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The Only Freedom I Can See“nelly,” “drag queen,” “sister.” While some prisoners present in gender-non-normativeways, they may not describe themselves as “trans” or “transgender.”6. Henry A. Giroux, The Terror of Neoliberalism Authoritarianism and the Eclipse ofDemocracy (New York: Paradigm, 2004): p. xiii.7. David Harvey, A Brief History of Neoliberalism (Oxford: Oxford University Press,2005): p. 11.8. Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition inGlobalizing California (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007): p. 28.9. Chandra Mohanty, Feminism Without Borders: Decolonizing Theory, PracticingSolidarity (London: Duke University Press, 2003): p. 234.10. Harvey, p. 19.11. See in general Henry Giroux, The Terror of Neoliberalism: Authoritarianism andthe Eclipse of Democracy (London: Paradigm, 2004) and Lisa Duggan, The Twilightof Equality? Neoliberalism, Cultural Politics, and the Attack on Democracy(Boston: Beacon Press, 2003).12. Anna Agathangelou, et al. “Intimate Investments: Homonormativity, GlobalLockdown, and the Seductions of Empire,” p. 137.13. Ruth Wilson Gilmore, “Globalisation and US Prison Growth: From MilitaryKeynesianism to Post-Keynesian Militarism,” Race & Class, Vol. 40, No. 2/3,1998/99: p. 178.14. Loïc Wacquant, “The Penalisation of Poverty and the Rise of Neoliberalism,”European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research, No. 9, 2001: p. 405.15. Julia Sudbury, “Celling Black Bodies: Black Women in the Global Prison IndustrialComplex,” Feminist Review, No. 80, 2005: p. 166.16. Dylan Rodríguez, “‘I Would Wish Death on You…:’ Race, Gender, and Immigrationin the Globality of the US Prison Regime,” The Scholar and FeministOnline, Vol. 6, No. 3, Summer 2008: p. 12.17. “R,” Personal correspondence, March 4, 2008: p. 5.18. Kamala Visweswaran, Fictions of Feminist Ethnography (Minneapolis: Universityof Minnesota Press, 1994): p. 68.19. Avery Gordon, Ghostly Matters: Haunting and the Sociological Imagination (Minneapolis:University of Minnesota Press, 1997): p. 26.20. While I am cautious about doing so, I share R’s life story and experiences ather request. I take seriously critiques of the representational crises involved inwriting about violence and terror. For instance in her work on terror, violence,and slavery, Saidiya Hartman writes, “[H]ow does one give expression to theseoutrages without exacerbating the indifference to suffering that is consequenceof the benumbing spectacle or contend with the narcissistic identification thatobliterates the other or prurience that too often is the response to such displays?”183