Deena Varner @dvarnerd
carceral studies :: social control :: corporate punishment :: lived experience :: From the Courtroom the Boardroom (UP of Kansas, May 2024) bsky: @ deena-varner kansaspress.ku.edu/9780700636594/… Texas, USA Joined May 2017-
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He did several episodes on a single bottomless hole. It wasn’t just a rock either. It was definitely thousands of feet of fishing line with lifesavers on the hook.
He did several episodes on a single bottomless hole. It wasn’t just a rock either. It was definitely thousands of feet of fishing line with lifesavers on the hook.
I just can't--it's like 9/10 tweets in my feed are virulent antitrans. I'm switching platforms.
There is still time to register for the Explorations in Carceral Geography book launch of Carceral Worlds: Legacies, Textures, Futures on Friday 22 November 12.00-14.00 CET. Complete your registration for the event here, to receive the Zoom link: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…
Great conversation on @WeAreUncuffed among incarcerated and formerly incarcerated men about their political subjectivity, including the implications of indentured servitude and Democrats implying that felons (vis-a-vis Trump) are unworthy of citizenship. npr.org/2024/11/02/nx-…
Now that the dust has settled and things have calmed down a bit, I do want to say a few things about my post the other day and what impelled me to write it. As we all have, I have been following the case in France with horror verging on incredulity at what this man and all 1/
But the internet of things is human too, in the end, and worthy of our love and respect!
The wonderful Tina McPhee and I published a paper 🥳 We use the work of Dean Spade and bell hooks to intimate why people with lived experience go on to use their expertise in criminology/ criminal justice. Read the paper here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/26…
FLS is looking for new people to join our wonderful editorial board! If you have an interest in feminist socio-legal research and a passion for building feminist publishing spaces, please consider applying. Fill out the form here to apply: forms.office.com/pages/response…
Good peer review suggestions are specific and actionable. Good peer reviewers have been the reason for my best writing, and I am eternally indebted to them for their care, attention, and grace.
Good peer review suggestions are specific and actionable. Good peer reviewers have been the reason for my best writing, and I am eternally indebted to them for their care, attention, and grace.
My new therapist’s required disclosures included that, contrary to professional ethics, they are mandated by to report to the state if I am planning to provide gender affirming care to a minor under my guardianship. In Texas, this is equivalent to planning a homicide.
My letter, and another, about the prison overcrowding got published. We must stop filling and building prisons | Prisons and probation | The Guardian theguardian.com/society/2024/s…

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