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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


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.


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

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.

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