The third interview with Lauren, formerly known as Lawrence.  
“Hood to Heels” is the unbelievable true story of Lawrence, a child raised in American ghetto circumstances who became the epitome of extreme violence while at the same time holding tight an inner secret of female identity.
 
Prepare yourself to look behind the curtain. You will find out how crimes, such as carjacking and crack dealing, are perpetrated. You will stay up late with Lawrence, as his mind swirls in the consideration of who he is. You will witness the racial divisions found in Los Angeles neighborhoods pitting Hispanic gangs against black American gangs. Finally, you will visit the prison psychologist with Lawrence and, with Lawrence transitioned to Lauren, you will confront former gang associates as they challenge her identity.
 
Hold tight for an L.A. story Hollywood cannot handle: Hood to Heels.

Hood to Heels Interview Three

The fifth interview with Lauren, formerly known as Lawrence.  
“Hood to Heels” is the unbelievable true story of Lawrence, a child raised in American ghetto circumstances who became the epitome of extreme violence while at the same time holding tight an inner secret of female identity.
 
Prepare yourself to look behind the curtain. You will find out how crimes, such as carjacking and crack dealing, are perpetrated. You will stay up late with Lawrence, as his mind swirls in the consideration of who he is. You will witness the racial divisions found in Los Angeles neighborhoods pitting Hispanic gangs against black American gangs. Finally, you will visit the prison psychologist with Lawrence and, with Lawrence transitioned to Lauren, you will confront former gang associates as they challenge her identity.
 
Hold tight for an L.A. story Hollywood cannot handle: Hood to Heels.

Hood to Heels Interview Five

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“Hood to Heels” is the unbelievable true story of Lawrence, a child raised in American ghetto circumstances who became the epitome of extreme violence while at the same time holding tight an inner secret of female identity.
 
Prepare yourself to look behind the curtain. You will find out how crimes, such as carjacking and crack dealing, are perpetrated. You will stay up late with Lawrence, as his mind swirls in the consideration of who he is. You will witness the racial divisions found in Los Angeles neighborhoods pitting Hispanic gangs against black American gangs. Finally, you will visit the prison psychologist with Lawrence and, with Lawrence transitioned to Lauren, you will confront former gang associates as they challenge her identity.
 
Hold tight for an L.A. story Hollywood cannot handle: Hood to Heels.

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The sixth interview with Lauren, formerly known as Lawrence.  
“Hood to Heels” is the unbelievable true story of Lawrence, a child raised in American ghetto circumstances who became the epitome of extreme violence while at the same time holding tight an inner secret of female identity.
 
Prepare yourself to look behind the curtain. You will find out how crimes, such as carjacking and crack dealing, are perpetrated. You will stay up late with Lawrence, as his mind swirls in the consideration of who he is. You will witness the racial divisions found in Los Angeles neighborhoods pitting Hispanic gangs against black American gangs. Finally, you will visit the prison psychologist with Lawrence and, with Lawrence transitioned to Lauren, you will confront former gang associates as they challenge her identity.
 
Hold tight for an L.A. story Hollywood cannot handle: Hood to Heels.

Hood to Heels Interview Six

The fourth interview with Lauren, formerly known as Lawrence.  
“Hood to Heels” is the unbelievable true story of Lawrence, a child raised in American ghetto circumstances who became the epitome of extreme violence while at the same time holding tight an inner secret of female identity.
 
Prepare yourself to look behind the curtain. You will find out how crimes, such as carjacking and crack dealing, are perpetrated. You will stay up late with Lawrence, as his mind swirls in the consideration of who he is. You will witness the racial divisions found in Los Angeles neighborhoods pitting Hispanic gangs against black American gangs. Finally, you will visit the prison psychologist with Lawrence and, with Lawrence transitioned to Lauren, you will confront former gang associates as they challenge her identity.
 
Hold tight for an L.A. story Hollywood cannot handle: Hood to Heels.

Hood to Heels Interview Four

Cjay is a transgender woman of color, housed in San Quentin, the San Francisco Bay Area’s internationally known California state prison.  Cjay has been in nearly as many prisons as she has fingers yet nothing in her upbringing predestined her for crime.  Addiction does that to people, turns the good bad.  Cjay loved and hated drugs.  Drugs allowed her mind to rest but her mind could not rest without drugs.  Her mind, in fact, was spinning with pain, guilt, and rejection.  Being transgender, especially, in the 1980's and 1990's was the life of a pariah.  Fortunately for Cjay, she had her fellow trans-sisters. 
Holler at your girl is a one of a kind account of a presently incarcerated transgender woman who from an early age knew her identity yet suffered immense trials before finding her soul.

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Mouthpiece is a brutally told biographical sketch of an incarcerated pimp, in prison for human trafficking. Raw boasts and brazen inner-city tales litter the story’s violent, unrepentant landscape.

Like a marked man, Mouthpiece keeps after the reader with a cold perspective.  Money is the aim and young women are the product.

Bullets fly, tears drop, and children watch, Mouthpiece communicates the pride and prejudices of a warrior-pimp seizing plunder, camaraderie, and a demigod sense of self, through violence, street credentials, and psychological manipulation.

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Mouthpiece Interview One

Brian Shipp is a risk taker.  He skis black diamond slopes, throttles fast moving motorcycles, and cherishes the thrill of an occasional misdeed. He is a young man with a twinkle in his eye and a propensity for getting caught.  Through hard work and charm, he races his way to the top, only, time after time, to find himself crashing down due to ill-conceived schemes.
“38 Years Later” is a post-modern tale of a youth from a broken background making sense of the world by giving his all to every endeavor, be it unlawful or good-natured.  It is the tale of a life in progress, to this day.  
Brian is the youngest child of three in a tradition-minded middle-class family that disintegrates during the days of the 1960’s cultural shift.  Similar to the times, Brian lives a life split between quicker, easier, yet riskier means of moving forward, namely illicit activities, and the steady character and work ethic he inherited from his father.  
Brian is not all strength nor immune to loss.  The loss of a unified family and later, in his teenage years, a loss of a strong sense of personal identity form trying times for a gifted young man pulled by opposing internal dialogs on how to establish himself in the world.   
“38 Years Later” covers two periods in Brian’s life, before prison and life in prison.  The before prison story takes the reader through Brian’s upbringing and early life choices while living in the San Francisco Bay Area.  The before prison story also covers in detail the extraordinary play-by-play of Brian’s 1980 commitment offense, an offense for which he remains in prison today.
The life in prison story reveals how time does not stop when men face the world in shackles. Follow Brian as he states his nuptial agreement in the confines of prison.  Laugh with Brian as his firstborn “springs a leak,” while having his diaper changed in the prison visiting room.  Work with Brian as he builds a business from prison that makes it possible for his family to purchase their California home.  Finally, stand with Brian as it all crashes down.
Brian’s story is a tale of redemption and a tale that exemplifies the enduring character of human hope.

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