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On the eighth floor of the Durham courthouse, a beige tower that is home to the county\u2019s criminal justice system, you will find the office of District Attorney Satana Deberry. With colorful pillows and local art on every wall, her office seems out of place in the drab building. But Deberry, a black queer woman, hasn\u2019t been a typical prosecutor.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

She oversees a system that often entangles people that look just like her. But she is the one running it \u2013 and trying to change it.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Studies<\/span><\/a> have found that LGBTQ people, like people of color, are disproportionately harmed by our justice system. Deberry, elected in 2018 on a mandate of criminal justice reform, has brought a unique understanding of the LGBTQ community to the DA\u2019s office.<\/span><\/p>\n

In an interview for Pride Month, she spoke with The 9th Street Journal about her life as a queer woman and her feelings about representation and justice.<\/span><\/p>\n

We all have idols that shape us. In a framed photo tucked in the corner of her office, Deberry memorializes hers: Barbara Jordan.<\/span><\/p>\n

Jordan, a \u201ctowering figure\u201d in the 1970s, was one of the <\/span>first black women <\/span><\/a>to serve in the Texas State Senate and U.S. House of Representatives. She, like Deberry, was unafraid to challenge the status quo.<\/span><\/p>\n

During <\/span>President Richard Nixon\u2019s impeachment hearing<\/span><\/a>, Jordan famously declared: \u201cIf the impeachment provision in the Constitution of the United States will not reach the offenses charged here, then perhaps that 18th-century Constitution should be abandoned to a 20th-century paper shredder.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

While she never publicly revealed her sexuality, Jordan <\/span>lived with a partner for 20 years<\/span><\/a> until she died in 1996.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI wanted to be Barbara Jordan,\u201d said Deberry. \u201cBarbara Jordan was the first black woman that I saw that I <\/span>knew<\/span><\/i>.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Building a Life<\/b><\/h2>\n

With Barbara Jordan in mind, young Deberry chased excellence in school. She decided good grades would be her path out of Hamlet, N.C. \u2013 a town of 6,000 between Charlotte and Fayetteville. It worked. Her determination and focus on academics carried her all the way to Princeton and through law school at Duke University. To this day, she still doesn\u2019t \u201csee light blue.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

She was always focused on her studies, so it wasn\u2019t until her mid to late 20s, after graduating from law school, that Deberry began to understand her own sexuality. \u201cIt started to occur to me that I had to build a life. And how was I going to build that life?\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

She realized there was only one option. \u201cIt was never a case that I wasn’t going to be out. Because that’s just not who I am,\u201d she said.<\/span><\/p>\n

The core values of openness and transparency that she brings to her office stem from her own disposition. \u201cI’m always trying to be my best self. And so, I don’t really think of being myself as being brave. I mean, that’s what we’re all doing.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

When she came out, her parents were not surprised. \u201cWe already knew that,\u201d they told her matter-of-factly, \u201cso you should probably tell us something new.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Her parents were supportive, but for her mother, queer life was associated with tragedy. Deberry\u2019s aunt, who today would likely identify as trans, lived a dangerous life and was ultimately killed. \u201cI think for my parents, especially for my mother, that was the only kind of life you could have as a queer person . . . on the edges of society.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Deberry worked for a few years as a criminal lawyer before taking jobs at various non-profit groups like Self-Help and the Annie E. Casey Foundation. Then from 2013 to 2018, she served as the head of N.C. Housing Coalition \u2013 all while raising three daughters as a single mother.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In 2018, she was elected the county\u2019s chief prosecutor by <\/span>promising bold reform<\/span><\/a>. Rejecting the hard-line approach of many district attorneys, she vowed to put less emphasis on non-violent crime and said she would address racial bias in the system.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Black women account for a tiny share of the nation\u2019s DAs. In 2014, <\/span>79%\u00a0 percent<\/span><\/a> of elected prosecutors were white men, and only <\/span>1% <\/span><\/a>were women of color.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Talking to Deberry, who sports hoop earrings and blue Adidas tennis shoes, it becomes clear that she has not made it to the eighth floor in <\/span>spite<\/span><\/i> of her intersecting identities, but rather because of them. \u201cBecause I come at this from a cultural position of traditionally being powerless, I feel like I understand what’s at stake in a different way,\u201d she said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

