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Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex, Second Edition Paperback – Illustrated, October 27, 2015

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Pathologized, terrorized, and confined, trans/gender non-conforming and queer folks have always struggled against the prison industrial complex. Eric A. Stanley and Nat Smith bring together current and former prisoners, activists, and academics for a new understanding of how race, gender, ability, and sexuality are lived under the crushing weight of captivity. Through a politic of gender self-determination, this collection argues that trans/ queer liberation and prison abolition must be grown together. From rioting against police violence and critiquing hate crimes legislation, to prisoners demanding access to HIV medications, and far beyond, Captive Genders is a challenge for us all to join the struggle. This expanded second edition includes a new foreword from CeCe McDonald and essays by Chelsea Manning, Kalaniopua Young, and Janetta Louise Johnson and Toshio Meronek.

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"Captive Genders reminds and instructs that life is about relationships and desires free from neglect and repression, gendered constraints, policing and brutality, and disappearance. The anthology contributors share transformational insights, mini-memoirs, analyses and theories about captivity. Their writings lead and nurture us to a deeper understanding and struggle for justice with freedom and peace."
-Joy James, author of Seeking the Beloved Community

"Captive Genders is an essential book that brings home that trans and gender non-conforming lives are deeply structured by the prison, that violence can never be an antidote to violence, that abolition must extend to the gender binary, and that formerly incarcerated Black trans women will lead the way."
-Jin Haritaworn, author of Queer Lovers and Hateful Others: Regenerating Violent Times and Places

"The powerful analysis and compelling arguments in this collection force readers to conclude that the political and theoretical connection between prison abolition and trans and queer liberation is fundamental to social transformation and justice."
-Beth E. Ritchie, author of Arrested Justice: Black Women, Violence, and America's Prison Nation

About the Author

Eric Stanley works at the intersection of radical trans/queer politics, abolitionist study, and critical theory. They are an assistant professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies at the University of California, Riverside.

Nat Smith has worked with Critical Resistance and the Trans Gender/Variant and Intersex Justice Project.

CeCe McDonald was imprisoned for defending herself against a racist, transphobic assault. After being released she quickly became a leading and outspoken fighter in the movements for LGBTQ liberation, prison abolition, and racial justice.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ AK Press; Second edition (October 27, 2015)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 425 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1849352348
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1849352345
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.23 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 1.3 x 8.4 inches

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A necessary read for everyone to understand the carceral state and empire logic

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Incredibly disengenious, relying on the reader's ignorance to make very strong claims

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I really can't overstate how obnoxious this book is. Captive Genders was a required text for a corrections class I took recently, and I was open to the discussion about lgbt groups and other small groups in regards to incarceration. What this book presented me with was overwhelmingly emotional and subjective arguments and accounts of persons who claimed to be victimized by police or the justice system, and took little responsibility for their role.

My favorite section spoke about Assata Shakur, who Stanley referred to as "a black right's activist". That's all he says about her in regards to brave people fighting the system. Great, that was incredibly uninformative, but I did learn quite a bit about her by doing some outside reading myself. Stanley provided no background or context for what Assata has done or who she purports herself to be. Lo and behold she was an accomplice in the murder of New Jersey State Trooper Werner Foerster, and was charged with 7 other felonies she had been involved with. After being sentenced to prison time, her associates broke her out in 1979, and she fled to Cuba. She has been avoiding justice back in the states eversince (she even calls herself a "20th century escaped slave").

Long story short, this book is filled with invective and emotional pleas to end incarceration in the USA, supported by non evidence. While I will wholeheartedly agree that our prisons are overcrowded, ineffective, and not a panacea for all criminals, this book uses misinformation and the omission of important context and information to push its narrative. It's absolute trash, and after spending 4 months with it and another book by Sudbury I can honestly say I am less intelligent due to their rhetoric.

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Amazing book. Worth a read, or two, or three...

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Great book! Purchased for our Lambda Alliance library on campus.

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powerful and important book - excellent resource

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Powerful book. Multitude of perspectives. History, personal narrative, analysis, resources. Dense - I read it over a long time - and will be returning to it as a whole and to individual essays more closely.

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…because when someone of serious scholarship actually reads the book they will see that … while a beautiful title and genius(!) idea, in the majority of contributors to the book - have no actual experience with prison.
Stanley, who carries the entitlement of someone raised a cis white male who experiences the world as a cis white male and who made a clever though immature navel gazing liberal arts flick that featured 30 seconds of Angel (credibility!) Davis, has here again given platform to essentially Stanley’s friends. When asked why friends who’d never been to or studied prison first hand were given space in this book, one contributor said, “well it’s hard to get people to write something.” Ahh yes, engaging with one’s subjects through the archaic medium of interview or snowball sampling, too hard. With the credibility of one who put the heirarchy in non-hierarchical Stanley and friends own that space, brushing up against a handful of activists with lived experience. So one could ask, at the end of the day, if using the experience of a marginalized few to elevate the voices of the those who live merely in the prison of their bachelor’s degrees, might be exactly the trans-ploitation that Stanley wishes you to think you are fighting.
It is no surprise that Stanley is the soft spoken leader of the cancel-culture trauma-inflicting clever troll group Gay Shame, most well known for their biting satire and tendency to eat their young. Don’t dare challenge their tactics or whom they’ve chosen to vilify, Stanley and co were in a movie with Angela Davis…. o and they wrote this anthology about issues of gender and (wait for it) prison (omg!) how radical of them. All of them.

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