NecHocNecIllud
I'm androgyne, transexual, poly, and androphilic. Nec hoc nec illud is Latin slang for bisexual, but I use it because it translates loosely as "Neither one thing nor the other." I think this is a good description of me, even though I'm not bisexual. This tumblr is neither one thing nor another also. It's random stuff I'm randomly interested in. I don't do "reblog if you believe X" posts, as I feel they are coercive to the reader and if you read my stuff you already know what I believe.
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December82012
Today in Actual Irony: Nation’s First Privately Owned State Prison Riddled With Violations Of State Law
An Ohio prison owned by Corrections Corporation of America, one of the largest private prison companies in the US, has failed to meet state standards in food quality, sanitation, hygiene, and many other areas, according to a recently concluded audit. In total, the CCA prison had 47 violations.
CityBeat details the abysmal conditions at the Ohio facility, the first privately owned state prison in the country:
The local fire plan had no specific steps to release inmates from locked areas in case of emergency, and local employees said “they had no idea what they should do” in case of a fire emergency.
The audit also found all housing units provided less than the required 25 square feet on unencumbered space per occupant. It found single watch cells held two prisoners with some sleeping on the floor, and some triple-bunked cells had a third inmate sleeping on a mattress on the floor.
Inmates claimed laundry and cell cleaning services were not provided and CCA could not prove otherwise, recreation time was not always allowed five times a week in segregation as required, food quality and sanitization was not up to standards, infirmary patients were “not seen timely,” patients’ doctor appointments were often delayed with follow-ups rarely occurring, the facility had no written confined space program, the health care administrator could not explain or show an overall plan and nursing competency evaluations were not completed before the audit was conducted. Many more issues were found as well.
(via rather-facile)
November182012
Inmate Education.
October212012
I am living for this: “Yall better quiet down!”
Sylvia Rivera kicking ass on stage after some radfems & transphobes tried to refuse her the right to speak at the 1973 Christopher Street Liberation Day rally. Said radfems then had their own march in part protesting trans participation in Pride. A precursor to today’s Dyke March.
40 years later in the very same park trans women are still fighting for space within Pride as this year’s Dyke March fiasco demonstrated. I’m feeling challenged and troubled by the narrative that trans women’s response to transphobia must take the “form of serious, calm, point by point analyses of why radfems are wrong” as Stephen Ira pointed out.
What strikes me about this video is that she isn’t trying to be calm and collected after being attacked. She’s not internalizing the notion that fighting transphobia has to take on the oppressive notion of “respectability.”
These conversations have left me wondering: has the non profit industrial complex and professionalized activism gentrified our political activity?
So within all of that, I say: nothing but love and power to trans women creating space for ourselves in queer community! Special shout out to Voz who inspired this post!
July242012
These are graph from “Injustice at Every Turn” showing rate of sexual assault in jail/prison. The first graph is the rates of sexual assaults for trans women by race. The rates break down as follows:
- Nineteen percent of all trans women who went to jail/prison
- Thirty-eight percent of Black trans women
- Thirty percent of America Indians trans women
- Twenty-five percent of trans Latinas
- Twenty-four percent of multiracial trans women
- Twelve percent of White trans women
- Too small of a sample to report for Asian Pacific Islander trans women
According to “Injustice at Every Turn,” a report of institutionalized discrimination against trans people: “Transgender women of color were particularly vulnerable to sexual assault in jail/prison. Thirty-eight percent (38%) of Black [trans women] respondents reported being sexually assaulted by either another inmate or a staff member in jail/prison.”
Multiracial, Latina, Black and American Indian trans women are twice to more then three times as likely as White trans women to be sexually assaulted in prison.
This is the only statistic in the report that simultaneously accounts for both the race and gender of participants. Taken by themselves trans women and trans people of color experience higher rates of discrimination than trans men, nonbinary and white trans people.
