Laura Mctighe
Biographic Data
| ID | 131971 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Laura Mctighe |
| GIVEN NAMES | Laura |
| FAMILY NAME | Mctighe |
| SIGNATURE | MCTIGHE L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Florida State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0308-3027 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 29 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Our Relationships Carry the Movement
The radical HIV prison activist movement has always been, in practice, an abolitionist movement. Set in Philadelphia in the early 2000s, this article centers the relationships through which leaders of ACT UP Philadelphia, the Philadelphia County Coalition for Prison Health Care, TEACH Outside, and Project UNSHACKLE worked to transform the social conditions for which prisons have been posited as the solution and to create a prison-free future in r…
Theory on the Ground: Ethnography, Religio-Racial Study, and the Spiritual Work of Building Otherwise
We should be able to live and thrive, not just survive.” With these words, the Black feminist leaders of Women With A Vision (WWAV) in New Orleans refuse the religious and racist terror of post-Hurricane Katrina recovery—and theorize beyond the lethal logics that set their organizing home ablaze in a still-uninvestigated arson attack. This article approaches WWAV’s gauntlet as “theory on the ground”: theory developed in the midst of lived struggl…
The Ground on Which We Stand: Making Abolition
Abolition is both a vision and a practice. As abolitionists, we envision a world without prisons. We must also make that world together. Abolition is thus more than an ideological commitment to the absence of prisons. Abolition is presence, as Ruth Wilson Gilmore reminds us. It is the presence of life-giving institutions. It is our presence with one another, as we enact and explore in this article. As co-authors, we have been journeying together …
To Instill Love for My People: Reassembling the Social in a Time of Mass Criminalization
To Instill Love for My People: Reassembling the Social in a Time of Mass Criminalization Laura McTighe and Reverend Doris J. Green People are more than the shackles that bind them; this is the truth of Exodus narratives. During the Great Migration, seven million people traded the southern landscape for the northern Promised Land. Today, more than seven million people are imprisoned, on probation, or on parole. The continuities between slavery and…
Front Porch Revolution: Resilience Space, Demonic Grounds, and the Horizons of a Black Feminist Otherwise
Grounded in eighteen months of fieldwork and a decade of engaged partnership at Women With A Vision (WWAV)-a black women's health and social justice collective founded in 1989-this article explores the remaking of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina from the perspective of black feminist social life. By peeling back the histories of violence and struggle surrounding the storm, it reckons with what it means to build home and vision amid the everyd…
There Is NO Justice in Louisiana: Crimes against Nature and the Spirit of Black Feminist Resistance
In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, the leaders of the quarter-century-old Women With A Vision (WWAV) collective launched a coordinated campaign to expose and challenge the criminalization of Black cisgender and transgender women working in New Orleans' street-based economies. For the simple act of trading sex for money to survive, hundreds were convicted of a felony-level Crime Against Nature by Solicitation (CANS) and forced to register as sex of…
Front Porch Revolution: Resilience Space, Demonic Grounds, and the Horizons of a Black Feminist Otherwise
Grounded in eighteen months of fieldwork and a decade of engaged partnership at Women With A Vision (WWAV)-a black women's health and social justice collective founded in 1989-this article explores the remaking of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina from the perspective of black feminist social life. By peeling back the histories of violence and struggle surrounding the storm, it reckons with what it means to build home and vision amid the everyd…
Theory on the Ground: Ethnography, Religio-Racial Study, and the Spiritual Work of Building Otherwise
We should be able to live and thrive, not just survive.” With these words, the Black feminist leaders of Women With A Vision (WWAV) in New Orleans refuse the religious and racist terror of post-Hurricane Katrina recovery—and theorize beyond the lethal logics that set their organizing home ablaze in a still-uninvestigated arson attack. This article approaches WWAV’s gauntlet as “theory on the ground”: theory developed in the midst of lived struggl…
The Ground on Which We Stand: Making Abolition
