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Straight Ally Session (a)

AZANDE Press Zines Presents
The Historical 1st, Condemned LGBTQ+ Affirming Group.

Friday July 7, 2023
Sound Mind Company Session #2
Facilitator, Rosa - RT (sa)
Location, SQSP Hospital Group Room 3.
Traditional, 5 minute Meditation

Session began with a brief introduction/pronoun Round due to the large contingent of invited STRAIGHT ALLIES (sa).

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Floyd (g), the groups founding curator, presented the multimedia vision of the provided services of Incarcerated Queer Affirming Programming to include accepting an invitation for the group to participate in an EAR Hustle type interview, the famous SQ Media Center Podcast for this ideation production would need experience a name makeover into the tentatively tiled, (Queer Hustle).
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Todays session's primary focus; for creative writers to engage expanding visibility of individual projects with content upgrades to develop new social media endeavors.

Byron (sa), delivered a crash course into this new social media platform that networks connectivity between the incarcerated, and society, for which the reader is now engaging.

Floyd (g), commented that he believes this idea is vital to the group to deliver a never before look into the life minds and forthcoming works of the last generation of Death Row Residents in California

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Mike (sa), accompanied by an Irish ethnographic TYPE beat, relayed a powerful story about how his former racist views destroyed this relationship with his gay brother, via details so disrespectful and mortifying, that not even this account is an appropriate medium for transmission.

Frank (sa), accompanied by a Mexican ethnographic TYPE beat, recited an expressive poem about a former girlfriend, where passion, vulnerability, and youthful immaturity was survived by wisdom and wellness of adult versions of the pair willing to value friendship over time.

Miss Robinson (t-girl), accompanied by a Jungle TYPE beat, graced the space with a stanza from her work, dedicated to the memory of another condemned resident who was transferred to another state, and was executed, the incredible irony of this piece exposed how fellow California Condemned Residents and proffessed comrads of the executed/murdered human, found the tragety, amusing.

This program was not created for us to sit around and talk about how gay we are, this group was created for everyone to have a voice that offers creative expression, a safe space to land, and generating affirming opportunities through multimedia endeavors that exist as the true definition of, self help programming.

This is, The Sound Mind Company, another Sound Mirid Streamer ideation. Presented by The Azande Press Zines Incarcerated Queer Media Network

-parallaxboi . curator

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