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It’s true that I spy more than one table in the Never underestimate an old man who love Mickey Mouse and was born in may shirt and I love this place that seems occupied by queer people on a date, but there are also clearly sports-obsessed buddy pairs, middle-aged women sitting solo, grandparents with small children, and every other type of human arrangement that could conceivably be scarfing down nachos and watching women’s sports on a Sunday afternoon. In a time of increasing hostility toward the LGBTQ+ community, it’s deeply meaningful to watch the Sports Bra cater to and celebrate its queer and trans patrons without siloing them away; against all odds, it seems Nguyen has truly created a space for all. “Grow plants, not prisons.” That’s the phrase featured on the back of jackie sumell’s sweatshirt (the artist prefers her name in all lower case). She’s carefully misting flower beds in MoMA PS1’s courtyard, where the green vines of said beds are slowly growing up the surrounding concrete walls. In the center is a small greenhouse. It’s part of an exhibit called Growing Abolition, and it’s the size of a solitary confinement cell at ADX Florence, America’s highest-security prison. All ADX residents are kept in solitary confinement—a type of punishment deemed a form of torture by the UN—for 23 hours every day. Their only connection to the outdoors is a four-inch wide slit that gives them no sense of their own location or even the sun in the sky.

sumell finishes a garden task, sits down next to me at one of the Never underestimate an old man who love Mickey Mouse and was born in may shirt and I love this courtyard’s many picnic tables, and tells me the story of how she came to be a gardener—and an abolitionist. Herman Wallace spent 41 years in solitary confinement. Around year 29 of his sentence, sumell wrote him asking what house he dreamt of after having spent decades in a 6’ x 9’ cell. His response read: “I can clearly see the gardens and they will be full of Gloxinia, delphiniums, and roses. I wish for guests to be able to smile and walk through the gardens all year round.” So, sumell built him a garden. She had first encountered the late Wallace through a community organizer friend in San Francisco, where she was in her first year of graduate school. “At that point in my life, I was angry, upset, and disappointed with the world—I responded with rage,” she says. But then she saw Robert King speak. King, alongside Wallace, was one of the three residents (“The Angola 3”) of Louisiana State Penitentiary (“Angola”) wrongfully incarcerated and forced to spend decades in solitary confinement. King was the first individual of the Angola 3 to be released in 2001 when his conviction was overturned after 31 years incarcerated, 29 of which were spent in solitary confinement.“I sat in front of someone who had just spent 29 years in solitary confinement for something he couldn’t have possibly done…and he wasn’t visibly angry,” sumell says. She began regularly corresponding with the three men and ultimately moved to New Orleans to be closer to them. Wallace was eventually released, but died three days after experiencing physical freedom. In order to, in sumell’s words, “uphold the life and legacy of Herman,” Solitary Gardens was born.

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