People are complicated creatures.

And yes, that goes without saying, but in Ashley Seaford's memoir called Somebody's Daughter,

she writes about that fact with a clarity and grace that I have rarely read.

Somebody can be really loving and a fantastic support to you and be somebody else's worst nightmare,

be somebody else's monster, the thing that comes out of the dark.

For the first 30 years of her life, Ashley's father was in prison.

And growing up and later experiencing sexual violence as a teenager,

she began to search for a reason for it all.

And as a kid, she says, she began to wonder if the two things were connected.

There was a part of me that thought what happened to me happened because of what my father had done.

There was a part of me that thought this is me paying for his sins.

So from The Advocate magazine in partnership with Glad, I'm Jeffrey Masters, and today on LGBTQ&A, I'm talking to Ashley C. Ford, the author of the powerful new memoir,

Somebody's Daughter.

Here it is.

You know, when it comes to incarceration, we talk about the perpetrators a lot, we're beginning to talk more about

the victims and survivors, but reading your book, it really made it clear how absent from

discussions and public discussions, specifically the community is, how it affects the families

of those who are incarcerated. I don't hear that as loudly.

I would agree with you. I think that that was a huge push for me writing this book and working

on this book and telling my story as both a person who has been victimized and the person who

is in relation to someone who has been a perpetrator of the same crime.

Everything about the circumstances that I was born into, as well as the circumstances

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