A Lambda Literary Award finalist, Captive Genders is a powerful tool against the prison industrial complex and for queer liberation. This expanded edition contains four new essays, including a foreword by CeCe McDonald and a new essay by Chelsea Manning.
Eric Stanley is a postdoctoral fellow at UCSD. His writings appear in Social Text, American Quarterly, and Women and Performance, as well as various collections.
Nat Smith works with Critical Resistance and the Trans/Variant and Intersex Justice Project.
CeCe McDonald was unjustly incarcerated after fatally stabbing a transphobic attacker in 2011. She was released in 2014 after serving nineteen months for second-degree manslaughter.
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Acknowledgments
**Foreword, CeCe McDonald
Introduction: Fugitive Bodies: Gender Self-determination, Queer Abolition and Trans Resistance
Eric a. Stanley
OUT OF TIME: FROM GAY LIBERATION TO PRISON ABOLITION
Building an Abolitionist Trans & Queer Movement with Everything We’ve Got
Morgan Bassichis, Alexander Lee, Dean Spade
“Street Power” and the Claiming of Public Space: San Francisco’s “Vanguard” and Pre-Stonewall Queer Radicalism
Jennifer Worley
Brushes with Lily Law
Tommi Avicolli Mecca
Looking Back: The Bathhouse Raids in Toronto, 1981
Nadia Guidotto
PRISON BEYOND THE PRISON: CRIMINALIZATION OF THE EVERYDAY
“Rounding Up The Homosexuals”: The Impact of Juvenile Court on Queer and Trans/Gender Non-conforming Youth
Wesley Ware
Hotel Hell
Ralowe T. Ampu
**Trans Indigenous Politics and Prisons in Hawaii
TK
Regulatory Sites: Management, Confinement and HIV/AIDS
Michelle Potts
Awful Acts and the Trouble with Normal: A Personal Treatise on Sex Offenders
Erica Meiners
How to Make Prisons Disappear: Queer Immigrants, the Shackles of Love, and the Invisibility of the Prison Industrial Complex
Yasmin Nair
Identities Under Siege: Violence against Transpersons of Color
Lori Saffin
WALLED LIVES: CONSOLIDATING DIFFERENCE, DISAPPEARING POSSIBILITIES
Krystal is Kristopher and Vice Versa
Kristopher Shelley “Krystal”
“The Only Freedom I Can See:” Imprisoned Queer Writing and the Politics of the Unimaginable
Stephen Dillon
**TK
Chelsea (formerly Bradley) Manning
Being An Incarcerated Transperson: Shouldn’t People Care?
Clifton Goring/Candi Raine Sweet
Out of Compliance: Masculine-Identified People in Women’s Prisons
Lori Girshick
My Story
Paula Rae Witherspoon
Exposure
Cholo
No One Enters Like Them: Health, Gender Variance and the PIC
blake nemec with Kim Love
BUSTIN’ OUT: ORGANIZING RESISTANCE AND BUILDING ALTERNATIVES
**Re-entry
Janetta Johnson and Toshio Meronek
Transforming Carceral Logics: 10 Reasons to Dismantle the Prison Industrial Complex Using a Queer/Trans Analysis
S. Lambel
Making It Happen, Mama: A Conversation with Miss Major
Jayden Donahue
gender wars: state changing shape, passing to play, & body of our movements
Vanessa Huang
Maroon Abolitionists: Black Gender-oppressed Activists in the Anti-Prison Movement in the U.S. and Canada
Julia Sudbury
Abolitionist Imaginings: A Conversation with Bo Brown, Reina Gossett, and Dylan Rodriguez
Che Gossett
TOOLS/RESOURCES
Process, Nat Smith
Picturing the PIC Exercise, Critical Resistance
Questions for Abolitionist Work: 7 Easy Steps, Critical Resistance
Addressing the Prison Industrial Complex: Case Studies
Nat Smith
Resource list
Contributors Bios