Twitter, Feministing style
By Alexandra Brodsky • @azbrodsky • 9 years ago

Feministing Follow Friday: Anti-Carceral Feminists, Vol. II

Twitter, Feministing style

We couldn’t limit our list of great anti-carceral feminists to just five.

So here’s our second volume of writers and organizers imagining and creating responses to gendered harms that don’t rely on the criminal justice system:

    • Melissa Gira Grant (@melissagira): Journalist & author, Playing The Whore: The Work of Sex Work (Verso). Writing: NYT, Guardian, The Nation, Salon. Email: mgg@melissagiragrant.com
    • Hannah Giorgis (@ethiopiennesays): black feminist cyborg | contributing writer  opinion, , & more | views my own | inquiries: info at ethiopienne dot com
    • Justice Now (@justicenoworg): We partner with people in women’s prisons and local communities to challenge gendered violence and build a safe, compassionate world without prisons.
    • Maya Schenwar (@MayaSchenwar): Editor in Chief, ! Author, Locked Down, Locked Out: Why Prison Doesn’t Work & How We Can Do Better. (November 2014). Opinions=mine.
    • Sylvia Rivera Law Project (@SRLP): The Sylvia Rivera Law Project (SRLP) works to guarantee that all people are free to self-determine their gender identity and expression

Leave more suggestions in the comments and maybe we’ll make a third volume. And remember to follow @feministing.

 

 

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Alexandra Brodsky was a senior editor at Feministing.com. During her four years at the site, she wrote about gender violence, reproductive justice, and education equity and ran the site's book review column. She is now a Skadden Fellow at the National Women's Law Center and also serves as the Board Chair of Know Your IX, a national student-led movement to end gender violence, which she co-founded and previously co-directed. Alexandra has written for publications including the New York Times, the Atlantic, the Guardian, and the Nation, and she is the co-editor of The Feminist Utopia Project: 57 Visions of a Wildly Better Future. She has spoken about violence against women and reproductive justice at campuses across the country and on MSNBC, ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, FOX, ESPN, and NPR.

Alexandra Brodsky was a senior editor at Feministing.com.

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