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Ga lo Vann

Articles by Ga lo Vann

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    Ga lo Vann poses for a photo. He is wearing a button up top and has his hair in two braids.

    Opinion | Reckoning with history

    The historical impact of sexual violence in Native communities explains why some are not welcome in our spiritual spaces
    By
    Ga lo Vann
    May 18, 2022
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    A photo illustration shows the silhouette of adult with a child walking on train tracks

    Opinion | The boy who loved the father in his dream

    Ga lo Vann shares the story of the first hanbleceya and with it reveals the curse of modern-day America and how it has played out in the life of a man sent to prison for killing his sexual abusers as a boy
    By
    Ga lo Vann
    July 7, 2021
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    An illustration of TeTe Gulley

    Opinion | TeTe Gulley helped me learn how to forgive myself

    The last time columnist Ga lo Vann saw her, it was on the news: The Black trans woman had been found hanging from a noose in a tree
    By
    Ga lo Vann
    May 19, 2021
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    Lennard Ward's mugshot and an aerial photo of OSCI's campus

    Opinion | How excessive mandatory sentencing continues slavery’s legacy

    Today, the institution of mass incarceration subjects Lennard Ward to the same discrimination inflicted on his ancestors
    By
    Ga lo Vann
    May 5, 2021
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    Barbed wire fence

    Opinion | Defeat the prison system’s problems the way a vaccine defeats a virus

    By learning from the source. Trauma is a virus, and we prisoners cannot change this alone.
    By
    Ga lo Vann
    March 31, 2021
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    Opinion | A prisoner’s perspective: This moment is about more than COVID-19

    ‘We all share the same surfaces because we are less than you, smaller spaces because we are less than you’
    By
    Ga lo Vann
    March 10, 2021

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