#MeTooBehindBars
“#MeTooBehindBars is a movement to expose and end gender-based violence against trans, gender nonconforming, and queer people in jails, prisons, and detention centers. This movement is rooted in the premise that in order to end sexual violence we must also end prisons.”
BIO
#MeTooBehindBars is a campaign to expose and end gender-based violence against trans, gender non-conforming, and queer people inside California prisons. The campaign began following a lawsuit was filed against the CDCR by four plaintiffs who, at the time, were incarcerated at the Central California Women’s Facility. The plaintiffs all identify as transgender, gender non-conforming or queer. The M2BB lawsuit and broader campaign aims to recognize these assaults as part of a larger pattern of excessive force by prison staff targeting gender and sexual deviance, and prisons themselves as a form of gender-based and sexual violence. It also aims to create a platform for currently and formerly incarcerated people to connect and respond to this type of violence.
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