Daughters Magazine
Daughters is a new magazine edited by Sarita Miller in collaboration with Let’s Get Free. The first issue was published in December of 2020. This page contains highlights from the magazine and links to download each issue as a PDF.
Daughters is a faith-based, political publication founded by Sarita Miller (SCI Muncy) that aims to illuminate issues and perspectives, specifically those of women, pertaining to the crisis of mass incarceration in this country. A platform for us and by us, Daughters will be a pathway to the expression of our fears, our struggles, our pain and our needs. Although for now we are confined, our spirits and voices soar free.
In 2021 we published two issues of Daughter’s and two issues of the Let’s Get Free newsletter magazine and decided it would make better sense to merge the two. The Spring of 2022 was our first officially united publication themed around issues of domestic violence. 💗
Contact: Daughters ℅ Let’s Get Free 460 Melwood Ave #300 Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Email: letsgetfreepa(at)gmail.com
Daughters #9
Let’s Get Free’s Magazine
Summer 2023
Issue 9 Highlights the Picture a Free World Art Show with cover painting by Dominic Newsome. Sarita writes on the complexity of holding both identities of being a survivor violence and a person responsible for harm. Read poems and essays from inside of prisons across PA.
Daughter’s Magazine #8
Let’s Get Free’s 2023
Spring Magazine
Issue 8 highlights Tameka Flowers and Sacred Dance, a new column called Level Up featuring accomplishments of women on the inside, new writing by Mi Gente, commutation updates and more. Cover designed by LMNOPI This portrait was created on a typewriter and has secret messages.
Daughter’s Magazine #7
Let’s Get Free’s 2022
Winter Magazine
Let Grandma Go is the theme of this issue focusing on aging in prison, the realities of prison food, commissary inflation and more.
Daughter’s Magazine #6
Let’s Get Free’s 2022
Summer Magazine
Racism from a different perspective, introducing Mi Gente! Una nueva columna por y para hispanohablantes, Daughter’s Speak interviews Tequilla Fields and the Behind the Gates Music Ministry.
Daughter’s Magazine #5
Let’s Get Free’s 2022
Spring Magazine
Domestic Violence, Mental Health, Commutation Updates and Inequities Across PA Prisons.
Let’s Get Free – 2022
Winter Magazine
Daughters Magazine
Summer 2021
Topics highlighted in Issue 2 include:
- Mental health: trauma, covid-19, stigma, and more.
- Interviews with some “Queens Behind the Movement”
- Spotlight on art and writing by ALOK
- Relationships, jealousy, and codependency
- Commutation, the board of pardons, and legal issues
- …and so much more!
Let’s Get Free Newsletter Spring 2021
Let’s Get Free Newsletter
Spring 2021
Daughters Magazine
Issue 1 – December 2020
Topics highlighted in Issue 1 include:
- Women’s health and experiencing menopause while incarcerated
- Prisons and addiction treatment
- Poetry, art, interviews, and more!
I’ve witnessed more women than I choose to admit suffer in prison from lack of adequate healthcare.
-Sarita Miller, “Menopause: the Nemesis of Eve”
I believe any prison sentence that eliminates the hope of one day being released should be considered cruel. Unfortunately, in Pennsylvania, it is not all that unusual.
– Heather Lavelle, “Unintended Consequences”
Training with staff is necessary to deal with the high level of women dealing with mental health issues and drug addiction. There should be stages of levels of care in dealing with residents.
– Interview with Nahesa Gray