num_pages: 365
description: 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 CruzThe 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 CaliforniaCaptive 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 BadlyEric 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.
language: English
title: Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex
publisher: AK Press