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“Safe” Prisons? Challenging Violence Narratives and Anti-Gender Feminist Agendas
Introduction
Anti-trans rhetoric has increasingly infiltrated legal, policy, and public debates, becoming a powerful narrative trend and a set of legal proscriptions, including within feminist movements. At Just Futures Collaborative, we have observed that some feminists align with powerful actors and carceral institutions to push harmful agendas against trans and gender-diverse communities (among others). The campaigns by self-named “gender critical” feminists sometimes weaponize narratives of violence and women’s safety to vilify and punish those already pushed to the margins by the state and by dominant social groups, with a particular focus on trans women.
Our new article pushes back against the systematic campaign by anti-gender feminists to weaponize narratives about women’s safety and spread disinformation about prison settings to push a carceral agenda, and endanger the lives of trans, gender-diverse and non-conforming persons. They do so in alliance with powerful, unjust systems and actors, and cannot be relied on to advance a meaningful agenda of safety and rights for all.
Download the full article (English) here!