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  The Fire Inside
 Issue 29 - Fall/Winter 2004

< Dedication
 
< To All Mothers in Prison
 
< A Bill of Rights for children
 
< Stress on families
 
< Mother-daughter in prison
 
< Family values
 
< Valores Familiares
 
< Our Voices Within: Our Journey
 
< Parole Beat
 
< Judi Ricci, Presente!
 
< Theresa Azochar, Presente!
 
< Book review: Couldn't Keep It to Myself
 
< Charisse Shumate video
 
< Mujeres, Latinas y madres: la triple resistencia
 
< Women, Latinas and mothers: the triple resistance
 
< Peace and Justice Community Summits
 
< Family is Hard Won
 
< Prison Tears Families Apart
 
< Giving Voice to Family Members
 
< It's Your Health
 
< To pregnant women in prison
 
< Disappointments with Prop 66 and Prop 69 Results
 
< Asian Prisoners' Revolution
 
       

Family is Hard Won

AnnaBell Chapa, CCWF

Many family members deny you when you come to prison. My relationship with my sister-in-law, for example, is very shaky. Her son came out at his high-school graduation to 200 people. He told them that talking with me (I was telling him that he should be who he is) and reading my letters was what convinced him to come out of the closet. His mom still blames me.

In spite of being in prison, my mom and my nephew don’t judge me for being a lesbian, nor for messing up my life the way I did. My time goes by easier when I receive loving letters and feel the unconditional love, not to mention a visit, from my mom.


Last updated August 11, 2005 06:40 PM


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