Policing Gender

Policing Gender

Policing Gender A Latina butch lesbian arrested at a demonstration in New York City by cells holding men, telling her “you think you’re a man, I’ll put you in there and we’ll see what happens to you.” “Gender policing, like race based policing, has always been part of...
Policing Gender

Policing Native Women & Native Two Spirit and Trans People

Policing Native Women & Native Two Spirit and Trans People The American Friends Service Committee reports that Native women in small communities in Maine were routinely profiled as prescription drug abusers, and, as a result, when detained in a Maine jail were...
Policing Gender

Participatory Action Research

Participatory Action Research What is Participatory Action Research?   …and what does it have to do with stopping police brutality against women and trans people of color? Participatory Action Research, or “PAR”, is a way of collecting...
Policing Gender

Organizing Tools & Strategies

Organizing Tools & Strategies Organizing strategies   Share your story as a woman of color and trans person of color who has experienced violence from law enforcement. Please contact us for more information. Build coalitions between anti-police...
Policing Gender

Khaki and Blue: A Killer Combination

Khaki and Blue: A Killer Combination U. S. police brutality abroad   An Iraqi woman in her 70s had been harnessed and ridden like a donkey by U.S. soldiers at Abu Ghraib after being arrested without charge in July 2003. Law enforcement violence is not limited to...