Gina Dent Quotes

Cultural critic Gina Dent has pointed out that our sense of familiarity with the prison comes in part from representations of prisons in film and other visual media.

Of course, medical marijuana and CBD are not covered by insurance, and a tiny bottle of CBD oil costs about $100. Norco, covered by insurance, costs absolutely nothing. Despite an epidemic of abuse and overdose (the fatalities of which are actually highly linked to the prescription of fentanyl, a drug that should be illegal outside of hospice situations), my opiate painkiller was “on the house” of my medical insurance, whereas THC is a Class 1 substance that could not only potentially influence a custody case but put a serious dent in my family finances.

anyone who exposed their vulnerability.” John Jeffries, “Toward a Redefinition of the Urban: The Collision of Culture,” in Black Popular Culture, ed. Gina Dent (Seattle: Bay Press 1992), 161. 107 Baraka,