The second graph shows sexual assault rates in prison/jail by gender. The rates are for trans women:
- Eighteen percent by inmates
- Seven percent by staff
- Twenty percent by anyone
For trans men:
- Two percent by inmates
- Four percent by staff
- Six percent by anyone
For all trans people:
- Fourteen percent by inmates
- Seven percent by staff
- Sixteen percent by anyone
Gender nonconforming people:
- Six percent by inmates
- Four percent by staff
- Eight percent by anyone
Trans women in jail/prison are three to nine times as likely to be sexually assaulted by inmates, nearly twice as likely to be sexually assaulted by staff, and about three (2.5 - 3.33) times as likely to be sexually assaulted by anyone when compared to trans men and gender nonconforming people in jail/prison.
The third graph shows sexual assault rates in prison/jail by race. These break down for all trans people who went to jail/prison:
- Thirteen percent by inmates
- Six percent by staff
- Fifteen percent by anyone
American Indian (sample size too small for reliable analysis):
- Twenty-seven percent by inmates
- Eighteen percent by staff
- Twenty-seven percent by anyone
Asian Pacific Islander (sample size too small for reliable analysis):
- Six percent by inmates
- Six percent by staff
- Eleven percent by anyone
Black:
- Thirty-two percent by inmates
- Nine percent by staff
- Thirty-four percent by anyone
Latin@:
- Twenty-one percent by inmates
- Seven percent by staff
- Twenty-four percent by anyone
White:
- Seven percent by inmates
- Four percent by staff
- Nine percent by anyone
Multiracial:
- Fourteen percent by inmates
- Eight percent by staff
- Sixteen percent by anyone
With a similar break down to that of the first graph showing race and gender, trans people of color in jail/prison are significantly more likely to be sexually assaulted when compared to White trans people in jail/prison.
i wonder what the exact statistic is for nonbinary trans people
(via faysbook)
July122012
This man died after a prison tried to “cut costs” by turning away his ambulance.
Here’s how private contractors can cause problems at government-run prisons.
This is horrific.
(via browngurlwfro)
July102012
Alito Stands Up For Mandatory Life Sentences For Juvenile Murderers
Among the several big decisions delivered today, including apartial overturning of Arizona’s SB 1070and adefense of Citizens United, the Supreme Court ruled, 5-4, that mandatory life sentences without parole for juveniles convicted of murder violate the Eighth Amendment.
“By requiring that all children convicted of homicide receive lifetime incarceration without possibility of parole, regardless of their age and age-related characteristics and the nature of their crimes, the mandatory sentencing schemes before us violate this principle of proportionality, and so the Eighth Amendment’s ban on cruel and unusual punishment,” Justice Elena Kagan wrote in the majority opinion. Kagan was joined by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Justice Stephen Breyer, Justice Sonya Sotomayor, and Justice Anthony Kennedy.
The decision inspired three separate dissenting opinions, from Chief Justice John Roberts, Justice Clarence Thomas, and Justice Samuel Alito, who felt strongly enough that he read a portion of his opinion from the bench.
“Even a 17½-year-old who sets off a bomb in a crowded mall or guns down a dozen students and teachers is a ‘child’ and must be given a chance to persuade a judge to permit his release into society,” Alito wrote. “Nothing in the Constitution supports this arrogation of legislative authority.”
Alito argued that the majority decision shows that Eighth Amendment cases are “no longer tied to any objective indicia of society’s standards.”
“Future cases may extrapolate from today’s holding, and this process may continue until the majority brings sentencing practices into line with whatever the majority views as truly evolved standards of decency,” he wrote.
Please note that Alito seems to ignore — deliberately, I hope, because the alternative is that he’s stupid — that this is just about mandatory sentencing. The majority did not rule that juveniles can not be subjected to life in prison, just that it could not be mandatory. You know, due process and the right of the accused to defend himself and all that. You know that Constitution that Alito seems to think gives lots of rights to corporations?
A judge and/or jury can still decide that “ a 17½-year-old who sets off a bomb in a crowded mall or guns down a dozen students and teachers is a ‘child’” who is mature enough to understand the consequences of his or her actions and be sentenced accordingly.
It is profoundly disturbing to me that Alito — or any Supreme Court Justice — seems to think that judges shouldn’t be given any leeway in the application of the law or sentencing, and seeks to shackle them to mandatory sentencing guidelines set up by politicians, not legal scholars.
The Roberts Court is the very definition of Activist Court. This is frightening to me, because they’re just getting started. The court may not tip back to sanity in my lifetime.
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