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We also need to stop saying she’s “free”. She isn’t. She still has 10yrs probation, mandatory community service hours, and requirements for maintaining a job in order to remain unincarcerated. She’s been released from a physical prison only to enter the open air prison so many people in the carceral state are confined to.
This shouldn’t be over. She should be fully pardoned. It’s unconscionable that they can choose to incarcerate her again for any minor infractions they deem in violation of her probation. This release shouldn’t be conditional, and right now it is.
She won’t be released until August.
Over the years, Freddie never closed his eyes to change. He never let Queen follow fashion except for the one lapse into disco in Hot Space. He was always innovative with his music. As far as I know, the ability to create music is something you’re born with. It’s not something you can learn in school. He was one of the lucky ones to have been born with a surfeit of this talent which he never wasted.” - Peter ‘Phoebe’ Freestone, An Intimate Biography