DAs<\/span><\/a> wield tremendous power in deciding which criminal cases get prosecuted. Unlike many prosecutors, her identity as a black, queer woman overlaps with many of those likely to be involved in our imbalanced criminal justice system.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

She says she brings her unique perspective to her work. \u201cThere are just experiences in my life, certainly as a queer person, that inform the decisions I make and the policies that we implement here.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2018The worst day of their lives\u2019<\/b><\/h2>\n

During her time as DA, she has limited the use of cash bail, has scaled back prosecution of school-based offenses, and has focused on prosecuting violent crimes rather than low-level drug possession charges. She says these policies work to reduce the jail population and keep vulnerable people out of the criminal justice system.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

She also recognizes the way the system harms LGBTQ people.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

According to the most recent <\/span>National Inmate Survey<\/span><\/a>, lesbian, gay, and bisexual people are three-times as likely to be incarcerated, and a<\/span> third of all women <\/span><\/a>in prison identify as queer. Studies show transgender people are more likely to be incarcerated at some point in their lives. This rate is even higher for LGBTQ youth, who make up <\/span>20% of the juvenile justice system<\/span><\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

LGBTQ people also are <\/span>disproportionately victims of violent crime<\/span><\/a>. The Williams Institute found they were four-times as likely to experience violent victimization, including rape, sexual assault, and aggravated or simple assault.<\/span><\/p>\n

Deberry knows the statistics \u2013 and the challenges they reflect. \u201cThe dirty little secret of the criminal justice system is that not only are all the defendants poor black and brown people, but all the victims are as well,\u201d she said. \u201cSo being poor, being black, being brown, being LGBTQ, all of those things put you in a situation in this country of just having access to fewer resources.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

To combat these disparities, her office uses a broader definition of domestic violence than the state government, to include same-sex dating couples. Her office also recognizes people by their chosen gender identity, a respect not common in the criminal justice system. And their special victims unit, which focuses on sexual assault, now handles cases in which someone is targeted due to race, gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or gender presentation. \u201cIf that is part of the crime, we talk about it,\u201d Deberry said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

She wants to bring humanity to a system that can be insensitive and biased.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe way that the system acts is to reduce people to the worst day of their lives\u201d said Deberry, \u201cand there’s so much focus on that particular act that we don’t spend a lot of time focused on the person.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

If Mama\u2019s happy, everybody\u2019s happy<\/b><\/h2>\n

For Deberry, her choice of the word <\/span>queer<\/span><\/i> reflects her belief that sexuality and identity are about more than who you love. \u201cFor me, queer is about culture, and about a worldview.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

As Deberry has gotten older (she is now 52), she has noticed that her queerness has ruffled fewer feathers. \u201cIt’s been interesting to me how little it comes up in this role,\u201d she said. Most people just don\u2019t know or don\u2019t ask\u00a0\u2013 she is not sure which.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI think that the real stick in the system is that I’m a black woman. I think that is what really pisses people off.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

But to Deberry, her work is all part of a larger goal. \u201cWhen you’re growing up in a black family, there’s a saying, \u2018If Mama’s happy, everybody’s happy.’ And really the truth of the world is that if, black women, black queer women, and black trans women are safe, then everybody is safe.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

She is working to create that world for her three daughters \u2013\u00a0 two are 16 and one is 19 \u2013 who predominantly communicate in TikToks and GIFs. They, too, have offered Deberry a window into the evolving queer community.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cFor my kids\u2019 friends, they just try on a lot more things. They have friends who are pan, and friends who are trans, and friends who are nonbinary. They have friends who have already transitioned genders,\u201d said Deberry \u201cIn that sense, I think those kids are brave.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The life she has led was not one that many people could have envisioned when she was first coming out, she said.\u00a0 But today, \u201cyou get to be anybody as a queer woman.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

This is what pride means for her:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cRepresentation matters. And, you know, you hear people say, \u2018you can’t be what you can’t see.\u2019 I don’t necessarily believe that, but I do know that somewhere out there, seeing me is meaningful to somebody \u2013 just like seeing Barbara Jordan was meaningful to me. And so that’s really what pride means for me. That you get to see the full range of who you get to possibly be.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

At top, photo of Satana Deberry by Becca Schneid, The 9th Street Journal<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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