28 February 2023: Gender, Prisons, and Abolition

Bassichis, Morgan; Lee, Alexander; Spade, Dean. (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, 15–19, 32–37. PDF: Bassichis, Lee, and Spade, "Building an Abolitionist Trans and Queer Movement" Alternative source (PDF): https://www.deanspade.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/Building-an-Abolitionist-Trans-Queer-Movement-With-Everything-Weve-Got.pdf

Audio: https://soundcloud.com/user-117009169/sets/session-3-feminist-queer

Buck, Marilyn. (2007). “The Effects of Repression on Women in Prison.” Ch. 11 in Warfare in the American Homeland: Policing and Prison in a Penal Democracy. Ed.Joy James. Durham: Duke University Press. 238–47.

PDF: Warfare in the American Homeland

Alternative source (PDF): https://abolitionjournal.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Joy-James-ed.-Warfare-in-the-American-Homeland_-Policing-and-Prison-in-a-Penal-Democracy-Duke-University-Press-2007.pdf

Alternative source (PDF): https://sites.williams.edu/jjames/files/2020/06/Joy-James-ed.-Warfare-in-the-American-Homeland_-Policing-and-Prison-in-a-Penal-Democracy-Duke-University-Press-2007.pdf

Schmid, Anastazia. (2017). “Crafting the Perfect Woman: How Gynecology, Obstetrics and American Prisons Operate to Construct and Control Women.” Abolitionjournal.org, May 30.

https://abolitionjournal.org/crafting-the-perfect-woman-how-gynecology-obstetrics-and-american-prisons-operate-to-construct-and-control-women/

Rebecca Onion. (2015). “The Pen: Inmates at America’s Oldest Women’s Prison Are Writing a History Of It—And Exploding The Myth Of Its Benevolent Founders.” Slate, March 22.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2015/03/indiana-womens-prison-a-revisionist-history.html