Queer (In)Justice Reading Group
June 30, July 30, and August 31
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’ll be kicking it off during Pride month on June 30th from 7-9 PM ET / 6-8 PM CT / 5-7 PM MT / 4-6 PM PT, and continuing July 30th and August 31st at the same times.
Register on the encrypted form linked below for one, two, or all three sessions!
Queer (In)Justice Reading Group Sessions
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: August 31st
Chapter 6 - False Promises: Criminal Legal Responses to Violence Against LGBT People
Chapter 7: Over the Rainbow: Where do We Go From Here?