Survivors of Police State Violence

I am the former author of the blog arizonaprisonwatch.org (2009-2015), and have recently returned to the Phoenix area. I am a queer, disabled, guerilla artist, freelance writer, and prison abolitionist.

I was educated and trained as a social worker; thus I have a long history of doing outreach to folks who are homeless, building programs for high risk tenants, advocating for those who have been labeled "mentally ill", and investigating abuses in state custody. I've since left the profession, due to the harmful role I've seen so many social workers play as arms/agents of the state.

I am also a survivor of police state violence, myself, and more interested in mutual aid collectives and community-building than in what the "helping professions" have to offer anymore.

I created this blog to make accessible to the community, especially anti-state activists, the resources and information I wish I knew I needed and how to use when I came under attack. That may include some more traditional institutional resources for now to help people navigate these systems, but that doesn't mean I necessarily endorse every tool, so "take what you need and leave the rest", as they say.

If you share an interest in helping others recover from police brutality, the trauma of imprisonment, and the abuses of the medical/psychiatric industrial complex, please email me at arizonaprisonwatch (at) gmail.com or contact me at 480-580-6807.

Blessings and thanks to all those also trying to push back on the BS out there.

City of MESA's PRISONERS