looking."
So while we are being open, about who, and what we are, we often forget that our straight allies also experience the same discrimination because of associating with us, in an environment crawling with the so-called Deathrow Gay Taskforce, inmate secondary investigative informant agents videoing the yards like the vampires in the enclosed photo.
The irony for me is that at one time, during the time this photo was taken, all 3 of us in this photo was sexually active with each other, notice the full arm on my leg in this photo, but 2 things happened, the dark heavy set one didn't appreciate only watching while me and the younger one in the glasses made love without him, and the other reason I left them to each other was the darker one wouldn't tell his wife about us because he said he couldn't afford for her to get mad and put him on blast for being "Jailhouse bisexual," especially since she was arrested and in the newspaper for smuggling drugs into San Quentin, and was cooperating with prison goon squad officers to inform on other inmates.
So on one hand, he's afraid that his own wife would put him on blast and leave him if she knew about all 3 of us being sexually active on the yard, but then turn around and forced me off of the yard by providing the officer's false homosexual activity information about me, please see pages 20 & 21 of Azande Press Zine Neo-Urban Gatekeeper's 6 issue
for CDCR-115 Rule Violations Report @:
South Chicago ABC Zine Distro
P.O. Box 721. Homewood, IL. 60430
anthonyrayson@hotmail.com