Justice is sisterhoodand solidarity
Justice is sisterhoodand solidarity
Nakishia SullivanI always tell myself I must keep going because I have to always be everybody else's advocate that's behind me and think that you can't do this. I can't do this. I really hate the word “can’t”. And I hate the word “limitations”... I just think being heard is the most important. That's where it starts. I mean, being able to identify what you went through, and being able to know where you was, and then being able to take the direct path of where you’re gonna go.
Grandma PhyllisSisterhood developed everywhere I went That’s how I got the name Grandma
We have to extend ourselvesJudy Clark
We are not the only ones struggling
Who do you think makes the situation it is
Trying to pit groups against each other instead of understanding how connected we all are
At the core of them [feminist circles] are real people, you know, that are dreaming and living and inspiring and inspired to do more than we are, more than we've ever been. And so this has been important to me to see that we can all be one, one community of people, and not one time, has it been a barrier between who’sjustice impacted and who is not. Thing is, that we're all here and we have power.Jhody Polk
I’ve only been out two years now. I tell people everything I lost. I came back but I came back 10 times over. So that's why I had to join this [call] today. Jhody has always been a great mentor for me, even though I'm older than her by about a decade. Her words, encouragement or motivation has always made me be determined to do even more. I was already there but she's pushed me 10 times over.Patricia High
When thinking about that how many people’s voices get unheard in all kinds of places – I think about the amazing lawyers that are incarcerated, law students that are incarcerated, people that are incarcerated in their own neighborhoods. I think the power of honoring our humanity that those people get to actually be accessible to everybody, and we get to meet one another. And we get to like you said ask what happened to you? We get to actually ask that question and get to hear the answer, and I can only imagine what's on the other side of that.Jhody Polk
My ultimate goal is to be able to go back into prisons and be able to share my story. Because I only can imagine how many women in our whole lives had a baby in prison.Nakishia Sullivan
I want to be able to pull more people up to my level. Like we had to settle for anything.. I mean, I just need you to know there, is nothing in the world that you cannot have, and you may have to fight a little harder. Sometimes you got to find a little longer.Nakishia Sullivan
But just don’t ever give up on finding something that you really want.
I don’t go out. Mostly, all I do is go to work and come home. I could count on one hand how many friends that I know that are friends, like deep down can call at 2 or 3 or 4 o’clock in the morning. If I’m going through something, if I need any type of assistance, if I need someone to talk to, five people in my life I know I can call on. My [personal] business won’t be repeated. They don’t talk down to me. They don’t criticize me. They don’t look at me any different than what they were looking at me before because they know people go through things in life. They know about my past. But they also know about my future.Patricia High
So with everything that I’m doing, and everything that I’ve obtained, I was still a good person, a good friend to a lot of people. And so they are steady, like people always calling me asking for help. I watch people’s kids, like I got so much stuff going on, it doesn’t matter. They always know when they need someone to talk to or a helping hand they can call me. That’s the only reason I signed up for the Zoom meeting, because I get back so much moreeven in fights and different resources throughout the community.
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