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Eric A. Stanley works at the intersections of radical trans/queer politics, theories of state violence, and visual culture. Eric is currently finishing a PhD in the History of Consciousness department at the University of California, Santa Cruz and continues to organize with Gay Shame. Along with Chris Vargas, Eric is also a co-director of Homotopia (2006) and Criminal Queers (2011).Eric's other writing can be found in the journal Social Text as well as many anthologies. ...more

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Captive Genders review by David Gilbert

Transforming Society

By David Gilbert

Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex
(AK Press, 2011)
Nat Smith and Eric A. Stanley (eds.)

Even though it was over 30 years ago, I remember well the anxiety about entering the penal system: how would I fare in this harsh new world of repression, of regimentation, reputedly rife with violence? For me, for many of us, the saving grace Read more of this blog post »

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	That's Revolting!: Queer Strategies for Resisting Assimilation by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore (Goodreads Author), Chris Grinnell (Contributor), Charlie Jane Anders (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.05 avg rating — 1,300 ratings — published 2004 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex by Eric A. Stanley (Goodreads Author) (editor), Nat Smith (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 4.44 avg rating — 1,076 ratings — published 2011 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Against Equality: Queer Critiques of Gay Marriage by Ryan Conrad (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Yasmin Nair (Introduction), Martha Jane Kaufman (Contributor) 4.05 avg rating — 432 ratings — published 2010 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Trap Door: Trans Cultural Production and the Politics of Visibility by Reina Gossett (Editor), Eric A. Stanley (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Johanna Burton (Editor) 4.51 avg rating — 146 ratings — published 2017 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Atmospheres of Violence: Structuring Antagonism and the Trans/Queer Ungovernable 4.24 avg rating — 79 ratings — published 2021 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Death and Other Penalties: Philosophy in a Time of Mass Incarceration by Geoffrey Adelsberg (Editor), Lisa Guenther (Editor), Scott Zeman (Editor) 4.25 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2015 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Abolition is not some disstant future but something we create in every moment when we say no to the traps of empire and yes to the nourishing possibilities dreamed of and practiced by our ancestors and friends. Every time we insist on accessible and affirming health care, safe and quality education, meaningful and secure employment, loving and healing relationships, and being our full and whole selves, we are doing abolition. Abolition is about breaking down things that oppress and building up things that nourish. Abolition is the practice of transformation in the here and now and the ever after.”
― Eric A. Stanley, Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex

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“Taking an abolitionist stance does not mean refusing to engage in incremental change, nor does it mean abandoning efforts to improve conditions inside prisons. Rather, abolitionists engage in 'abolitionist reforms' or 'non-reformist reforms.' These are reforms that either directly undermine the prison industrial complex or provide support to prisoners through strategies that weaken, rather than strengthen, the prison system itself. For example, rather than lobbying for bigger prison health budgets to care for elderly prisoners, an abolitionist reform strategy would aim to get elderly prisoners out on compassionate release to obtain healthcare in the community. --S. Lamble”
― Eric A. Stanley, Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex

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“Fanon reads suicide of the oppressed as a practice that dissolves the colonizer's responsibility for the massive violence he perpetuates, closing the circuit he names as 'fate' on the outside/inside of coloniality. Fate, then, exists as an object of misappropriated cathexis that allows for the externalization of the drama of suicide - the oppressed are left without choice and thus the oppressors are left without blame. Caught in a trap, their failure to adhere to the demands of the colonizers brings with it death, while surviving means a death in life. Through suicide the colonized are rendered not as 'reasonable human beings' as they are overcome with the irrationality of autodestruction.”
― Eric A. Stanley, Atmospheres of Violence: Structuring Antagonism and the Trans/Queer Ungovernable

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