Renegade for Justice
Renegade for Justice is the body of work I built from the ashes of the hardest years of my life. It is the place where I bring together everything I have lived through, everything I have fought for, and everything I am committed to creating in the world: dignity, healing, truth-telling, and systemic change.
My name is Lindsy Floyd, and I am a writer, justice advocate, survivor of domestic and state violence, parent, educator, and formerly incarcerated woman who refuses to let shame, silence, or systems decide who I am.
I created Renegade for Justice because I learned, in prison, in courtrooms, in abusive relationships, in reentry, and in the public square, that justice is not a building or a courtroom or a sentence. Justice is a human capacity. A collective muscle. A moral instinct that we are never taught to trust.
My Story
I was raised on the belief that courage mattered, truth mattered, and people deserved safety. But my life, like the lives of so many justice-impacted people, was shaped by experiences that should never have happened.
In 2015, I was the victim of a violent felony assault that the State of Connecticut failed to prosecute. That failure set off a decade of coercive control, forced separation from my child, and compounding trauma. In 2016, while the criminal case against my abuser was still open, I caused a DUI negligent-homicide accident that took a man’s life. I take full responsibility for my actions. I served my sentence. And my time in Utah State Prison became the most transformative period of my life.
Prison taught me two things:
Punishment does not produce transformation; relationship does.
A system that cannot imagine your humanity will always misinterpret your pain as a threat.
After my release in 2018, I dedicated myself to rebuilding my life and helping others do the same. I spent the next decade working with post-incarcerated communities, supporting people navigating reentry, educating the public about coercive control, and advocating for policies that restore human dignity rather than destroy it.
My work became a living record of what I learned inside:
that justice is personal before it is political,
and that self-worth is the first form of liberation.
What Renegade for Justice Is
Renegade for Justice is built on two pillars:
Social Justice
This branch of my work is focused on systems change. I use my lived experience with domestic violence, incarceration, reentry, and institutional failure to expose the places where the system breaks people instead of helping them heal. I write and speak about coercive control, legal abuse, domestic violence, procedural injustice, reentry barriers, prison conditions, state-created harm, failures of due process, trauma, shame, and identity, and the human cost of political narratives. I work with organizations, justice-impacted writers, advocacy groups, and community leaders to push for reforms grounded in dignity and truth.
Self Justice
Self Justice is where my heart work lives. It’s where I teach what I had to teach myself how to survive the aftermath of abuse, how to rebuild identity after incarceration, how to heal from shame, how to trust yourself again, how to live a life that belongs to you. The Self Justice series includes my writing, my zines (like Am I Crazy or Is This Abuse?), my podcast, and the community spaces I’m building for people who are trying to reclaim their voice, their history, and their power. This work is for anyone who has ever been silenced, gaslit, punished for telling the truth, or taught to believe they don’t deserve safety and love.
Why ‘Renegade’?
Because sometimes the most radical thing you can do is refuse to participate in your own oppression.
Renegade for Justice stands for: truth over image, healing over hiding, accountability over shame, courage over silence, systems that protect, not harm, the belief that people can change, the insistence that institutions must, the understanding that justice is a human relationship, not a bureaucratic process. Because when the systems we trusted demand our lives and twist “justice” into a weapon: deporting families like vermin, hunting the vulnerable, and seeking the death penalty for people like Luigi Mangione to appease power, the only moral choice is to give our allegiance to the real Justice, the one that exists like gravity: a physical law, indifferent to politics, immune to corruption, and utterly beyond their reach. That is what it means to be a renegade.
Where My Work Lives
Today, Renegade for Justice includes:
long-form writing and essays
public speaking
my upcoming memoir
an upmarket psychological novel
a political manifesto rooted in prison lessons
a podcast weaving lived experience with cultural commentary
the Self Justice toolkits and educational guides
social media content that centers dignity, complexity, and truth
community-based advocacy and crisis navigation
consulting for organizations working with trauma, justice, or reentry
Across every platform, I return to the same core message:
We have to stop clinging to the easy stories; the binaries that say there are good people and bad people, victims and offenders, innocent and guilty. Instead, we must accept the harder, truer reality that harm is cyclical, preventable, and rooted in systems; that punishment doesn’t heal; and that every human being carries dignity and complexity that cannot be reduced to a single moment in their life.
What I Stand For
I stand for radical empathy and sacred rage.
I stand for truth, especially when it’s uncomfortable.
I stand for radical acceptance and the abolition of weaponized shame.
I stand for real accountability, the kind that that is internal and and the kind that is systemic.
I stand for a world where safety is a human right, not a privilege.
I stand for survivors.
I stand for justice-impacted families.
I stand with my Black, Brown, and Indigenous allies.
I stand for LGBTQ+ liberation.
I stand with all trans people fighting to live freely.
I stand for Palestinians and for every community targeted by state power.
I stand against authoritarianism in all its forms.
I stand for a country that finally lives up to its promise.
And also, fuck Donald Trump.
What I’m Building
Renegade for Justice is the beginning of something bigger: a multimedia platform, a teaching space, a bridge between lived experience and systemic understanding, a movement that treats stories as data and humanity as the foundation of public policy.
I am building a place where:
survivors feel seen
justice-impacted people find belonging
truth is spoken without fear
shame loses its power
systems are held accountable
and ordinary people learn how to reclaim their strength.
If You’re Here, You Belong Here
Whether you found me through my writing, my advocacy, my story, or my work supporting others through trauma and transition, you’re here because something in you is ready to remember your dignity.
Welcome to Renegade for Justice.
Welcome to the work of becoming whole again.