The intersection of transgender, gender variant, and queer identity with the crushing force of the Prison Industrial Complex.

This collection represents years of struggle in both transgender, gender variant, and queer liberation movements, and the movement against the prison industrial complex. The first of its kind, not simply a bridge, but a space for discourse about the linkages between these struggles. A vital look at how gender and sexuality are lived under the crushing weight of corporal captivity.

Introduction

1. “Building an Abolitionist Trans and Queer Movement with Everything We’ve Got,” Morgan Bassichis, Alexander Lee, Dean Spade

2. “Transforming Carceral Logics: 10 Reasons to Dismantle the Prison Industrial Complex Using a Queer/Trans Analysis,” S. Lambel

3. “Gender Wars: State Changing Shape, Passing to Play, and Body of Our Movements,” Vanessa Huang

4. “Looking Back: The Bathhouse Raids in Toronto, 1981,” Nadia Guidotto

5. “The Only Freedom I Can See: Imprisoned Queer Writing and the Politics of the Unimaginable,” Stephen Dillon

6. “Street Power and the Claiming of Public Space: San Francisco’s ‘Vanguard’ and Pre-Stonewall Queer Radicalism,” Jennifer Worley

7. "Public Health Realities for Gender Variant People in the Prison Industrial Complex," Blake Nemec

8. “Brushes with Lily Law,” Tommi Avicolli Mecca

10. “Out of Compliance: Masculine-Identified People in Women’s Prisons,” Lori Girshick

11. “Bodies That (Don’t) Matter: Systems of Gender Regulation and Institutions of Violence against Transgender Persons of Color,” Lori Saffin

12. “How to Make Prisons Disappear: Queer Immigrants, the Shackles of Love, and the Invisibility of the Prison Industrial Complex,” Yasmin Nair

13. A Conversation with Dylan Rodriguez and Reina Gossett

14. “Hotel Hell,” Ralowe T. Ampu

15. “Maroon Abolitionists: Black Gender-Oppressed Activists in the Anti-Prison Movement in the U.S. and Canada.” Julia Sudbury

16. “History of the Trans/Gender-Variant in Prison Committee,” Miss Major and Jayden Donahue

17. “AIDS and the PIC,” Michelle Potts

18. “Disciplining Bodies, Undoing Minds: Transgender Inmates at the Intersection of State and Psychiatric Violence,” Adam Reed

19. “Awful Acts and the Trouble with Normal :A Personal Treatise on Sex Offenders,” Erica Meiners