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Transforming Carceral LogicsAcknowledgements: I am grateful to the Prisoners Justice Action Committeein Toronto, especially Peter Collins and Giselle Dias for contributingso much to my understanding and practice of prisoner solidarity andanti-prison work. I also want to acknowledge the many lessons I learnedfrom working with people imprisoned in Central East Correctional Centerin Lindsay, Ontario, Canada. Much inspiration also comes from workby Critical Resistance, INCITE!, the Prisoner Correspondence Project inMontreal, and the Sylvia Rivera Law Project. Thanks also to Stacy Douglas,Greygory Glass, Toni Johnson, George Lavender, Dean Spade, MikeUpton, and the book editors for very helpful feedback and discussion.NOTES1. Queer Kids of Queer Parents Against Gay Marriage, “Resist the Gay MarriageAgenda!” Queer Kids of Queer Parents Against Gay Marriage Blog, Oct. 9, 2009.http://queerkidssaynomarriage.wordpress.com, accessed Oct. 10, 2009.2. When referring to prisons, I include all forms of forced or coerced state custody,such as jails, prisons, children’s detention centers, immigration detention centers,“secure” hospital beds and psychiatric facilities, prisoner of war camps, andsecret jails.3. Recognizing the inability of a single term to encapsulate the fluidity and specificityof people’s gender and sexual identities, and noting both the overlapping anddistinct dimensions of these identities, I use gender and sexual identity terms inthe following ways: By queer, I refer to people whose sexual desires, identities,and practices do not conform to heterosexual norms (including, but also goingbeyond, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, transsexual, intersex, two-spirit, andqueer people). By trans, I refer to people who identify or express gender differentlythan what is traditionally associated with the sex they were assigned atbirth (e.g. transgender, transsexual, two-spirit, male-to-female, female-to-male).By gender-non-conforming, I refer to people whose gender presentation or identitydoes not conform to gender norms or expectations (e.g. women who presentin a masculine way but nonetheless identify as women, as well as androgynous,gender-fluid, and gender ambiguous people).4. Critical Resistance and INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence, “GenderViolence and the Prison Industrial Complex,” in Color of Violence: The INCITE!Anthology, ed. INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence (Cambridge, Mass.:South End Press, 2006).5. The prison industrial complex is the network of governmental and private intereststhat use prison as a response to social, political, and economic problems.The prison industrial complex (PIC) includes all institutions, government255