Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex

Eric A. Stanley

• Other Authors Nat Smith (Editor), Cece McDonald (Foreword)
• Title

  Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex

• Date 2015 [c2011]
• ISBN 9781849352352
• Publisher Oakland, CA: AK Press
• Description 399 p; 8.6 in
• Language English
• Collections Permanent Collection, Residency Collection, Workshops, NYC Trans Oral History Project
• Summary

  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.
  Edition Note Expanded 2nd edition

• Tags Abolition, Prison studies, Queer theory, Trans studies