About Eli M

Eli is a lifelong Packer fan, Ironman triathlete and dog dad from Madison, Wisconsin. He worked for eight years as a police officer before finding himself in the spider webs of mental health, addiction recovery and criminal justice systems. His unique perspective as a transgender man with lived experience from "both sides of the squad car plexiglass" brought him to advocacy for reforms to incarceration systems and increased access to mental health and addiction recovery resources. He has turned his lifelong passion for writing into a blog documenting these experiences, in "Dear Mom, I'm Still Me". He serves as co-founder and Vice President of non-profit organization Transform Dane, based in Dane County Wisconsin.
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Dear Mom

"It's about the fact that, for some reason, when everyone else seemed to understand Eli, and I looked good on paper, I didn't understand a single thing about my own identity. I lived my life from the cockpit of an airplane I wasn't flying, just watching the clouds drift by. And with no reason to steer the plane in any intentional direction, I let life steer me. I let friends and family be the pilot, my career be the flight plan, privilege be the airplane, and alcohol be the gasoline. I merely rode along and wondered what might happen if I disrupted the most outwardly stable seeming flight of all time so I could try flying."

By |2025-09-11T17:59:21-05:00November 22, 2024|Blog|0 Comments
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Origins

While staying in seg, you can expect to receive no commissary, no visitations, no mail, and no programming offered in the rest of the jail. You will never go outside or even see a window to remind you the world still exists beyond your walls. You do not bathe or shower, you do not speak to anyone, nor are you spoken to. You effectively exist as an object placed in a room designed for total and complete sensory deprivation.

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