Feminists Confront State Violence

Contributors to this special issue examine the state’s capacity to affirm life given its structural investments in violence, paying specific attention to how activists theorize and devise strategies to win redress from extant institutions. The authors document the ways feminists have negotiated a fundamental contradiction, asking how and why one makes demands for the equitable distribution of care, safety, and life in a state that inequitably distributes violence, immiseration, and death. Altogether, the essays in this issue provide an archival tool kit of Black, abolitionist, anarchist, anticolonial, and anticapitalist feminist strategies to radically remake worlds inside this one.

Contributors: Heather Berg, Spencer Beswick, Kaysha Corinealdi, Erica R. Edwards, Catherine Evans, Anne Gray Fischer, Randi Gill-Sadler, Emily K. Hobson, Mónica A. Jiménez, Marisol LeBrón, Sara Matthiesen, Jennifer Mogannam, Manijeh Moradian, Jessie B. Ramey, Romina A. Green Rioja, India Thusi