Session 3: Feminist, Queer, Antiracist Abolition
Core Readings (v. 2022):
Critical Resistance and INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence (2008) Statement on Gender Violence and the Prison Industrial Complex. In: Critical Resistance (ed.) Abolition Now! Ten Years of Strategy and Struggle Against the Prison Industrial Complex. Oakland, California: AK Press, pp. 21-25. [5 pages].
![S Lamble (2021) The false promise of hate crime laws [4 pages]](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e35a537763e8d15ff28a167/1640900362960-968E1GGK1Z5O0ME2HJT6/Hate_Crime.jpg)
S Lamble (2021) The false promise of hate crime laws. AbolitionistFutures.com [4 pages]
Julia
Sudbury
(2006) ‘Rethinking Antiviolence Strategies: Lessons from the Black Women’s Movement in Britain’ in Color of Violence: The INCITE! Anthology p. 13-24. Available from [12 pages]
Beth
Richie
(2014) ‘How Anti-Violence Activism Taught Me to Become a Prison Abolitionist’ FeministWire.org. [2 pages]
Morgan
Bassichis,
Alexander Lee and Dean Spade. (2011) ‘Building an Abolitionist Trans and Queer Movement with Everything We’ve Got’. In: Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex, Oakland: AK Press, p.15-19 & 33-37. [10 pages]
Further reading:
Dean Spade & Reina Gossett (2014) No one is Disposable: Everyday Practices of Abolition [videos]
Joshua Briond (2017) Navigating justice for sexual abuse survivors, when you're a prison abolitionist and a survivor. Afropunk.com.
Beth Richie (2012) Arrested Justice: Black Women, Violence and America's Prison Nation. New York and London: New York University Press.
Oonagh Ryder and Mo Mansfield (2018) “Just Paint the Walls Pink”: Gender, Prison and Carceral Feminism. Lockdown podcast
Isabel Cristo (2020) Policing Doesn’t Protect Women. The New Republic.
![Cassandra Shaylor (2009) Neither Kind Nor Gentle: The Perils of 'Gender Responsive Justice'. In: Scraton, P. and McQulloch, J. (eds.) The Violence of Incarceration. London & New York: Routledge, p. 145-163. [18 pages] ](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e35a537763e8d15ff28a167/1641459534028-TLRBAYQXD5YK1F01LXOW/violence-incarceration-cov.jpg)
Cassandra Shaylor (2009) Neither Kind Nor Gentle: The Perils of 'Gender Responsive Justice'. In: Scraton, P. and McQulloch, J. (eds.) The Violence of Incarceration. London & New York: Routledge, p. 145-163. [18 pages]
Lydia Caradonna (2020) I don’t want my rapists to go to prison [content note: descriptions of rape]
Law, Victoria (2014) Against Carceral Feminism JacobinMag.com
Molly Smith and Juno Mac (2018) Revolting Prostitutes: The Fight for Sex Workers’ Rights. (2018) Verso.
Mariame Kaba and Victoria Law (2019) Transformative Justice in an era of mass criminalization Activist Files podcast
Lamble (2011) Ten Reasons to Dismantle the Prison Industrial Complex through Queer/Trans Analysis and Action. Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex. AK Press.