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Sammy poses with an iridescent sword in front of a mossy concrete statue.
Listen to Season 1, Episode 8 of the podcast below: iTunes - Spotify - Stitcher - Google Play Music - Bandcamp
This week’s episode is an interview with Sammy Gagnon, an indie rocker from Baltimore. But first I want to talk about someone a little closer to home. About an hour’s drive south of where I live, in Lilington, North Carolina, there’s a men’s prison called Harnett Correctional. A trans woman named Kanautica Zayre-Brown is imprisoned there, and she wants to be transferred to a women’s facility. Sharing a dorm with 38 cis men is really scary, but solitary confinement is worse, and there’s no reason she should