“The fake road, its cruel deception, is what we have to abandon”: Normalizing the In/Security State: Police and Prisons

Featuring Jordan Camp, Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Christina Heatherton, and Mariame Kaba. Moderated by Tina Campt.

“The fake road, its cruel deception, is what we have to abandon”: Normalizing the In/Security State: Police and Prisons was recorded on February 16, 2018 at the 43rd Annual Scholar & Feminist Conference, “Subverting Surveillance: Strategies to End State Violence.” For more visit the conference page.

Title quote from Adrienne Rich, “USonian Journals 2000: Incline,” The School Among the Ruins: 2000-2004 (New York: Norton, 2004).

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