🔞Ezra🔞🌈Trans!Hawks Enthusiast

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they/them | 28 | Bisexual | B3_B0 on ao3 https://linktr.ee/unlikelyjedi

Thinking again about Qifrey's restrained love of dragons, how they work into his art over and over again It masquerades to the rest of the world as an adult embarrassed by their past, more openly geeky self, when the truth is he never got the chance to be breathlessly excited in the first place

People are discussing how Halloween candy is so terrible these days. A reminder that alot of the candy we eat is made with women’s prison labor. Russell Stover’s factory in Kansas busses in 150 women a day via a convict leasing program to staff their candy factory.

Russell Stover has begun using prison labor to make candy in
Kansas
A Russell Stover candy factory in Kansas has begun hiring incarcerated workers through a work release program, Eoin Higgins reports in his newsletter, The Flashpoint. About 150 women are bussed in from the Topeka Correctional Facility and paid $14 an hour, but the prison keeps some of their wages for room and board, taxes, transportation, and other expenses. When all is said and done, they take home less than $6 per hour. These deductions are high, but elsewhere in the country, they're even higher: In our May series on prison