No Place for Families
Only an end to family court can lead to a radical reimagining of how we support children and caregivers.
5 posts in ‘social control’
Only an end to family court can lead to a radical reimagining of how we support children and caregivers.
The lives of undocumented immigrants are very much documented—subject to the surveillance that’s endemic to contemporary life in the United States.
We must challenge the dominant carceral narrative that one is born an addict and a criminal—rather than constructed as one by those in power.
Criminalizing pain medicine has led patients to despair while the carceral state forces their medical decisions. But it has also opened avenues for solidarity between pain sufferers and incarcerated people.
In the history of a shuttered lockup for queer women in New York City, a reminder that incarceration has always been a form of social control.