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| Liza Jessie Peterson by Yoshinori Hashimoto |
By Sharon Pendana
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Jessie Peterson is an "artivist," her art and her activism
conjoined. With a deep sense of justice, it is her Libran calling to balance
its scales. "I’m an artist, but my advocacy is channeled through my
art," she says. "Everything I write about, everything I perform is through
that lens." Her decades-long entrenchment in the carceral system spans
from making the trek upstate from her Brooklyn home to visit her jailed former
lover to teaching incarcerated youths at New York City's notorious Rikers
Island Correctional Facility.
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