Linda Evans (radical) - Life Since Prison

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.”