Marissa Potts

Marissa Potts is currently serving a 15-year sentence in Texas. She is a survivor of intimate partner violence and has turned her immense pain into a passion for sharing her story to save even one person. She writes for Empowerment Avenue.

Marissa Potts writes about

Bodies, Gender & Health State Power Land, Labor & Extraction State Power

What it’s like to be pregnant in jail

Marissa Potts
What it’s like to be pregnant in jail

Cooked in custody: Four incarcerated people describe dangerous conditions in Texas state prisons

Kwaneta Harris Xandan Gulley Marissa Potts Lanae Tipton
digital collage with orange background and an illustration of hands gripping bars with a thermometer on the right side