Abolition is both a vision and a practice. As abolitionists, we envision a world without prisons. We must also make that world together. Abolition is thus more than an ideological commitment to the absence of prisons. Abolition is presence, as Ruth Wilson Gilmore reminds us. It is the presence of life-giving institutions. It is our presence with one another, as we enact and explore in this article. As co-authors, we have been journeying together …
There Is NO Justice in Louisiana: Crimes against Nature and the Spirit of Black Feminist Resistance
In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, the leaders of the quarter-century-old Women With A Vision (WWAV) collective launched a coordinated campaign to expose and challenge the criminalization of Black cisgender and transgender women working in New Orleans' street-based economies. For the simple act of trading sex for money to survive, hundreds were convicted of a felony-level Crime Against Nature by Solicitation (CANS) and forced to register as sex of…
Our Relationships Carry the Movement
The radical HIV prison activist movement has always been, in practice, an abolitionist movement. Set in Philadelphia in the early 2000s, this article centers the relationships through which leaders of ACT UP Philadelphia, the Philadelphia County Coalition for Prison Health Care, TEACH Outside, and Project UNSHACKLE worked to transform the social conditions for which prisons have been posited as the solution and to create a prison-free future in r…
There Is NO Justice in Louisiana: Crimes against Nature and the Spirit of Black Feminist Resistance
In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, the leaders of the quarter-century-old Women With A Vision (WWAV) collective launched a coordinated campaign to expose and challenge the criminalization of Black cisgender and transgender women working in New Orleans' street-based economies. For the simple act of trading sex for money to survive, hundreds were convicted of a felony-level Crime Against Nature by Solicitation (CANS) and forced to register as sex of…
To Instill Love for My People: Reassembling the Social in a Time of Mass Criminalization
To Instill Love for My People: Reassembling the Social in a Time of Mass Criminalization Laura McTighe and Reverend Doris J. Green People are more than the shackles that bind them; this is the truth of Exodus narratives. During the Great Migration, seven million people traded the southern landscape for the northern Promised Land. Today, more than seven million people are imprisoned, on probation, or on parole. The continuities between slavery and…
Front Porch Revolution: Resilience Space, Demonic Grounds, and the Horizons of a Black Feminist Otherwise
Grounded in eighteen months of fieldwork and a decade of engaged partnership at Women With A Vision (WWAV)-a black women's health and social justice collective founded in 1989-this article explores the remaking of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina from the perspective of black feminist social life. By peeling back the histories of violence and struggle surrounding the storm, it reckons with what it means to build home and vision amid the everyd…
Theory on the Ground: Ethnography, Religio-Racial Study, and the Spiritual Work of Building Otherwise
We should be able to live and thrive, not just survive.” With these words, the Black feminist leaders of Women With A Vision (WWAV) in New Orleans refuse the religious and racist terror of post-Hurricane Katrina recovery—and theorize beyond the lethal logics that set their organizing home ablaze in a still-uninvestigated arson attack. This article approaches WWAV’s gauntlet as “theory on the ground”: theory developed in the midst of lived struggl…
The Ground on Which We Stand: Making Abolition
Abolition is both a vision and a practice. As abolitionists, we envision a world without prisons. We must also make that world together. Abolition is thus more than an ideological commitment to the absence of prisons. Abolition is presence, as Ruth Wilson Gilmore reminds us. It is the presence of life-giving institutions. It is our presence with one another, as we enact and explore in this article. As co-authors, we have been journeying together …
Our Relationships Carry the Movement
The radical HIV prison activist movement has always been, in practice, an abolitionist movement. Set in Philadelphia in the early 2000s, this article centers the relationships through which leaders of ACT UP Philadelphia, the Philadelphia County Coalition for Prison Health Care, TEACH Outside, and Project UNSHACKLE worked to transform the social conditions for which prisons have been posited as the solution and to create a prison-free future in r…
Sociology (5 works) · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (4 works) · Criminology (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Criminalization (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works)