Welcome Home, Brittney Griner

 

I want you to know that Brittney Griner cut her locs because it was so cold in detention in Russia that her hair couldn't be washed--it would freeze. I can not imagine what she suffered as a queer woman of color in detention in a place of pure hostility to everything about her, but I am so glad she has come home. She has come home to her wife, and a country that should value her because she represents us--America the Beautiful. The Brave. 

This is a woman who was imprisoned for an amount of hash solely for management of having a body that does stuff. It very well would be treated as medicinal here. She is not what we could consider a drug addict or a dealer. Just an occasional ad lib user because bodies sometimes need an assist for relaxation. 

Some people want to pit the existence and freedom of this athlete against some straw human--or make a straw human out of Paul Whelan, who Russia insists is some kind of spy. 

I don't understand how getting an American home is supposed to be wrong. I am happy this woman is home. 

UPDATE: Conservatives who are critical regarding her release seem to have the wrong idea that getting Whelan released was an option President Biden had but rejected. Actually, it was an option former president Trump had when he was in office but rejected. Just to clear that up.