Book
Captive genders : trans embodiment and the prison industrial complex
Edition
Expanded second edition.
Publication Information
Chico, CA : AK Press, [2015]
Physical Description
399 pages ; 22 cm
Summary
Pathologized, terrorized, and confined, trans/gender-non-conforming and queer folks have always struggled against the enormity of the prison industrial complex. The first collection of its kind, Eric A. Stanley and Nat Smith bring together current and former prisoners, activists, and academics to offer new ways for understanding how race, gender, ability, and sexuality are lived under the crushing weight of captivity. Through a politic of gender self-determination, this collection argues that trans/queer liberation and prison abolition must be grown together. From rioting against police violence and critiquing hate crimes legislation, to prisoners demanding access to HIV medications, and far beyond, Captive Genders is a challenge for us all to join the struggle.
Contents
- Building an abolitionist trans & queer movement with everything we've got / "Street power" and the claiming of public space : San Francisco's "Vanguard" and pre-Stonewall queer radicalism / Brushes with Lily Law / Looking back : the bathhouse raids in Toronto, 1981 / From a native trans daughter : carceral refusal, settler colonialism, re-routing the roots of an indigenous abolitionist imaginary / "Rounding up the homosexuals" : the impact of juvenile court on queer and trans/gender-non-conforming youth / Hotel hell / Regulatory sites : management, confinement, and HIV/AIDS / Awful acts and the trouble with normal : a personal treatise on sex offenders / How to make prisons disappear : queer immigrants, the shackles of love, and the invisibility of the prison industrial complex / Identities under siege : violence against transpersons of color / On the intersection of the military and the prison industrial complex / Krystal is Kristopher and vice versa / "The only freedom I can see" : imprisoned queer writing and the politics of the unimaginable / Being an incarcerated transperson : shouldn't people care? / Out of compliance : masculine-identified people in women's prisons / My story / Exposure / No one enters like them : health, gender variance, and the PIC / Custody's long shadow : reentry support as abolitionist work / Transforming carceral logics : 10 reasons to dismantle the prison industrial complex using a queer/trans analysis / Making it happen, mama : a conversation with Miss Major / gender wars : state changing shape, passing to play, & body of our movements / Maroon abolitionists : black gender-oppressed activists in the Anti-Prison Movement in the US and Canada / Abolitionist imaginings : a conversation with Bo Brown, Reina Gossett, and Dylan Rodriguez / Picturing the PIC exercise / Questions for abolitionist work : 7 easy steps / Addressing the prison industrial complex :