Carceral Feminism
“Carceral Feminism describes an approach that sees increased policing, prosecution, and imprisonment as the primary solution to violence against women. This stance does not acknowledge that police are often purveyors of violence and that prisons are always sites of violence. Carceral feminism ignores the ways in which race, class, gender identity, and immigration status leave certain women more vulnerable to violence and that greater criminalization often places these same women at risk of state violence.” – Victoria Law
“Carceral Feminism describes an approach that sees increased policing, prosecution, and imprisonment as the primary solution to violence against women. This stance does not acknowledge that police are often purveyors of violence and that prisons are always sites of violence. Carceral feminism ignores the ways in which race, class, gender identity, and immigration status leave certain women more vulnerable to violence and that greater criminalization often places these same women at risk of state violence.” – Victoria Law
Articles
A Reckoning Inside the Domestic-Violence Movement
By Zoë Carpenter Original article found here. Domestic abuse presents a deadly threat to millions of people across America. But as concerns about police misconduct
Who Keeps Us Safe?
By Maia Hibbett Original article found here. A NEW YORK CITY MARCH descended upon a jail in mid-June, with protesters pumping fists and waving signs at
Anti-Carceral Feminism
By Emily L. Thuma Original article found here. Lydia Pelot-Hobbs The “Free Joan Little” campaign became a coalitional space for Black liberation, feminist and prisoner
How Police Became the Go-to Response to Domestic Violence
By Aya Gruber Original article found here. In response to widespread demands to “defund the police,” a specific question repeatedly crops up: “What about domestic
WHAT FOLLOWS PUNISHMENT?
Original article found here. What Follows Punishment? Aviva Stahl When people convicted of sex offenses in the United States finish their criminal sentences, they generally
How Feminists Resisted Prisons and Policing in the 1970s
Original article found here. How Feminists Resisted Prisons and Policing in the 1970s Emily L. Thuma Emily L. Thuma is an assistant professor of American
Locking people up won’t help combat sexual violence
Original article found here. Locking people up won’t help combat sexual violence We need look beyond individual punishment to tackle a crisis which pervades the
The political whiteness of #MeToo
Original article found here. The political whiteness of #MeToo We need to confront how the movement is shaped by the power of whiteness, write Alison
How Anti-violence Activism Taught Me to Become a Prison Abolitionist
By Beth E. Richie Original article found here Sometimes we learn our most profound political lessons in the contours of our everyday activism. This is
Heteropatriarchy Kills: Challenging Gender Violence in a Prison Nation
By Angela P. Harris Original article found here
Disrupting the Relationship between the Anti-Violence Movement and the PIC
By Chez Rumpf | Chicago PIC Teaching Collective Original article found here Two weeks ago, more than 1200 people attended the National Sexual Assault Conference (NSAC) in
Against Innocence: Race, Gender, and the Politics of Safety
By Jackie Wang Original article found here
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