This book issues a powerful call to action: queer justice requires the abolition of the prison industrial complex. Bringing together historical, empirical, pedagogical, and personal essays that welcome readers into the complex and hopeful work of abolition, this collective project highlights a range of anticarceral resistance work. Intersectional and actionable by design, Abolition and Queer Justice features the voices of scholars and activists from across queer criminology and invites students, scholars, and activists to join together to advance truly transformative goals.
Contents
Introduction: Envisioning Queer Justice Allyn Walker and Aimee Wodda
PART ONE. SEEDS OF CHANGE: NURTURING OUR ABOLITIONIST GROWTH
1. From the Hood to Queer Scholar: How I Became a Police Abolitionist Susana
Avalos
2. Growing Up an Abolitionist Rosa Squillacote
3. So, You Like the Police, Huh? Alessandra Milagros Early
4. Queer Criminologists Pathways to Abolition: A Québécois Autoethnography
Alexis Marcoux Rouleau, Karl Beaulieu, and Catherine Therrien
5. A Radical Vision for Prison Abolition Jennifer M. Ortiz
PART TWO. ROOTS OF OPPRESSION: UNEARTHING QUEER CRIMINALIZATION
6. Dismembering the Powermonger: A BlaQueer Feminist Approach to Abolition
Toniqua C. Mikell
7. At Any Given Point in Your Life, You Can Be Wrong about Everything:
Queer and Trans Perspectives, Community Care, and the Abolitionist
Imagination Max Osborn
8. Queer against the Law Amanda M. Petersen
9. (Un)DocuQueer: Trapped within Bodies, Borders, and Systems Karen Z.
Armenta Rojas
10. A Conversation on the Criminalization of Queer People, Abolition
Feminism, and Resisting Carceral Harms around Child Sexual Abuse jenani devi,
Monica Ramsy, and Alison Reba
PART THREE. BRANCHES OF PROGRESS: REACHING FOR QUEER JUSTICE IN CRIMINOLOGY
11. Critiquing Criminology: Toward an Abolitionist-Centered Pedagogy and
Discipline 187 Candice Crutchfield
12. From Prison to Police Abolition: Challenging Queer Criminologys
Investments in the Police 200 Emma K. Russell
13. Queer Means Centering Criminalized Survivors: Lessons from Abolition
Feminism 214 ash stephens and Jane Hereth
14. Toward a Pedagogy of Possibility: On Abolitionist Teaching 227 Ihsan
Al-Zouabi
Bibliography
Contributors
Index
Allyn Walker is Assistant Professor of Criminology at Saint Mary's University in Kjipuktuk (Halifax, Nova Scotia) and author of A Long, Dark Shadow: Minor-Attracted People and Their Pursuit of Dignity. Aimee Wodda is Associate Professor of Criminal Justice, Law and Society at Pacific University and coauthor of Sex-Positive Criminology.
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