The Queer and Trans Politics of Prison Abolition, November 15

8. The Queer and Trans Politics of Prison Abolition, November 15

UCLA Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies Program

November 15, 2007

Thursday, 7:00 pm
314 Royce Hall
The Queer and Trans Politics of Prison Abolition
Trishala Deb, Audre Lorde Project, New York City
Alexis Giraldo, TGI Justice Project, Los Angeles
Reggie Gossett, Critical Resistance, New York City
Rickke Mananzala, FIERCE, New York City
Lala Yantes, Transforming Justice, San Francisco
Dean Spade, UCLA Williams Institute on Sexual Orientation Law and Public Policy, has organized this event

This panel discussion will focus on how queer and trans communities and community organizations are confronting issues of criminalization and imprisonment. Panelists will include people doing on-the-ground work to support queer and trans prisoners facing abuse in prisons, support people leaving prisons, and build resistance to the prison industrial complex in queer and trans communities as well as scholar-activists working to build analysis of the gendered and raced nature of imprisonment, the history of prison reform and prison abolition movements, and marginalization of prisoners in "gay rights" struggles. Panelists will address questions such as: How do we build strategies for resisting imprisonment that centralize the leadership of currently and formerly imprisoned people? What does a queer and trans politics of imprisonment look like? What relationship does the current "gay rights" movement have to policing and imprisonment? What concrete strategies are working in the quest for prison abolition?
Cosponsored by the Williams Institute on Sexual Orientation Law and Public Policy at the UCLA School of Law and the Center for Sex and Gender Research at California State University, Northridge

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