Captive Genders

Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex

Author: Nat Smith
Secondary Author: Eric A. Stanley
ISBN: 9781849350709

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 Gender is a challenge for us all to join the struggle."Captive Genders is an exciting assemblage of writings—analyses, manifestos, stories, interviews—that traverse the complicated entanglements of surveillance, policing, imprisonment, and the production

Publisher: AK Press
Publish Date: 2011-09-15

Subjects: Social Science / Gender Studies, Social Science / Penology, Political Science / Public Policy / Social Policy, Political Science / Political Ideologies / Radicalism

This book is available in the following Community Centers: Cross-Cultural Center (Location: Gender (GNDR))