“Gender Violence and Anti-Black Racism: Reflections on the problem of Carceral Feminism and the possibilities of Prison Abolition”
While the movement to end gender-based violence can claim many successes, this presentation will critique the ways that some anti-violence strategies have relied on approaches that leave Black women and other marginalized groups in dangerous positions in the face of state violence. It will provide evidence of the ways that anti-Black racism has limited the effectiveness of intervention programs and the ways that carceral feminism has undermined attempts to reform public policy.