Building Black Feminist Visions to - A framework for building a transnational Black feminist agenda

Drug policy and enforcement have also fueled family policing and separation, immigration detention and deportation, and denial of benefits, education, housing, employment, and protection from violence for Black, Indigenous, and migrant women and trans people Mainstream conversations, advocacy, of color, who already experience the highest rates of and organizing aimed at addressing the poverty and. [...] and drug prohibition] are predicated on Black women are subjected to discriminatory prenatal the same objectives and principles, the and parental drug testing, and policed according to suppression and subjugation of difference, ideals of normative parenthood by non-drug using, the control of bodies, limitations on personal straight, white, abled, middle-class nuclear families. [...] have to address this globally.” This framework is intended as a contribution to these and ongoing efforts to articulate and advance — Andrea James, Executive Director, a transnational Black feminist agenda to end the National Council of Incarcerated and drug war rooted in the experiences, resistance, and Formerly Incarcerated Women and Girls dreams of Black women, girls, and trans and gender nonco. [...] • Denial of access to necessary pain, abortion and gender-affirming care medications 5 Building Black Feminist Visions to End the Drug War Key Elements of a Black Feminist Framework to End the Drug War A commitment to dismantling all structures and systems of oppression shaping conditions of possibility for Black women, trans, and nonbinary people Black feminist frameworks are rooted in: • Black w. [...] Starting from the experiences of most exposed to different forms Black women, trans and non-binary people of oppression and most impacted helps us understand: • the extent and depth of the web of by the harms understand best criminalization of people who use drugs in all institutions of society, from how to dismantle them and are the family to the state • that the drug war perpetrates sexual close.