Writing

Below, you’ll find my writing organized by publication year. For questions on any specific essay or current works in progress, feel free to email me. 

My book project, Weaponizing and Resisting Time: Women, Jails, and the Temporality of Abolition, seeks to understand the interplay of race, gender, and time in the structuring of women's lives and daily activity while in jail. I expose how time is manipulated by powerful local and state criminal legal actors throughout their custody (for both sentenced women and those awaiting trial). I thus look at how the management of time is key to statecraft. I interrogate how incarcerated women interacted with, manipulated, and resisted the time of imprisonment in such a liminal space. Weaponizing and Resisting Time also explores how innocuous self-affirming acts fed into interpersonal and community organizing within and outside the local jail. I collaborated with a community-based organization, Justice and Unity for the Southern Tier (JUST); our efforts – combined with field work – culminated in local public opinion pieces, educational presentations, protests, successful lawsuits, mutual aid projects, and other collaborative efforts with community members, academics, and people imprisoned in Upstate New York.