Team Raelynn

Hi all, I'm just making a new pinned post.

This blog is a place for three trans prisoners to share their experiences. We started when Jaina and Ashley were unfairly punished and we asked the community for help. You can read more about that here. Now Jaina, Ashley, and Pharaoh are sharing their experiences and art here.

Jaina (she/her) is a trans woman with a passion for writing, dungeon and dragons, Rick and Morty, and crafting creative boxes out of items she can get in prison. She and Ashley have unofficially adopted each other as sisters.

Ashley (she/her) is also a trans woman who runs the D&D games (as well as pathfinder), plays Magic the Gathering (with playing cards that have the MtG card text written on them, a popular game at the prison), draws, paints, and loves video games. Check out her deviant art here.

Pharaoh (they/them) is a gender nonconforming person who loves drawing, painting, gardening, drag, and motorcycles. They cook meals for the three of them with what the three of them can purchase with their limited funds. You can purchase Pharaoh's art at enbywerewolf's etsy store.

This blog is run by @enbycarp. I'm a nonbinary trans guy (they/he) who is penpals with all three of the blog contributors. My art blog is @enbywerewolf

I have prepared exerpts from the Christian Bible's book of Proverbs for the Trump Administration to consider before declaring their actions are in keeping with the Christian faith.

Even if you're not a believer, this is a good read, because this is all from the Holy Book of the faith these people proclaim. It highlights the hypocrisy.

I apologize for using the "King James" translation, but the more modernized translations just don't pack the same punch. Here we go: From the book of Proverbs:

3:31 Envy thou not the oppressor, and choose none of his ways.

6:16 These six things doth the LORD hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him: 6:17 A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, 6:18 An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief, 6:19 A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.

10:17 He is in the way of life that keepeth instruction: but he that refuseth reproof erreth.

11:2 When pride cometh, then cometh shame: but with the lowly is wisdom.

11:12 He that is void of wisdom despiseth his neighbour: but a man of understanding holdeth his peace.

11:17 The merciful man doeth good to his own soul: but he that is cruel troubleth his own flesh.

11:28 He that trusteth in his riches shall fall but the righteous shall flourish as a branch.

12:1 Whoso loveth instruction loveth knowledge: but he that hateth reproof is brutish.

12:15 The way of a fool is right in his own eyes: but he that hearkeneth unto counsel is wise.

12:22 Lying lips are abomination to the LORD: but they that deal truly are his delight.

13:7 There is that maketh himself rich, yet hath nothing: there is that maketh himself poor, yet hath great riches.

14:8 The wisdom of the prudent is to understand his way: but the folly of fools is deceit.

14:16 A wise man feareth, and departeth from evil: but the fool rageth, and is confident.

14:21 He that despiseth his neighbour sinneth: but he that hath mercy on the poor, happy is he.

14:29 He that is slow to wrath is of great understanding: but he that is hasty of spirit exalteth folly.

14:31 He that oppresseth the poor reproacheth his Maker: but he that honoureth him hath mercy on the poor.

15:27 He that is greedy of gain troubleth his own house but he that hateth gifts shall live.

16:18 Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall. 16:19 Better it is to be of an humble spirit with the lowly, than to divide the spoil with the proud.

Dancia Noble

She's running for a state house seat.

She's a prison reform champion. We NEED her in office. I'm getting this from several reliable sources urging me to get her name out there.

Get the word out, put it on the blog, read up on her politics if you need to.

Blog:

The Republican Party has become the anti-trans/antiabortion party. That's ALL they stand for anymore.

Corruption in Washington? Republicans don't mind. Wars overseas? excuses and equivocations. 2nd amendment? More of a guideline, doesn't apply to everyone. Healthcare? Don't care. Affordability? but the stock market is booming!?

Yay! we can ban reproductive healthcare! Yay! we can discriminate against transgender people!

When we get money sent in, there are deductions. 20% for "cost of incarceration services" and 5% for "crime victim compensation"

CVC is separate from restitution. It is a fund that exists to help crime victims. Explain to me why COIS would be quadruple what gets set aside for victims?

The whole point of the justice system is to get justice for the victims, not to maximize the budget for the prison industrial complex so that they can hire more CO's to stand around telling minimum security inmates to tuck their t-shirts into their gym shorts.

