“This work is inspired by the Women’s House of Detention, which was, for half of the 20th century, the sole prison for incarcerated women in New York City. However, because of the systemic discrimination against the LGBTQ+ community that infested all parts of the 20th century criminal legal system, the “House of D” was populated overwhelmingly by lesbians and transmaculine people. Thus the prison and the surrounding Greenwich Village became a center for queer life in midcentury New York, and despite discrimination and awful living conditions for queer women, inside and outside the prison, the communities these people built and the riots and uprisings that they partook in helped to define queerness and queer liberation the entire nation over.” –– Daisy Waters