Life Since Prison
Along with her partner, Eve Goldberg, Evans travels around the United States advocating for lesbian and female inmates' rights. Evans is involved with the activist organization the Center for Third World Organizing. In March 2002 she held a conference entitled “Tear Down the Walls,” in an attempt to gain support for giving amnesty to people she identified as political prisoners, claiming that “These political prisoners of war are women and men incarcerated because of their involvement in political activities which challenged the unjust nature of the U.S socioeconomic system." In 2003 Evans gave an interview in which she identified her sexuality as an influence for her political activities, stating that “Being a lesbian has always been an important part of the reasons why I am a revolutionary – even before I was self-conscious about how important this is to me“ and “Because I experience real oppression as a lesbian and as a women, I am personally committed from the very core of being to winning liberation for women, lesbians, and all oppressed people.”
Read more about this topic: Linda Evans (radical)
Famous quotes containing the words life and/or prison:
“We [actors] are indeed a strange lot! There are times we doubt that we have any emotions we can honestly call our own. I have approached every dynamic scene change in my life the same way. When I married Charlie MacArthur, I sat down and wondered how I could play the best wife that ever was.... My love for him was the truest thing in my life; but it was still important that I love him with proper effect, that I act loving him with great style, that I achieve the ultimate in wifedom.”
—Helen Hayes (1900–1993)
“They are sworn enemies of lyric poetry.
In prison they accompany the jailer,
Enter cells to hear confessions.
Their short-end comes down
When you least expect it.”
—Charles Simic (b. 1938)