Captive genders : trans embodiment and the prison industrial complex / edited by Eric A Stanley and Nat Smith.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Smith, Nat.

Stanley, Eric A.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Transgender people--Violence against--United States.

Transgender people.

Transgender people--Effect of imprisonment on--United States.

Prison-industrial complex--United States.

Prison-industrial complex.

Transgender people--Violence against.

United States.

Physical Description:

x, 365 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Oakland, CA : AK Press, 2011.

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. Book jacket.

Contents:

Out Of Time: From Gay Liberation To Prison Abolition

Building an Abolitionist Trans & Queer Movement with Everything We've Got / Morgan Bassichis Bassichis, Morgan, Alexander Lee Lee, Alexander, Dean Spade Spade, Dean 15

"Street Power" and the Claiming of Public Space: San Francisco's "Vanguard" and Pre-Stonewall Queer Radicalism / Jennifer Worley Worley, Jennifer 41

Brushes with Lily Law / Tommi Avicolli Mecca Mecca, Tommi Avicolli 57

Looking Back: The Bathhouse Raids in Toronto, 1981 / Nadia Guidotto Guidotto, Nadia 63

Prison Beyond The Prison: Criminalization Of The Everyday

"Rounding Up the Homosexuals": The Impact of Juvenile Court on Queer and Trans/Gender-Non-Conforming Youth / Wesley Ware Ware, Wesley 77

Hotel Hell: With Continual References to the Insurrection / Ralowe T. Ampu Ampu, Ralowe T. 85

Regulatory Sites: Management, Confinement, and HIV/AIDS / Michelle C. Potts Potts, Michelle C. 99

Awful Acts and the Trouble with Normal: A Personal Treatise on Sex Offenders / Erica R. Meiners Meiners, Erica R. 113

How to Make Prisons Disappear: Queer Immigrants, the Shackles of Love, and the Invisibility of the Prison Industrial Complex / Yasmin Nair Nair, Yasmin 123

Identities Under Siege: Violence Against Transpersons of Color / Lori A. Saffin Saffin, Lori A. 141

Walled Lives: Consolidating Difference, Disappearing Possibilities

Krystal Is Kristopher and Vice Versa / Kristopher Shelley "Krystal" "Krystal", Kristopher Shelley 165

"The Only Freedom I Can See:" Imprisoned Queer Writing and the Politics of the Unimaginable / Stephen Dillon Dillon, Stephen 169

Being an Incarcerated Transperson: Shouldn't People Care? / Clifton Goring/Candi Raine Sweet Sweet, Clifton Goring/Candi Raine 185

Out of Compliance: Masculine-Identified People in Women's Prisons / Lori Girshick Girshick, Lori 189

My Story / Paula Rae Witherspoon Witherspoon, Paula Rae 209

Exposure / Cholo 215

No One Enters Like Them: Health, Gender Variance, and the PIC / blake nemec nemec, blake 217

Bustin' Out: Organizing Resistance And Building Alternatives

Transforming Carceral Logics: 10 Reasons to Dismantle the Prison Industrial Complex Using a Queer/Trans Analysis / S. Lambel Lambel, S. 235

Making It Happen, Mama: A Conversation with Miss Major / Jayden Donahue Donahue, Jayden 267

gender wars: state changing shape, passing to play, & body of our movements / Vanessa Huang Huang, Vanessa 281

Maroon Abolitionists: Black Gender-oppressed Activists in the Anti-Prison Movement in die US and Canada / Julia Sudbury AKA Julia C. Oparah Oparah, Julia Sudbury AKA Julia C. 293

Abolitionist Imaginings: A Conversation with Bo Brown, Reina Gossett, and Dylan Rodriguez / Che Gossett Gossett, Che 323

Tools/Resources

Picturing the PIC Exercise / Critical Resistance Resistance, Critical 345

Questions for Abolitionist Work: 7 Easy Steps / Critical Resistance Resistance, Critical 349

Addressing the Prison Industrial Complex: Case Studies / Nat Smith Smith, Nat 355.

ISBN:

9781849350709

1849350701

OCLC:

669754832