People's Guide to Abolition and Disability Justice
People's Guide to Abolition and Disability Justice
People's Guide to Abolition and Disability Justice
Description
Description
Disability justice and prison abolition are two increasingly
popular theories that overlap but whose intersection has rarely been
explored in depth.
A People's Guide to Abolition and Disability Justice explains
the history and theories behind abolition and disability justice in a
way that is easy to understand for those new to these concepts yet also
gives insights that will be useful to seasoned activists. The book uses
extensive research and professional and lived experience to illuminate
the way the State uses disability and its power to disable to
incarcerate multiply marginalized disabled people, especially those who
are queer, trans, Black, or Indigenous.
Because disabled people are much more likely than nondisabled people to
be locked up in prisons, jails, and other sites of incarceration,
abolitionists, and others critical of carceral systems must incorporate a
disability justice perspective into our work. A People's Guide to Abolition and Disability Justice gives
personal and policy examples of how and why disabled people are
disproportionately caught up in the carceral net, and how we can use
this information to work toward prison and police abolition more
effectively. This book includes practical tools and strategies that will
be useful for anyone who cares about disability justice or abolition
and explains why we can't have one without the other.
Critical Reviews
Critical Reviews
"An essential movement tool. Tastrom convincingly shows that police
and prison abolition and disability justice are core strategies for
liberation and that we can't win one without the other."
--Alex
Vitale, professor of sociology and coordinator of the Policing and
Social Justice Project at Brooklyn College and the CUNY Graduate Center,
and author of City of Disorder and The End of Policing
"A People's Guide to Abolition and Disability Justice
is a clear, accessible, and invaluable tool for not only dissecting the
depths of disability and criminalization but also illustrating how the
fights for disability justice and prison abolition are inextricably
linked."
--Victoria Law, author of Resistance Behind Bars: The Struggles of Incarcerated Women and "Prisons Make Us Safer" & 20 Other Myths about Mass Incarceration
"Reminding
us that abolition and disability justice must be, on a molecular level,
grown together, Katie Tastrom offers a manifesto, which is also to say
an atlas that leads us deeper into this analysis. Pushing against a
world where harms lived by some are reproduced under the promise of
safety for others, Tastrom insists that we must dream of more. Working
from personal experience and a wide genealogy of abolitionist crip
thought, this book is a necessary contribution to our collective study."
--Eric A. Stanley, author of Atmospheres of Violence: Structuring Antagonism and the Trans/Queer Ungovernable
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