COIS is just a tax directed at the family and friends of the incarcerated. A tax to punish THEM for supporting an incarcerated person. A tax which cleverly circumvents the appropriations process of the legislature and goes directly into DOC's budget, so that they can waste it on stupid unnecessary shit instead of important things like making the food healthier and less full of sugar.

Oh and yes there is money budgeted for food already, but don't get me started on how corrupt that system is, and how supplies and funds get diverted into the staff dining kitchen where an overflowing plate of actual delicious food is handed out to staff who get paid handsomely for $4.50, while they lie on paper about the actual portion sizes and nutritional value on inmate trays.

Back to COIS though. If it bothers you that DOC gets 20% and Victims get 5%, it'll bother you even more if you try to research how that 20% gets spent, good luck getting a believable answer.

So, recently, matters with the education department here at SCCC have gotten MORE ridiculous. First, the tech guy got walked-off. (Getting walked doesn't always mean a staff member is gone for good, sometimes it just means there's an investigation, but 9 times out of 10 when a staff member gets walked it means they are fired.) So, with the tech guy gone, students got set back because day-to-day I.T. issues weren't addressed for a few weeks. They finally got that debacle under control, just in time to walk the Educational Navigator off as well. No idea what these staff members did, I encourage people to find out, it shouldn't stay a secret.

To make matters worse, under recent changes, the direct supervisor for ALL the Classroom Assistants is no longer the teacher for whichever class they assist, but instead we report to some college administrator with whom we have very little interaction. This person does not in any factual sense directly supervise us. I'd love to know the explanation for why that change was necessary or prudent.

Let's talk about capitalism. I may have done this before, but with Elon Musk becoming the first trillionaire, I think this is an appropriate topic.

The basis of capitalism is set on the idea that as the rich get richer, so will everyone else, in a trickle down effect. It relies on a flawed premise that there will be infinite growth. The infinite growth model works theoretically. In mathematics we have formulas and equations which deal with the concept of infinity. Some day someone will have a thousand trillions whatever that's called. Money itself is theoretical.

The problem is that the real resources accessible to humanity are finite.

It doesn't matter how much money we claim exists, there is a finite amount of actual stuff we can use. Some of those resources are on earth, some are elsewhere in our solar system, but they are finite nonetheless.

So, Elon wants to fuck-off to Mars with a colony of his worker bees, but where does that leave the rest of us? Will Elon still own assets on earth? Of course he will, but eventually the colony on Mars will be self sufficient. Ever seen the movie Elysium? Sort of has that vibe doesn't it? So, someone will be able to own an enormous share of the resources here on Earth, without actually being here on earth.

When resources start leaving earth to support people who don't need to live here anymore, do you think the captains of industry will care about climate change or clean energy? They will consume this finite sphere right from under us, and they will build a new world for themselves to rule, and they will use their infinitely increasing "wealth" to con the rest of us into supporting this new world. Meanwhile AI swindles us into thinking it will allow us to do more, when in fact it is simply learning to do everything we do, so that one day the trillionaires won't even need us.

The problem with capitalism is that the people who invented the system didn't know that one day we would have access to other worlds in our finite solar system, they didn't consider the finite nature of reality, they only dreamed with the infinite capacity of imagination.

It is exceedingly ironic how petty WA DOC can be about what does and doesn't constitute a safety and security concern.

Here is a brief list of examples of things that WA DOC has not allowed people to have, receive, access, wear, or do over the last year:

Underwire Bras Anime images in which characters are scantily clad A bound set of blank character sheets for Pathfinder First Edition Polyhedral Dice for role playing games Magic the Gathering cards Plastic coat hangers R-rated movie channels Risque art books No. 2 pencils Wearing untucked shirts hats indoors unmade beds sweatpants in the chow hall etc.

The following is a list of all the offenses which have caused DOC staff to be fired and/or arrested in the past year:

Introduction of contraband: illicit substances Introduction of contraband: pornography Introduction of contraband: unauthorized communication device (cell phones) Sexual Misconduct Inappropriate Relationships with the incarcerated Possession of Child Pornography

Real shit.

Bill Pulte as Director of National intelligence? He has never even held a security clearance before! This is signalgate 2.0 waiting to happen.

What about the "merit based system" we were promised when Trump dismantled DEI? Making America Great Again! One unqualified white man at a time.