Survivor Injustice: State-Sanctioned Abuse, Domestic Violence, and the Fight for Bodily Autonomy
Kylie Cheung
Aug 2023 · Penguin Random House Audio · Narrated by Dana Wing Lau
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Journalist and Jezebel staff writer Kylie Cheung exposes the insidious--and often unseen--connections among domestic abuse, state-based violence, political disenfranchisement, and the carceral state.
For readers of The Revolution Starts at Home, Feminism for the 99%, and Good and Mad.
Incisive, urgent, and written exactly for our post-Roe times, Survivor Injustice is the feminist frame-changing read we need now--for each of us, and for all that’s at stake.
With an abolitionist lens, journalist and Jezebel staff writer Kylie Cheung shows how domestic abuse and state violence are systemic and interconnected. She shatters the harmful and convenient narrative that abuse is a “private matter” perpetrated by individual bad actors--and situates popular understandings of domestic abuse in an indictment of the racism, misogyny, and carcerality baked into U.S. culture and politics. Cheung explores:
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For readers of The Revolution Starts at Home, Feminism for the 99%, and Good and Mad.
Incisive, urgent, and written exactly for our post-Roe times, Survivor Injustice is the feminist frame-changing read we need now--for each of us, and for all that’s at stake.
With an abolitionist lens, journalist and Jezebel staff writer Kylie Cheung shows how domestic abuse and state violence are systemic and interconnected. She shatters the harmful and convenient narrative that abuse is a “private matter” perpetrated by individual bad actors--and situates popular understandings of domestic abuse in an indictment of the racism, misogyny, and carcerality baked into U.S. culture and politics. Cheung explores:
- The links between capitalism and domestic abuse: how late-stage capitalism colludes with the state to incentivize forced birth and reproductive coercion
- Intimate partner violence as a tool of political silence and social control
- America’s tacit acceptance of sexual assault, from the home to the White House
- The interplay of race, power, gender, and sexuality in state-based violence
- How the United States runs on carcerality, and what that means for victims
- The way we view survival crimes, and our complicity in defining which acts are “violent” and whose actions are “criminal”
- How white feminism and carceral feminism fail us all
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KYLIE CHEUNG is a staff writer at Jezebel, where she reports on gender, power, and identity at the intersections of culture and politics. She was previously a staff writer at the culture desk at Salon, and for six years, she reported on these topics as a freelance writer with bylines in Teen Vogue, Dame Magazine, Bitch Media, Alternet, Wear Your Voice, Feministing, and other publications. Cheung is the author of two prior books of feminist essays, The Gaslit Diaries (2018) and A Woman’s Place (2020). Prior to her journalism career, Cheung worked for and organized with leading reproductive justice organizations, including the National Network of Abortion Funds, Reproaction, and NARAL. She currently lives in Los Angeles with her pit bull-chihuahua, Bucky.
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DANA WING LAU is a multi-hyphenate creator and storyteller. She loves applying her bright voice to YA and MG genres, but can’t wait to narrate more Thriller/Suspense and all things Romance. She loves voicing characters that are complex, resilient, a little messy and who find their inner strength. Dana has two decades worth of creating on stage and screen. As a host and spokesperson, she has an aptitude for bringing facts, medical, and technical jargon to life in a conversational manner. She loves using her voice to bring a compelling point of view to memoir and uses her storytelling ability to hone in on the “why” in non-fiction. As a producer, she focuses her creative work on bringing the stories of marginalized Americans to light. When she is not reading (and listening) to books, Dana is living up to her self-proclaimed “food monster” moniker by baking and feeding people while dancing in her kitchen to 90s and 2000s hip-hop and wrangling her muggle husband.
From TI 9781623179083 TR.
DANA WING LAU is a multi-hyphenate creator and storyteller. She loves applying her bright voice to YA and MG genres, but can’t wait to narrate more Thriller/Suspense and all things Romance. She loves voicing characters that are complex, resilient, a little messy and who find their inner strength. Dana has two decades worth of creating on stage and screen. As a host and spokesperson, she has an aptitude for bringing facts, medical, and technical jargon to life in a conversational manner. She loves using her voice to bring a compelling point of view to memoir and uses her storytelling ability to hone in on the “why” in non-fiction. As a producer, she focuses her creative work on bringing the stories of marginalized Americans to light. When she is not reading (and listening) to books, Dana is living up to her self-proclaimed “food monster” moniker by baking and feeding people while dancing in her kitchen to 90s and 2000s hip-hop and wrangling her muggle husband.
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