PAST EXHIBITION
More Resilient: Queer + Trans Resistance to the Carceral State
Curated by AC Panella, Ph.D.
This exhibit is a combination of art and archival material looking at the people's places of resistance.
“Not the beginning but a start”
Transgender Liberation:
A Movement Whose Time Has Come by Leslie Feinberg
Compton’s Cafeteria Uprising and the Legacy of Police Violence
Panel Discussion with GLBT Historical Society
Featured Artist: Nicki Green
Breaking Dishes at Gene Compton’s, 2016
It's Almost as if We've Existed (Tres in Una), 2015. Glazed earthenware.Building a Movement: Miss Major
Oral History of Miss Major. Transgender Oral History Project, 2015
“Not a think of the past”
Cece McDonald
Free CeCe McDonald Panel. 2016-10-29. University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies..
Dominique Morgan
This is an interview with Dominique Morgan, a Black trans woman, prison abolition activist, and artist based in Omaha, Nebraska. At the time of this interview, Morgan was the Executive Director of Black and Pink, a nationwide prison abolitionist organization that provides direct services and support to currently and formerly incarcerated LGBTQIA+ people.
“A call for new futures: Tourmaline”
A Call for new futures
Dean Spade & Reina Gossett/Tourmaline
Exhibition Resources
Black & Pink National is a prison abolitionist organization dedicated to abolishing the criminal punishment system and liberating LGBTQIA2S+ people and people living with HIV/AIDS who are affected by that system through advocacy, support, and organizing.
Freeedom Overground’s mission is to ensure the safety and dignity of the incarcerated & formerly incarcerated TGNC/LGBQIA+ community. Freedom Overground serves to amplify the voices of incarcerated TGNC/LGBQIA+ people by empowering them before, during, and after incarceration.
The Digital Abolitionist is a platform supporting the movement for prison-industrial complex abolition.
The Dream Defenders was founded in April 2012 after the tragic killing of 17-year old Trayvon Martin by George Zimmerman in Sanford, Florida. We marched and fought for justice for Trayvon and so many like him. In the last decade, we have organized with and fought alongside thousands of young Floridians and with freedom fighters across the globe for a better future than we inherited
TGI Justice Project is a group of transgender, gender variant and intersex people–inside and outside of prisons, jails and detention centers–creating a united family in the struggle for survival and freedom.
“More Resilient: Queer & Trans Resistance to the Carceral State” Syllabus
What is Violence?
A Resource Guide for Teaching & Learning Abolition (2020-21) – Critical Resistance
Dean Spade (2020). The Queer and Trans Fight for Liberation — and Abolition. Abolition for the People, LEVEL
Lewis Wallace & Micah Bazant (2020). Miklat Miklat: a transformative justice zine. Critical Resistance
“P.I.M.P: Prostitutes in Municipal Politics” in Policing Public Sex, edited by Dangerous Bedfellows (South End Press: Boston, 1995) pages 251-262
The Case for Abolition
"Yes, We Mean Literally Abolish the Police" by Mariame Kaba in the New York Times (June 12, 2020)
Ch. 1 of' "Are Prisons Obsolete?" by Angela Davis
Ruth Wilson Gilmore's "The Case for Abolition" in The Intercept (June 10, 2020) (podcast)
No One is Disposable: Everyday Practices of Prison Abolition. Barnard Center for Research on Women: February 7, 2014
Abolitionist Futures
Walidah Imarisha, Alexis Gumbs, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Adrienne Maree Brown & Mia Mingus (2017). The Fictions and Futures of Transformative Justice. The New Inquiry
Beyond Prisons: A New Interfaith Paradigm for Our Failed Prison System, Laura Magnani and Harmon L. Wray (FortrSpade, Dean & Reina Gossett (2014) No one is Disposable: Everyday Practices of Abolition [videos]
Bay Area Transformative Justice Collective (2014) ‘Transformative Justice and Community Accountability’ [1 page]
Aorta Collective (2013) ‘Punitive, Restorative & Transformative Justice: The basics’ [2 pages]
Pauly, Madison & Alex Vitale (2020) What a world without cops would look like. MotherJones.com
Transformative justice
Bay Area Transformative Justice Collective (2014) ‘Transformative Justice and Community Accountability’
Aorta Collective (2013) ‘Punitive, Restorative & Transformative Justice: The basics’
MPD150 (2020) 10 actions ideas for building a police-free-future
Queer & Trans Abolition
Queer (In)justice: The Criminalization of LGBT People in the United States Joey Mogul, Andrea Ritchie, and Kay Whitlock (Beacon Press: Beacon Press, 2011) Ch. 5 “Caging Deviance: Prisons as Queer Spaces” pages 92-117
Lamble, S (2011) Ten Reasons to Dismantle the Prison Industrial Complex through Queer/Trans Analysis and Action. Captive Genders: Trans EmbodiStanley, Eric and Nat Smith (eds.) (2011) Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex. Oakland, California: AK Press.
Stanley, Eric and Dean Spade and Queer (In)Justice (2012) ‘Queering Prison Abolition, Now?’ American Quarterly. pp. 115-127.
Feminist Abolition
Caradonna, Lydia (2020) I don’t want my rapists to go to prison [content note: descriptions of rape)
Law, Victoria (2014) Against Carceral Feminism JacobinMag.com
Ryder, Oonagh and Mo Mansfield (2018) “Just Paint the Walls Pink”: Gender, Prison and Carceral Feminism. Lockdown podcast. [Suggest listening to part]
Exhibition Resources
Black & Pink National is a prison abolitionist organization dedicated to abolishing the criminal punishment system and liberating LGBTQIA2S+ people and people living with HIV/AIDS who are affected by that system through advocacy, support, and organizing.
Freeedom Overground’s mission is to ensure the safety and dignity of the incarcerated & formerly incarcerated TGNC/LGBQIA+ community. Freedom Overground serves to amplify the voices of incarcerated TGNC/LGBQIA+ people by empowering them before, during, and after incarceration.
The Digital Abolitionist is a platform supporting the movement for prison-industrial complex abolition.
The Dream Defenders was founded in April 2012 after the tragic killing of 17-year old Trayvon Martin by George Zimmerman in Sanford, Florida. We marched and fought for justice for Trayvon and so many like him. In the last decade, we have organized with and fought alongside thousands of young Floridians and with freedom fighters across the globe for a better future than we inherited
TGI Justice Project is a group of transgender, gender variant and intersex people–inside and outside of prisons, jails and detention centers–creating a united family in the struggle for survival and freedom.