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Felonist Friday: Head on a Swivel

It's a new tradition: Feloni$t Friday, a Friday reflection on the current realities faced by felons. In this bonus episode, the Feloni$t dives headfirst into the emotions and triggers that …

28:54 S1E7

Are You There God, It’s Me Felonist

Something shifts in Are You There God, It's Me Felonist — not a miracle, not a revelation, but a strange, steadying clarity that feels like it comes from somewhere just …

22:42 S1E8

Sifting Drama from Truth

In Sifting Drama from Truth, the Felonist begins to separate instinct from noise, fantasy from reality, and self‑protection from self‑betrayal, capturing the messy, moment‑to‑moment mental work of surviving incarceration and …

20:33 S1E9

Holding My Head

Holding My Head marks the moment the Felonist stops collapsing into herself and begins, inch by inch, to lift her head again — literally and figuratively. Hunger, exhaustion, doubt, and …

12:19 S1E6

Who Are You? Do I Know You?

The Felonist reaches the strange, disorienting moment where she meets herself again — not the good girl, not the party girl, not the drama queen, not the caretaker, but the …

24:54 S1E5

Gone Girl

In Gone Girl, The Felonist reaches the point where she feels herself slipping away. These Rikers diary entries capture the terrifying sense of becoming unrecognizable to herself — the guilt …

21:06 S1E4

Ding Dong the Good Girl is Dead

In Ding Dong the Good Girl is Dead, something in the Felonist breaks — and something truer begins to take hold. The Felonist hits the point where the old performance …

16:48 S1E3

Something Flickers in the Darkness

In this episode of the Rikers Island Diaries, the Felonist begins to sense the first faint shift inside herself — a flicker she can’t yet name. As she writes from …

26:06 S1E2

Letters to Little Felonist

In the first entries of her Rikers Diaries, the Felonist begins writing to her younger self — "Little Felonist” — in a series of raw, unguarded letters that trace the …