The following is a guest blog post, under the series “Rene Records”–Rene is currently incarcerated in a federal prison in Alabama. Please consider giving to her commissary fundraiser (funds are also used to support her reading group and fellow political prisoners). You can also support her boo here, as well as her co-defendant Cody, here. The best method of support for her other co-defendant, MJ, is to send donations to $JohnLungaho on CashApp.
Book Club Update 8/11 from Aliceville Prison Camp
We just finished Two or Three Things I Know for Sure by Dorothy Allison, the girls enjoyed it and we had a good discussion on it! A lot of the girls related to Allison’s experiences in the book and there was a good discussion on what it’s like growing up in rural poverty and trying to go out in the world and “make it,” as well as discussion on how childhood trauma affects your adult life and especially one’s relationship to sex and sexuality.
The next book we plan to read is Bastard Out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison, and following that, Corrections in Ink by Keri Blakinger!
We’ve linked the book titles to listings at Bluestockings Cooperative, so y’all can read along with Rene and her comrades!
Rene is a queer Korean journalist, sex worker, political prisoner and beloved comrade. You can find her writing at Autostraddle • Truthout • ThoughtCatalog • Arkansas Public Media • and KUAR.