It Could Get Worse
Captive Genders exposes the Incarceration of Trans People
by Ryan Conrad on 5 December 2011
Foregrounding the history of gay bar raids, gendered clothing requirements, sodomy laws, and other carceral histories of policing gender and sexuality, Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex challenges the assumption that we can and should reform the prison system to work for us. Review by Conrad Ryan for 2Bmag.
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Proposed Omnibus Crime Bill puts Vengeance before Prevention
by Ethan Cox on 20 November 2011
The Omnibus Crime Bill C-10 is poised to set Canada back and undo decades of legislation and social services that truly prevent crime and build safer communities. The Bill will focus on petty crime, and further criminalize and imprison vulnerable people, such as queers, HIV positive people, and First Nations. Forget the Box staff writer Ethan Cox looked at how IT COULD GET WORSE if Bill C-10 is allowed to pass.
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