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DeFilippis, Joseph Nicholas

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“…Cohen (1999) proposes that queer activists take up this same analysis in order to inform an expansion of queer subjectivity to all individuals who experience marginalization and to center the needs of marginalized persons in order to create a transformational politics. Scholars and organizers have applied these leftist and queer of color critiques to the mainstream LGBTQ+ movement, questioning the focus on single-issue struggles such as marriage equality, which privilege normative, monogamous relationships and forms of family formation, at the expense of broader coalitional organizing that might benefit LGBTQ+ people as well as others that are rendered “queer” by the state (DeFilippis, 2018).…”

Section: Feminist and Queer Theories As Critical Interventionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…(p. 116)There are numerous examples of abolitionist organizations, campaigns, grassroots projects, and collective actions led by LGBTQ+ people of color. Here, we examine the work of BreakOut!, the TJLP, and Black & Pink, three organizations that leverage anticarceral feminisms (e.g., Kim, 2012; Mehrotra et al, 2016; Richie, 2012) and leftist, coalitional politics from within queer theory (e.g., Cohen, 1997, DeFilippis, 2018) in their work. These organizations were selected as case studies for the different ways they engage abolitionist principles and for the diverse geographic areas that they represent: the southern United States (BreakOut!…”

Section: Queering Decarcerationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…As part of their organizing, BreakOUT! employed the left analysis recommended by Cohen (1999) and DeFilippis (2018) to form a diverse coalition of constituents touched by the criminal legal system, including the Congress of Day Laborers ( Congreso ) and the Orleans Parish Prison Reform Coalition (BreakOUT!, n.d.-b). In celebrating their legislative victory, BreakOUT!…”

Section: Queering Decarcerationmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Queering Smart Decarceration: Centering the Experiences of LGBTQ+ Young People to Imagine a World Without Prisons

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Addressing mass incarceration through smart decarceration initiatives is one of the Grand Challenges for Social Work named by the American Academy of Social Work Welfare and Research. The exponential growth of the U.S. prison system is largely due to legislation that targets marginalized communities, including people of color, poor people, people with mental illness, and those living with disabilities, as well as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ+) people of all ages. In this article, we seek to complicate the current conversation on smart decarceration by arguing that social workers committed to addressing mass incarceration should engage abolitionist theory, politics, and organizing in their work in order to effectively address the root causes driving the buildup of the prison nation. We engage feminist and queer theories as two theoretical interventions that can guide this work. We next describe how LGBTQ+ youth enter the criminal legal system, highlighting how normative systems of gender and sexuality subject LGBTQ+ youth to punitive policing, surveillance, and discipline. Finally, we share three models of prison abolitionist organizing led by LGBTQ+ people of color as case studies. By examining how these organizations embrace queer and feminist abolitionist frameworks, we identify concrete ways that social workers can adopt abolitionist principles and practices in their work to address mass incarceration.

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Section: Feminist and Queer Theories As Critical Interventionsmentioning

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Section: Queering Decarcerationmentioning

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Why participate? An intersectional analysis of LGBTQ people of color activism in Canada

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The Politics of Kinship

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How does “family” function as an inherently racializing category within liberal political economy? How does this racialized assemblage of enfamilyment function as a way of securing the distinction between governance and the private sphere in ways that enable other formations of governance to be cast as deviant, dangerous, backward, and criminal? What constitutes a political order, and how do processes of racialization enacted by the liberal state mobilize notions of home, family, and gendered personhood in order to circumscribe possibilities for acknowledging other political orders (Indigenous and otherwise)? How might racialization itself, then, be understood as a mode of primitive accumulation?

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Queering Smart Decarceration: Centering the Experiences of LGBTQ+ Young People to Imagine a World Without Prisons

Why participate? An intersectional analysis of LGBTQ people of color activism in Canada

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