The center of the carceral state is not, it turns out, the cold, frozen heart of the conservative dominated by an openly racist animus, but the warm, bleeding heart of liberalism, throbbing with feelings of goodness and tolerance.
If Season 1 made prison seem like Camp PrisonCanBeFun for girls, Season 2 is bleaker and filled with reminders that the only certainty about prison life, besides the roaches and the shit bubbling up through bad plumbing, is the absolute uncertainty.
Excerpt: It’s hard to not admire HRC in the same way: Like the Alien, it’s a perfect beast, unclouded by liberal or left delusions about parity or justice.
Children 404, a Russian-made documentary about Russian LGBTQ children and youth, is at the heart of a fundraising campaign, and North American scholars and activists are working to help the anonymous filmmakers make it a reality.
Noted trans activist, attorney, Sylvia Rivera Law Project (SRLP) founder and author Dean Spade was in Chicago presenting on his book, Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics and the Limits of Law. The event took place Sept. 24 in the DePaul Student Center.