Welcome to the cypher in 2026. We are beginning this season of Audio Nuggets by slowing all the way down — not because the stakes are small, but because the stakes are everything. In 2026, True Narratives is the throughline — a mosaic of collective realities where each voice, each breath, each memory is a tile. This season is about the truth that has survived disappearance. Truth that has refused erasure. Truth that knows we have always had to fight — and that now, we finally know what we are fighting for.
To ground us, we welcome Stephanie Jeffcoat, for True Narratives: Beyond Termination. Stephanie is a leader, organizer, and truth-teller whose work embodies everything True Narratives stands for. As the founder of Families Inspiring Reentry and Reunification for Everyone, Stephanie has spent years building alongside people impacted by incarceration, family policing, homelessness, and systemic disappearance. Her leadership is not rooted in proximity to harm — it is rooted in lived knowing, collective wisdom, and an unshakable belief that those most impacted are not just witnesses to injustice, but theory holders, culture builders, and movement shapers.
This conversation is an invitation. An invitation to abolish the executioner within our own minds — the voice that says silence is safer, that disappearance is survival, that harm happened because we weren’t enough. This season is about building base — people who recognize themselves in each other, who arrive whole with grief and anger and love and questions, and are not punished for any of it. We are fighting for belonging without punishment. For accountability without annihilation. For memory. For continuity. For love that the state can never terminate. This is discourse that strategizes with history. This is imagination as infrastructure. This is where story meets strategy. This is where the mosaic continues to grow.
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