Prison Research: testimonial carceral labor and abolition feminist solidarity
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Prison Research: testimonial carceral labor and abolition feminist solidarity
Kolleen Duley Department of Gender and Women’s Studies, SUNY Plattsburgh, Plattsburgh, USAKolleen Duley is an Associate Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies at SUNY Plattsburgh and an attorney providing pro bono legal services to incarcerated people. Kolleen holds a Ph.D. in Gender Studies and a J.D. from UCLA, with specializations in Critical Race Studies and Public Interest Law and Policy. Kolleen serves on the New York State Commission on Prison Education and as director of SUNY Plattsburgh’s higher education in prison program. Earlier movement work included advocacy with incarcerated survivors of interpersonal violence in California. Kolleen’s scholarship critiques how prison reforms mobilize gender to expand the carceral state and draws on qualitative interviews with formerly incarcerated people to rethink prison research ethics through system-impacted people’s theories and methods of solidarity.