Assignment guidelines:
Please write 300 words reflection paper. Only cite readings that I provide in the upload file named "Assigned Texts".
The goal of this assignment is to make sure that you are actively and critically engaging with the assigned texts. Rather than summarizing, this is a space for you to develop your own analysis of the material.
Questions it may be helpful to consider in writing your reflection:
1. What are the main arguments? Do you find them convincing? Why or why not?
2. What points of comparison can you identify among these texts, and how do they relate to one another?
3. How do these texts relate to larger themes and topics of the course?
4. What questions do these texts bring up for you?
READ: Dean Spade, preface and conclusion in Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics, and the Limits of Law (7-17; 205-228)
Andrea Ritchie, "Mental Illness is Not a Capital Crime: On the Disproportionate Impact of Police Violence on Women of Color," Literary Hub, July 31, 2017, .
"Critical Resistance-Incite! Statement on Gender Violence and the Prison-Industrial Complex," The Intersection of Ideologies of Violence (2003): 141-150.