Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex
"Captive Genders is a crucial book, furthering an understanding of the evolving struggle for sexual and gender liberation, driving home the impossibility of freeing some, but not all, and calling it victory."-Xtra! Canada's Gay and Lesbian News"...this book provides a much needed reality check on how we, as queer and trans/gender-non-conforming people engage in politics relating to violence, the prison system, and so-called justice."-2Bmag"LGBT academics from all disciplines, as well as human rights activists, would findCaptive Gendersa valuable resource, as it is the first book that specifically addresses trans people in the Prison Industrial Complex."-Lambda Literary Review"Moving beyond the memorializing of the 1969 New York City Stonewall Riots as the inception of the gay liberation movement, the book's opening texts introduce a vast, unofficial archive of transgender and queer opposition to state violence and criminalization."-Postmodern Culture"Now we have a wonderful new weapon both for deepening our understanding of the system and for building solidarity inCaptive Genders..." Social Text