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Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex by Eric A. Stanley
5.0
really amazing collection. i cant even think of how i would pull out highlights because of the breadth and depth of the many different writings.
there are histories here, mini-memoirs, theoretical writings, sociological (kinda?) studies, a few more artistic explorative writings, interviews, and more. all of them deal with transness, queerness, and the prison-industrial-complex, each in all of their expansiveness. there are tales of individual experiences and collective organizing, and there is all together a sharp analysis of how gender, policing, imprisonment, sexuality, race, power, class, and more operate. and that analysis rises from careful examination of and often self-reflection on the realities trans/queer/gender-non-conforming people in prison, in housing projects, in outside anti-prison organizations, in street economies, in riots, in border crossings, in bathhouses, in pen-pal relationships, and indeed in conservative 'lgbt rights' lobbying groups that are on the other side of the P-I-C.
im grateful for all that's been brought together in this book and what it gives abolitionists, trans people, and their comrades. now i just am hoping i revisit the entries in here as much as they deserve !!
there are histories here, mini-memoirs, theoretical writings, sociological (kinda?) studies, a few more artistic explorative writings, interviews, and more. all of them deal with transness, queerness, and the prison-industrial-complex, each in all of their expansiveness. there are tales of individual experiences and collective organizing, and there is all together a sharp analysis of how gender, policing, imprisonment, sexuality, race, power, class, and more operate. and that analysis rises from careful examination of and often self-reflection on the realities trans/queer/gender-non-conforming people in prison, in housing projects, in outside anti-prison organizations, in street economies, in riots, in border crossings, in bathhouses, in pen-pal relationships, and indeed in conservative 'lgbt rights' lobbying groups that are on the other side of the P-I-C.
im grateful for all that's been brought together in this book and what it gives abolitionists, trans people, and their comrades. now i just am hoping i revisit the entries in here as much as they deserve !!