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Introductionthe NJ4 repeatedly refused his verbal harassment. He began shouting louder,flicked a cigarette toward one of them, and threatened to “fuck them straight.” Afight broke out and a number of the NJ4 were physically attacked and the manwas wounded but fully recovered. Not surprisingly, all four of the women werefound guilty and were subsequently sentenced to between three and a half andeleven years in prison. As gender-non-conforming Black queers, their offensewas survival, and they were punished harshly for it.11. For more on alternatives to imprisonment, see Instead of Prisons: A Handbookfor Abolitionists (Oakland, Calif.: Critical Resistance, 2005) and Abolition Now!:Ten Years of Strategy and Struggle against the Prison Industrial Complex (Oakland,Calif.: AK Press, 2008).12. My many conversations with Angela Y. Davis continue to help me clarify thepoint that abolition is not imagined as only in response to the horrors of thePIC.11