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LOVE the Introduction by Eric Stanley and its analysis of gender self-determination; the chapter 'Building an Abolitionist Trans & Queer Movement with Everything We've Got' by Bassichis, Alexander Lee and Dean Spade has amazing tables outlining the "big problems"-"official approaches"-"transformative solutions"; the chapter 'Transforming Carceral Logics: 10 reasons to dismantle the PIC using a queer/trans analysis' by S. Lambel outlines ten really clear and concise arguments that tease out the intersections between the PIC and queer/trans politics and experiences; and Yasmin Nair's chapter 'How to Make Prisons Disappear: Queer Immigrants, the Shackles of Love, and the Invisibility of the PIC' is a really critical and complex take on the discourses surrounding queers and immigration that affirm heteronormative fantasies of romance, conforming models of gay coupledom and law-abiding citizenry and that disappear the violence of the PIC and enforce classed exclusions based on deviance and non-conformity (to nationalist ideals of family units).

This book is an amazing resource for Abolition and Queer and Trans Movement building, it offers theory, accounts of imprisonment, critiques and strategies. The writing is pretty accessible too! YAY all up.