In this episode, Karma Chávez talks with University of Illinois-Chicago Professor Beth Richie, author of the "carcerality" entry in Keywords for Gender and Sexuality Studies. Dr. Richie discusses her life long work challenging prisons and mass incarceration, the importance of challenging carceral logics through teaching inside and outside of prisons, and the necessity of a feminist abolitionist politics.

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Karma R. Chávez (she/her) is Chair and Bobby and Sherri Patton Professor in the Department of Mexican American and Latina/o Studies at UT Austin | @queermigrations

Beth E. Richie (she/her) is Head of the Department of Criminology, Law, and Justice and Professor of African American Studies at the University of Illinois in Chicago.

Resources:

• Feminist Keywords Collective, Keywords for Gender and Sexuality Studies. New York: NYU Press, 2021. (keywords.nyupress.org)
• Richie, Beth E. Arrested Justice: Black Women, Violence, and America’s Prison Nation. New York: NYU Press, 2012. (https://nyupress.org/9780814776223/arrested-justice/)
• Davis, Angela Y., Gina Dent, Erica R. Meiners, and Beth E. Richie. Abolition. Feminism. Now. Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2022.(https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1546-abolition-feminism-now)
• Kim, Alice, Erica R. Meiners, Jill Petty, Audrey Petty, Beth E. Richie, and Sarah Ross. The Long Term: Resisting Life Sentences, Working Toward Freedom. Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2018.(https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1161-the-long-term)