Captive Genders (eBook)

Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex, Second Edition

Eric A. Stanley, Nat Smith (Herausgeber)

eBook Download: EPUB

2015 | Second Edition
425 Seiten
AK Press (Verlag)
978-1-84935-235-2 (ISBN)

Infos

Groundbreaking account of trans and gender-queer people within the Prison Industrial Complex. Updated and expanded.

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A Lambda Literary Award finalist, Captive Genders is a powerful tool against the prison industrial complex and for queer liberation. This expanded edition contains four new essays, including a foreword by CeCe McDonald and a new essay by Chelsea Manning.

Eric Stanley is a postdoctoral fellow at UCSD. His writings appear in Social Text, American Quarterly, and Women and Performance, as well as various collections.

Nat Smith works with Critical Resistance and the Trans/Variant and Intersex Justice Project.

CeCe McDonald was unjustly incarcerated after fatally stabbing a transphobic attacker in 2011. She was released in 2014 after serving nineteen months for second-degree manslaughter.

Autor

Eric A. Stanley: Eric A. Stanley is a radical queer activist, outlaw academic, experimental filmmaker.
Nat Smith: Nat Smith is a member of Trans/gender Variant in Prison Committee and an organizer with Critical Resistance.
CeCeMcDonald: CeCe McDonald was unjustly incarcerated after fatally stabbing a transphobic attacker in 2011. She was released in 2014 after serving nineteen months for second-degree manslaughter.

Inhalt

[** Indicates New Material]

Acknowledgments
**Foreword, CeCe McDonald

Introduction: Fugitive Bodies: Gender Self-determination, Queer Abolition and Trans Resistance
Eric a. Stanley

OUT OF TIME: FROM GAY LIBERATION TO PRISON ABOLITION

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

“Street Power” and the Claiming of Public Space: San Francisco’s “Vanguard” and Pre-Stonewall Queer Radicalism
Jennifer Worley

Brushes with Lily Law
Tommi Avicolli Mecca

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

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

Hotel Hell
Ralowe T. Ampu

**Trans Indigenous Politics and Prisons in Hawaii
TK

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

Awful Acts and the Trouble with Normal: A Personal Treatise on Sex Offenders
Erica Meiners

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

Identities Under Siege: Violence against Transpersons of Color
Lori Saffin

WALLED LIVES: CONSOLIDATING DIFFERENCE, DISAPPEARING POSSIBILITIES

Krystal is Kristopher and Vice Versa
Kristopher Shelley “Krystal”
“The Only Freedom I Can See:” Imprisoned Queer Writing and the Politics of the Unimaginable
Stephen Dillon

**TK
Chelsea (formerly Bradley) Manning

Being An Incarcerated Transperson: Shouldn’t People Care?
Clifton Goring/Candi Raine Sweet

Out of Compliance: Masculine-Identified People in Women’s Prisons
Lori Girshick

My Story
Paula Rae Witherspoon

Exposure
Cholo

No One Enters Like Them: Health, Gender Variance and the PIC
blake nemec with Kim Love

BUSTIN’ OUT: ORGANIZING RESISTANCE AND BUILDING ALTERNATIVES

**Re-entry
Janetta Johnson and Toshio Meronek

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

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

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

Maroon Abolitionists: Black Gender-oppressed Activists in the Anti-Prison Movement in the U.S. and Canada
Julia Sudbury

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

TOOLS/RESOURCES

Process, Nat Smith

Picturing the PIC Exercise, Critical Resistance

Questions for Abolitionist Work: 7 Easy Steps, Critical Resistance

Addressing the Prison Industrial Complex: Case Studies
Nat Smith

Resource list
Contributors Bios

[** Indicates New Material]

Acknowledgments
**Foreword, CeCe McDonald

Introduction: Fugitive Bodies: Gender Self-determination, Queer Abolition and Trans Resistance
Eric a. Stanley

OUT OF TIME: FROM GAY LIBERATION TO PRISON ABOLITION

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

“Street Power” and the Claiming of Public Space: San Francisco’s “Vanguard” and Pre-Stonewall Queer Radicalism
Jennifer Worley

Brushes with Lily Law
Tommi Avicolli Mecca

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

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

Hotel Hell
Ralowe T. Ampu

**Trans Indigenous Politics and Prisons in Hawaii
TK

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

Awful Acts and the Trouble with Normal: A Personal Treatise on Sex Offenders
Erica Meiners

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

Identities Under Siege: Violence against Transpersons of Color
Lori Saffin

WALLED LIVES: CONSOLIDATING DIFFERENCE, DISAPPEARING POSSIBILITIES

Krystal is Kristopher and Vice Versa
Kristopher Shelley “Krystal”
“The Only Freedom I Can See:” Imprisoned Queer Writing and the Politics of the Unimaginable
Stephen Dillon

**TK
Chelsea (formerly Bradley) Manning

Being An Incarcerated Transperson: Shouldn’t People Care?
Clifton Goring/Candi Raine Sweet

Out of Compliance: Masculine-Identified People in Women’s Prisons
Lori Girshick

My Story
Paula Rae Witherspoon

Exposure
Cholo

No One Enters Like Them: Health, Gender Variance and the PIC
blake nemec with Kim Love

BUSTIN’ OUT: ORGANIZING RESISTANCE AND BUILDING ALTERNATIVES

**Re-entry
Janetta Johnson and Toshio Meronek

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

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

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

Maroon Abolitionists: Black Gender-oppressed Activists in the Anti-Prison Movement in the U.S. and Canada
Julia Sudbury

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

TOOLS/RESOURCES

Process, Nat Smith

Picturing the PIC Exercise, Critical Resistance

Questions for Abolitionist Work: 7 Easy Steps, Critical Resistance

Addressing the Prison Industrial Complex: Case Studies
Nat Smith

Resource list
Contributors Bios

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 5.10.2015
• Vorwort: Cece McDonald
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Schlagworte: Attica • Chelsea Manning • Critical Resistance • Mass Incarceration • Prison • prison abolition • prisoner's rights • Trans • Transformative Justice • Trans rights
• ISBN-10: 1-84935-235-6 / 1849352356
• ISBN-13: 978-1-84935-235-2 / 9781849352352