Special Issue on Queer, Trans, and Feminist Responses to Mass Incarceration
Editors Lisa Guenther and Chloë Taylor
philoSOPHIA invites essays that provide queer, trans, and feminist responses to mass incarceration.
Some feminists have endorsed carceral responses to gender violence and sexual violence, calling for more legal regulation, more comprehensive enforcement of current laws, and harsher punishments for offenders. Others have criticized such responses, arguing that the prison industrial complex is itself a form of institutional violence which compounds the harm of interpersonal violence and the structural violence of racism, poverty, sexism, and heterosexism (see, for example, INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence, From Carceral to Transformative Justice Feminisms, Against Equality). For this special issue, we invite queer, trans, and feminist responses to mass incarceration that challenge dominant carceral paradigms. We are particularly interested in papers that engage with the work of people of colour, activists, and currently- or formerly-incarcerated people.
Send a 500-word abstract to philosophiajcf@gmail.com by October 1, 2014.
Direct any questions to philosophiajcf@gmail.com