Nov 6, 2024 - "We Deserve Better": Contesting Racialized Sexual and Gender Policing, with Dr. Lydia Pelot-Hobbs (University of Kentucky, Geography)

Conversations on Race and Policing - California State University San Bernardino (CSUSB)

Join us for a conversation with Dr. Lydia Pelot-Hobbs (University of Kentucky, link).

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"We Deserve Better": Contesting Racialized Sexual and Gender Policing

This talk traces the New Orleans grassroots organization BreakOUT!'s "We Deserve Better" campaign (2010-2013) to reign in the everyday racial and gender profiling and state sanctioned sexual violence of the New Orleans Police Department. This case highlights the centrality of policing racialized gender and sexuality in the contemporary carceral state and how struggles over everyday criminalization have served as a pivot point for the future of post-Katrina New Orleans.

Find Dr. Pelot-Hobbs's new book, Prison Capital: Mass Incarceration and Struggles for Abolition Democracy in Louisiana, here at the publisher's website (link) and here at Amazon (link).

Thank you to the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, and the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee for sponsoring this event along with Pfau Library.

Series organizers (alphabetical) are Amber Broaden (CSUSB and CSU Dominguez Hills, Psychology), Stan Futch (President, Westside Action Group), Michael German (Brennan Center for Justice), Robie Madrigal (Pfau Library), Dr. Jeremy Murray (CSUSB History), Matt Patino (Crafton Hills College Adjunct Faculty), Dr. Mary Texeira (CSUSB Sociology). Click here to view previous panels in the Conversations on Race and Policing series (link).