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View Our Latest Issue. We include a calendar so that people in solitary confinement can keep track of which day it is. Black And Pink. If you need immediate assistance, please reach out or have someone outside reach out to community blackandpink.

Scroll to Top. Being gay in prison is merely a smaller experience of what being gay in south central Phoenix is like on a normal day. But to be gay as well poses a triple challenge. It's bad enough to be Black and incarcerated.

Because of this, it could take up to months to be removed from either of our programs. Black and Pink advises pen pals to communicate up front about how often they are able to write, as incarcerated people often come to depend on the correspondences for emotional and psychological.

Both the postal service and carceral facility mail processing take a long time. To request that a newsletter be sent to someone inside and to sign them up for our PenPal programplease fill out the below form to the best of your ability.

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Periodically, the newspaper includes a form for inside members to update their PenPal listing. We appreciate your understanding and patience. Each issue is full of pieces submitted by our incarcerated members; relevant news, history, and opinions from our non-incarcerated community; and reflections from our national Executive Director.

If you are signing up on behalf of an incarcerated person, please inform them of this and discuss it with them before signing them up. View Our Older Issues. Head over to this blog post or our PenPal Pairing Site to learn more and register today!

No Yes. Remember me. Each month, we ask inside members to reply to a feedback questionnaire via mail to inform our organizing efforts. Please specify if interested in only one program. We have thousands of pairs that have joined us since the program first began in Get started.

We now have over 19, subscribers. Leon Lipscomb tells it like it is. Check out our PenPal Pairing Site to learn more about how to be an awesome PenPal and to connect with our inside family! Are you over 18 years of age? In my experience, though, being a gay man has meant that I have to be tougher, smarter, more self-reliant and more resilient than straight men, both in and out of prison.

Please consider this before signing up if you feel it may endanger you or cause inconvenience. We will reach out if we have any additional questions, and will add them to the distribution list!