Update from CeCe in St. Cloud: July, 2012
posted August 2, 2012
by Support CeCe!
http://supportcece.wordpress.com/2012/08/02/update-from-cece-in-st-cloud-july-2012/ (http://supportcece.wordpress.com/2012/08/02/update-from-cece-in-st-cloud-july-2012/)
CeCe is doing fine and looking fabulous. She is steadily devouring the books that everyone is sending – currently she is reading Angela Davis and is totally inspired.
[CeCe] spoke a bit about the push from some supporters to launch large-scale campaigns to get Gov. Mark Dayton to pardon her, and/or to have her moved to a women's facility. She talked about how these campaigns would not only not benefit her, but how they exceptionalize her in a way that she doesn't want.
As for being transferred to a women's facility, her thoughts are: Prison sucks. Period. CeCe is not safe in any prison, women's or men's. Prisons are not safe for anyone. Period. CeCe asserts (as do we) that incarcerated individuals should be able to decide for themselves where they would be safest within the system. For now, CeCe is fine being in a men's facility.
To sum it up: CeCe does not want supporters to launch long-term campaigns on her behalf that exceptionalize her situation. Also importantly, these specific campaigns: a pardon from Gov. Dayton and getting transferred to a women's facility, wouldn't actually be beneficial to her at all.
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Collin Gau, Warden of the Minnesota Correctional Facility-St. Cloud: Transfer CeCe McDonald to Shakopee Women's Correctional Facility
SIGN THIS PETITION
Created By
Mika Exx
Los Angeles, CA
https://www.change.org/en-GB/petitions/collin-gau-warden-of-the-minnesota-correctional-facility-st-cloud-transfer-cece-mcdonald-to-shakopee-women-s-correctional-facility?utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=share_petition (https://www.change.org/en-GB/petitions/collin-gau-warden-of-the-minnesota-correctional-facility-st-cloud-transfer-cece-mcdonald-to-shakopee-women-s-correctional-facility?utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=share_petition)
Keep CeCe McDonald safe while she serves her sentence!
Cece McDonald is a transgendered woman of color who is is being held in a men's correctional facility.
I wonder if putting M_F Trans people in the male prison population has any correlation with the prisons for profit epidemic.