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"Feminist Jails" w/ Mon M. and Diana Joy (09/08/22)

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🗓️ 8 September 2022

⏱️ 91 minutes

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Beatrice speaks to organizers Mon M. and Diana Joy about resisting proposals to open a "feminist jail" in New York, carceral humanism, and the difference between decarceration and abolition. Mon M. is an abolitionist organizer based in New York and the author of a recent op-ed arguing against so-called “humane” jails published in Teen Vogue called: ‘Feminist’ Jail Proposals Contribute to Mass Incarceration.” Diana Joy is a prison industrial complex and coercive psych abolitionist who organizes with Survived and Punished New York. As always, support Death Panel at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod Pre-orders are now live for Bea and Artie's book! Pre-order HEALTH COMMUNISM here: bit.ly/3Af2YaJ Death Panel merch here (patrons get a discount code): www.deathpanel.net/merch join our Discord here: discord.com/invite/3KjKbB2

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Trying to say that this is like a feminist jail is about assimilating feminism,

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assimilating the like radical potential of feminism and the like dreams that feminism might have

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into this kind of project and making feminism subject to something like incarceration.

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I mean, there's a reason the term carcleral feminism exists, you know, and it's forced things like this. The Welcome to the death panel.

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I'm so excited today to be joined by two guests to talk about what are sometimes called

1:18.1

carceral humanist reform projects or reformist reforms, which are projects that under the

1:25.0

guise of, quote, addressing needs or creating humane replacement

1:29.8

for incarceration only truly strengthened the gateways of imprisonment and the sites where it happens.

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Our first guest, Mon M, is an abolitionist organizer and member of No New Jails Network.

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Mon is also the author of a recent op-ed arguing against so-called humane jails published in

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Teen Vogue called feminist jail proposals contribute to mass incarceration.

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Mon, welcome to the death panel.

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Hi, thanks for having me.

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Thank you so much for being here today.

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And our second guest is Diana Joy.

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