Inside Voices

The sixth grade, eleven years old and trying so hard to fit somewhere. The in thing in my world right now is the pink ladies club… It is...

This has no name because it doesn’t matter she doesn’t matter She’ll do it, just take them, it to her. Shes not busy, it doesn’t matter...

I remember a time when my life felt like prison. All the things that had to be done. If not human beings would go hungry, dirty, get...

Reclaiming the Challenge: Criminal Justice Many return to their families and communities with complex and challenging needs. Thoughts,...

When Alisia answered the phone she was sobbing to the point I couldn’t realy understand. mom it only happened once I didn’t like it. Lil...

The whole reason I decide to take the interstate is because it’s my first time placing Roxies in my butthole. Actually I wouldn’t call it...

Growing up a Rivera meant something huge to my father. My father is 100% Puerto Rican, right off the boa. His words, not mine, but a...

If you’re going to live in this house around my girls, things are going to be done my way. You can’t eat, what makes you think you can...

Born and breed to procreate and Submit to my husband, also Know as the head of my family. In my mind just as much my jailor as the prison...

Something so huge, life altering, so scary slowed down into what felt like it was being rewound by an outside source. In my mind I wasn’t...