A review by lewisalex10
Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex by Eric A. Stanley, Nat Smith

5.0

The prison industrial complex is brutally harmful in especially unique ways towards trans/gender non-conforming and queer folks. A heavy read, this book shares haunting insights from incarcerated and formerly incarcerated trans/gender non-conforming and queer folks that not only speak to the need for abolishing the PIC but “building up and recovering institutions and practices and relationships that nurture wholeness, self-determination, and transformation” (M. Bassichis, A. Lee & D. Spade). Can’t recommend this collection enough.