#michelle is jewish & jennifer is converting i believe

[gastromancer]

On April 11th, 48-year-old Jennifer and 39-year-old Michelle were wed in the facility’s first-ever marriage between two women. Ever since I first started corresponding with Michelle in 2017, I’ve seen her story through the singular prism of her battle to survive as a trans woman in Department of Corrections custody, to eke out a space where she could medically transition and live safely among other women. But on the couple’s happy day, under a clear blue sky, I drove out to Edna—located about one hour west of Brooklyn, on New Jersey’s rural border with Pennsylvania—to witness a different kind of story. Even amid the horrors of mass incarceration, life continues behind bars just as it does under any other difficult circumstances. Michelle and Jen had fallen in love, and now they were going to celebrate.

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