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Journal Article
Lessons in Self-Defense: Gender Violence, Racial Criminalization, and Anticarceral Feminism
2015
Overview
The cases of women of color imprisoned for killing their sexual assailants played a catalytic role in the development of an anticarceral strand of feminist antiviolence politics during the 1970s. Radical women of color and antiracist white women built practical and analytical bridges between the mass defense campaigns for Joan Little, Inez Garcia, Yvonne Wanrow, and Dessie Woods, and those activist coalitions engendered new critiques and organizing efforts focused on the racial and gender violence perpetrated by the state as well as by individuals. In the intervening decades between the National Third World Women and Violence conference and today, the need for a transformative politics has indisputably grown more acute, as the US carceral state and its attendant racial and gender violences have expanded tremendously. The opening plenary at the INCITE conference featured Yvonne Swan (formerly Wanrow) in conversation with Marissa Alexander, CeCe McDonald, and Renata Hill, three black women imprisoned in recent years for defending themselves from violent attacks by intimate partners or strangers.
