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Pathologized terrorized and confined trans/gender nonconforming and queer folks have always struggled against the prison industrial complex Eric A Stanley and Nat Smith bring together current and former prisoners activists and academics for a new understanding of how race gender ability and sexuality are lived under the crushing weight of captivity Through a politic of gender selfdetermination this collection argues that trans/ queer liberation and prison abolition must be grown together From rioting against police violence and critiquing hate crimes legislation to prisoners demanding access to HIV medications and far beyond Captive Genders is a challenge for us all to join the struggle This expanded second edition includes a new foreword from CeCe McDonald and essays by Chelsea Manning Kalaniopua Young and Janetta Louise Johnson and Toshio Meronek