Queer (In)Justice Reading Group
September 30
7-9 PM ET / 6-8 PM CT / 5-7 PM MT / 4-6 PM PT
Online
Join Interrupting Criminalization and co-authors Joey Mogul, Andrea J. Ritchie, and Kay Whitlock for a hot queer resistance summer Queer (In)Justice reading group!
Fifteen years ago, the book Queer (In)Justice: The Criminalization of LGBT People in the United States issued a clarion call to mainstream LGBTQ+ organizations and groups working on violence, policing, and punishment. A decade and a half later, the histories, controlling narratives, legal frameworks, cases, lessons and stories of resistance to criminalization of queer and trans people reflected in Queer (In)Justice remain deeply relevant amidst dramatically escalating and expanding targeting at the federal, state, and local levels.
Whether you’ve never heard of the book or you want to revisit it in the current context, we hope you’ll join the co-authors and their special guests for a summer resistance reading group!
We kicked off our first session on June 30th during Pride month, followed by another session on July 30th. We invite you to join us for the last session on September 30th at 7-9 PM ET / 6-8 PM CT / 5-7 PM MT / 4-6 PM PT.
Register on the encrypted form linked below. You do not need to have read the book to attend — all are welcome to join! And don’t worry if you’ve missed a session or two; please feel free to come through on September 30th for our last session!
Queer (In)Justice Reading Group Sessions
Don’t worry if you haven’t read the book or can’t make it to all the sessions. Join us for any of the sessions to learn more, connect and be in community with others!
Session 1: June 30th
Chapter 1 - Setting the Historical Stage: Colonial Legacies
Chapter 2 - Gleeful Gay Killers, Lethal Lesbians, and Deceptive Gender Benders: Queer Criminal Archetypes
Session 2: July 30th
Chapter 3 - The Ghosts of Stonewall: Policing Gender, Policing Sex
Chapter 4 - Objection! Treatment of Queers in Criminal Courts
Chapter 5 - Caging Deviance: Prisons as Queer Spaces
Session 3: September 30th
Chapter 6 - False Promises: Criminal Legal Responses to Violence Against LGBT People
Chapter 7: Over the Rainbow: Where do We Go From Here?