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Fugitive Life - The Queer Politics of the Prison State (Hardcover)
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Fugitive Life - The Queer Politics of the Prison State (Hardcover)
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During the 1970s in the United States, hundreds of feminist, queer,
and antiracist activists were imprisoned or became fugitives as
they fought the changing contours of U.S. imperialism, global
capitalism, and a repressive racial state. In Fugitive Life Stephen
Dillon examines these activists' communiques, films, memoirs,
prison writing, and poetry to highlight the centrality of gender
and sexuality to a mode of racialized power called the
neoliberal-carceral state. Drawing on writings by Angela Davis, the
George Jackson Brigade, Assata Shakur, the Weather Underground, and
others, Dillon shows how these activists were among the first to
theorize and make visible the links between conservative "law and
order" rhetoric, free market ideology, incarceration, sexism, and
the continued legacies of slavery. Dillon theorizes these prisoners
and fugitives as queer figures who occupied a unique position from
which to highlight how neoliberalism depended upon racialized mass
incarceration. In so doing, he articulates a vision of fugitive
freedom in which the work of these activists becomes foundational
to undoing the reign of the neoliberal-carceral state.
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