Carceral Feminism

No More Police reframes safety by taking it out of punishment infrastructure and into care, survivor support, and social redesign, advancing abolitionist feminist and transformative justice frameworks.

This collaborative work traces abolition feminism through women-of-color, queer, anti-capitalist, internationalist movement histories.

Maya Schenwar and Victoria Law show how electronic monitoring, house arrest, and mandated treatment can expand punishment beyond prison walls.

Liat Ben-Moshe connects deinstitutionalization with prison abolition, challenging the claim that closing institutions caused mass incarceration.

Emily L. Thuma reconstructs the anticarceral politics developed from the 1970s into the early 1980s by criminalized women and Black, queer, prisoner, and psychiatric-survivor organizers.

Andrea Ritchie documents police violence against Black women, Indigenous women, immigrant women, sex workers, and trans women whose experiences are often erased from public narratives.

Mai Masri’s prison drama follows a Palestinian teacher who gives birth in Israeli custody, locating motherhood, collective resistance, and political imprisonment within the same carceral space.