Students Against Incarceration Community Fest Guide: Gender Justice: Gender at the Intersection of Abolition

During the 1970s, grassroots women activists in and outside of prisons forged a radical politics against gender violence and incarceration. Thuma traces the making of this anti-carceral feminism at the intersections of struggles for racial and economic justice, prisoners' and psychiatric patients' rights, and gender and sexual liberation.

Arrested Justice brings issues of sexuality, class, age, and criminalization into focus right alongside of questions of public policy and gender violence, resulting in a compelling critique, a passionate re-framing of stories, and a call to action for change.

Invisible No More is a timely examination of how Black women, Indigenous women, and women of color experience racial profiling, police brutality, and immigration enforcement.

Drawing upon black feminist criticism and a diverse array of archival materials, Sarah Haley uncovers imprisoned women's brutalization in local, county, and state convict labor systems, while also illuminating the prisoners' acts of resistance and sabotage, challenging ideologies of racial capitalism and patriarchy and offering alternative conceptions of social and political life.

Resisting Carceral Violence tells the story of how activists--through a combination of creative direct actions, reformist lobbying and legal challenges--forged an anti-carceral feminist movement that traversed the prison walls.