W5: Queered by the system

Week 5: Queered by the system
In week 5 we began our second unit exploring the central question of: How is innocence constructed? We began by looking at how groups of people are queered by the system in prison abolition contexts.

• Mini-Presentation: Kai Davis, “Homicidal Rainbow” (cw: violence, school shootings, anti-queer violence)
• Cathy Cohen, “Punks, Bulldaggers, and Welfare Queens”

• Erica R. Meiners, “The Trouble with the Child and the Carceral State” (cw: anti-Black violence, suicide, prisons)

• Sabina Vaught, “Structural Liberalism and Anti-Bullying Legislation” (cw: prisons, bullying)
• “Prisons Will Not Protect You,” Against Equality - pick 2 articles before page 215*
• Mia Mingus, “Still Choosing to Leap: Building Alternatives”
• Stay Solid, “Unschooling, deschooling”
• Stay Solid, Walia (cw: police violence)
• Optional:
• Critical Resistance, “Not So Common Language”
• Abolish Prisons, “Ahmed Mohamed and the School-To-Prison Pipeline” (cw: police violence, islamophobia)

In class:

• Watch: Joshua Allen, “A World Without Cages” (anti-Black, anti-trans violence)

Slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1tkGVsA17Jkse2sRrnuAevtjygyVfoTNHdFKkVOqe7uo/edit?usp=sharing