And even farther, I would say that censorship not only is about language and ideas or communication,

it is actually about time, it is about space, and it is about bodies, or even actions and events.

And so. I'm. I'm.

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Today, I'm really excited to be joined by Empowerment Avenue social justice writer, abolition

theorist, and community organizer, Jessica Phoenix, Sylvia. Jessica is one of the contributors to the book The Press in Prison, recently published by

Haymarket Books and Scalawag Media.

She is currently working with the study and struggle program and also the author of a recent

piece in Penn America called Prison Book Bands Protect Mass Incarceration.

Jess, welcome to the death panel.

It's so great to have you here today.

Thank you so much for having me on your show.

To start us off, do you mind telling our listeners who might not be familiar with your work

a little bit about your writing, how you came to writing, and also maybe this is a way for us to get into the

piece that you contributed to the Press in Prison Guidebook. Yeah, I'm a formerly incarcerated

trans woman of color, and I was incarcerated for 18 and a half years on a domestic violence

related charge, which involved my mother's ex-husband,

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