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Cruel but Not Unusual: The Punishment of Women in U.S. Prisons: An Interview with Marilyn Buck and Laura Whitehorn - Monthly Review
Marilyn Buck’s address is #00482-285, FCI Dublin Unit B, 5701 8th St. Camp Parks, Dublin, CA 94568. Laura Whitehorn is an editor at POZ magazine. Susie Day is a freelance... READ MORE
... the main thing is that I recognized, after the first five years of being imprisoned and on trial a lot, that one tends to build one’s walls. Which means that you begin to censor yourself, so that they can’t censor you.
I censored how I spoke to people, how I interacted. It goes in tandem with, “If I button my shirt the way they want, they won’t attack me for not buttoning my shirt properly.” In some ways, I found myself trying to be a “good girl,” because then maybe they’d see I wasn’t a “bad girl.”
When I got a handle on what I was doing, I was horrified, because how can you be a women’s liberationist and worry about being a good girl or a bad girl? What I believed in my gut was being turned inside out by my actual life. And it made me understand a lot more about how any woman—it doesn’t matter who you are or what you think—can get in a relationship with another person—generally a man, but not always—who can become your abuser, your owner.





