The Trump administration has moved to strip Obama-era protections for transgender and intersex prisoners, citing executive orders rooted in TERF ideology. But the flaws run deeper than Trump. From settler-colonialism to pink-washing imperialism, this editorial traces the full history behind the attack on trans lives. . . .
prison industrial complex
Examining the Prison Industrial Complex’s Impact on Black America
A world in which resources and opportunity were fairly distributed to Black Americans does not exist. This country’s history of racial oppression has weighed a heavy burden on the progress and advancement of Africans since slavery and will continue without organized resistance. . . .
Prisons are for Profit: What to Do?
Maybe the State knows if we place the primary blame on a few leeching corporations, and not the entire predatory state apparatus, that they can maintain the counterinsurgent socio-political control that actually drives them. . . .
Abolitionist Efforts to Trangress the Prison Walls
Incarcerated radical intellectuals elucidate the nature of political struggle and its various arenas. Alongside these writers are solidarity groups that propagate their writings and intellectual products. Through a close reading of Black Communist trans prisoner Alyssa V. Hope’s legal efforts and writings, this article unearths how a pen-pal relationship transformed into a comprehensive abolitionist community. This case study provides an ex-ample of how abolitionists are grappling with the need to support the material needs of marginalised communities while still building otherwise possible worlds separate from a failing welfare state. Mutual aid projects, like the one formed by Hope’s supporters, showcase that otherwise possible worlds are not only possible, but they are being created right now be-fore us. . . .