Synopses & Reviews
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.
"An exciting assemblage of writingsanalyses, manifestos, stories, interviewsthat traverse the complicated entanglements of surveillance, policing, imprisonment, and the production of gender normativity.... [T]he contributors to this volume create new frameworks and new vocabularies that surely will have a transformative impact on the theories and practices of twenty-first century abolition."Angela Y. Davis, professor emerita, University of California, Santa Cruz
"The purpose of prison abolition is to discover and promote the countless ways freedom and difference are mutually dependent. The contributors to Captive Genders brilliantly shatter the assumption that the antidote to danger is human sacrifice."Ruth Wilson Gilmore, author of Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California
"Captive Genders is at once a scathing and necessary analysis of the prison industrial complex and a history of queer resistance to state tyranny. By queering a prison abolition analysis, Captive Genders moves us to imagine the impossible dream of liberation."Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, author of So Many Ways to Sleep Badly
Eric A. Stanley is a radical queer activist, outlaw academic, and experimental filmmaker.
Nat Smith is a member of Trans/gender Variant in Prison Committee and is an organizer with Critical Resistance.
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Synopsis
This collection represents years of struggle in the transgender, gender variant, queer liberation movements, and the movement for the abolition of the prison industrial complex. It is the first of its kind---not simply a bridge, but a space for discourse about the linkages between these struggles. A vital new look at how gender and sexuality are lived under the crushing weight of corporal captivity!
Nat Smith is a member of Trans/gender Variant in Prison Committee and is an organizer with Critical Resistance.
Eric A. Stanley is a radical queer activist, outlaw academic, and experimental filmmaker.
Synopsis
The intersection of transgender, gender variant, and queer identity with the crushing force of the Prison Industrial Complex.
Synopsis
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.
Eric A. Stanley is a radical queer activist, outlaw academic, and experimental filmmaker.
Nat Smith is a member of Trans/gender Variant in Prison Committee and is an organizer with Critical Resistance.
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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.