Gender & Sexuality

Combatting policing’s long history of upholding cisnormative and heteronormative patriarchy

Our Gender and Sexuality work group has its roots in the Coalition’s own self-reflection around how our community and membership were addressing queerphobia and misogyny internally.  This work was initiated (and continues to be led) by mostly femme, gender-expansive Coalition members who raised the need to address how patriarchy and power dynamics related to gender and sexuality manifested themselves in our spaces.    

While the Gender and Sexuality work group continues to house this internal accountability for the Stop LAPD Spying Coalition, we also lead the Coalition’s analysis of policing through the lens of gender and sexuality. The work group organizes against the criminalization of sex work; the state’s access to and power over people’s bodies; and incarceration based in sexual violence. The work group is also helping to combat state sanctioned gender-based violence globally, cultivating partnerships with groups in Colombia and Puerto Rico. 

List of posts about Gender and Sexuality

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  “DCF(S) STANDS FOR DIVIDING AND CONQUERING FAMILIES”May 14, 2023
  Read our new report about the family policing system.
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  PT 84: Police State and the Criminalization of Gender and SexualityDecember 5, 2021
  WEBINAR PART 84 – Tuesday December 7th at 6PM Recordings of Webinars 1 – 83 HERE – – Surveillance 101 Teach-In: 1 – 4 HERE Not A Moment In Time: Zine Issue: 1 – 2 HERE – – Coalition Weekly Update: HERE The National Security Police State always uses crisis like this to expand oppression,… Read More »PT 84: Police State and the Criminalization of Gender and Sexuality
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  PT 80: Police State and the Criminalization of Gender and Sexuality          October 31, 2021
  WEBINAR PART 80 Recording Here – Tuesday November 2nd at 6PM Recordings of Webinars 1 – 79 HERE – – Surveillance 101 Teach-In: 1 – 4 HERE Not A Moment In Time: Zine Issue: 1 – 2 HERE – – Coalition Weekly Update: HERE The National Security Police State always uses crisis like this to… Read More »PT 80: Police State and the Criminalization of Gender and Sexuality          
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  PT 76: Police State and the Criminalization of Gender and SexualityOctober 2, 2021
  WEBINAR PART 76 Recording Here – Tuesday October 5th at 6PM Recordings of Webinars 1 – 75 HERE – – Surveillance 101 Teach-In: 1 – 4 HERE Not A Moment In Time: Zine Issue: 1 – 2 HERE The National Security Police State always uses crisis like this to expand oppression, to expand surveillance, accumulate… Read More »PT 76: Police State and the Criminalization of Gender and Sexuality
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  PT 72: Police State and the Criminalization of Gender and SexualitySeptember 4, 2021
  WEBINAR PART 72 Recording Here – Tuesday September 7th at 6PM Recordings of Webinars 1 – 71 HERE – – Surveillance 101 Teach-In: 1 – 4 HERE Not A Moment In Time: Zine Issue: 1 – 2 HERE The National Security Police State always uses crisis like this to expand oppression, to expand surveillance, accumulate… Read More »PT 72: Police State and the Criminalization of Gender and Sexuality
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  PT 68: Police State and the Criminalization of Gender and SexualityAugust 1, 2021
  WEBINAR PART 68 Recording Here – Tuesday August 3rd at 6PM Recordings of Webinars 1 – 67 HERE – – Surveillance 101 Teach-In: 1 – 4 HERE Not A Moment In Time: Zine Issue: 1 – 2 HERE The National Security Police State always uses crisis like this to expand oppression, to expand surveillance, accumulate… Read More »PT 68: Police State and the Criminalization of Gender and Sexuality