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

MAKING IT HAPPEN, MAMA:A Conversation with Miss MajorJayden DonahueWe are at an important moment in the anti-prison industrial complexmovement. The largest prison expansion bill (AB 900) in the history ofthe world is currently being implemented in California. We are experiencingincreased policing of our communities through gang injunctionsand the collaboration of local police agencies with the federal governmentthrough ICE and Secure Communities as continued fear-mongering bolsteredby mainstream media urges us to become more dependent on statesponsoredsolutions to social problems and less reliant on the skills, tools,and knowledge that we already have to create and support self-determinedcommunities. History tells us that trans people and transwomen of colorin particular have played and continue to play a foundational role in thisfight. The Trans, Gender Variant, and Intersex Justice Project is one of a267