Ten years later, Cendre is running a collective as director of ABO Comix, an art-driven nonprofit. Contributor Eric Lee Tadana defines themselves as "a beautiful contradiction" and is "gender-fluid, pansexual [and] polyamorous." In a recent phone call broadcast on this week's Out in The Bay, Tadana recounted a moment of psychosis while in prison. "As a part of the treatment in the psychiatric hospital, I was sprayed with pepper spray in the face," they said.
This experience led Tadana to think about alternative therapies and inspired a story called Habanero Lipstick, about "turning a negative into a positive."Making artwork in prison is one way Tadana continues to turn negatives into positives.