Thus the truth: America has always turned its back on poor Black women and, when coupled with a criminal history, what we have is Black women being marginalized in their marginalization—locked up for surviving.
Author: Taylar Nuevelle
Taylar Nuevelle is the Founder of Who Speaks for Me?, an organization she designed while incarcerated to raise awareness about the intersection of trauma and women's incarceration. She is credited for creating the concept of the “Trauma-to-Prison Pipeline." Taylar is a mother, advocate for justice-involved women and girls, writer, public speaker and spoken word artist. She teaches the Who Speaks for Me? reading and writing group, “Sharing Our Stories to Reclaim Our Lives,” at the D.C. Jail’s Correctional Treatment Facility (CTF) and has begun to conduct trainings for practitioner’s who work with justice-involved women and girls. Her work has appeared in The Washington Post, Talk Poverty, The Nation, the Vera Institute for Justice Blog and THE DECOLINIZER.