Stranger Inside

Stranger Inside is a television drama film directed by Cheryl Dunye that premiered on cable television in 2001. The story primarily concerns AfricanAmerican lesbians in prison. Michael Stipe, the lead singer of R.E.M., helped to produce it. In a 2004 issue of Feminist Studies, Dunye stated that she worked with actual female inmates to produce the script.

When Treasure asks about Brownie, Leisha responds, Im about getting up out of here. I aint about no Brownie. Later, Shadow points Brownie out to her on the basketball court. Brownie knocks a player down, injuring her, and demands that another person take her place. Treasure volunteers for the position. Back in the cells, Treasure approaches Brownie around her prison family. She pulls out a photo of a woman and says to Brownie that she is her mother and her reason for being in prison. Brownies daughters protest that the photograph is not of Brownie. Brownie asks the daughters to leave and yells at Treasure, stating it is her own fault she is in jail.Treasure is playing cards with Leisha and Shadow when she begins flirting with an inmate named Sugar Patrice Fisher. Kit Rain Phoenix, Brownies main daughter, chides the woman for not meeting her in the chapel for their usual sexual relations. A fight breaks out between Treasure and Kit that results in both being placed in solitary confinement. While confined, Brownie speaks through a wall telling Treasure that they should meet once she is released. Once back in the general population, Brownie meets with Treasure alone and states that she did not know about her because she was taken away at birth. She admits, I failed you. Treasure cries on her shoulder. ........

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