Stanley-Eric-Captive-Genders-Trans-Embodiment-and-Prison-Industrial-Complex

acknowledgementsLike all struggle we have not acted alone. We would like to acknowledgethe labor, support, and guidance of the following people: Ralowe T.Ampu, Ryan Conrad, Angela Y. Davis, Jay Donahue, Jason Fritz, RuthWilson Gilmore, Donna Haraway, Rachel Herzing, Rebecca Hurdis,Kentaro Kaneko, Colby Lenz, Matt Luton, Toshio Meronek, José Muñoz,Yasmin Nair, Isaac Ontiveros, Julia Chinyere Oparah, Adam Reed,Andrea Ritchie, Chris Smith, the late Will Smith, Dean Spade, MattildaBernstein Sycamore, Chris Vargas, and Ari Wohlfeiler.Working with organizations, collectives, and with unaffiliated peopleis essential to grounding the analysis put forth by this book. While centralto the project of abolition, writing must always be produced withinthe context of action. Similarly, action devoid of analysis often makes forshaky ground upon which to build.AK Press has been supportive of this project from its beginning manyyears ago. We are also grateful for the people who have and continue to organizewith the Bay Area NJ4 Solidarity Committee, Critical Resistance,Gay Shame, the Sylvia Rivera Law Project, Transgender, Gender Variant,and Intersex Justice Project, and the amazing people who organized TransformingJustice, the groundbreaking conference held in 2007.Captive Genders is evidence of a collective dedication to abolishingthe prison industrial complex (PIC). When we first started talking abouta possible writing project in 2006 we wanted to push the LGBT movementtowards a deeper understanding of the role the PIC plays in ourlives. Specifically we wanted to focus on the ways in which the LGBTix