Other Writing — E R Meiners

Recent Articles

2023 – “Data and liberation.”Inquest

2022 – “Abolitionist organizing: Brick by brick, book by book.”PEN American/Study & Struggle

2022 – “As governments push us back to normal don’t forget about prison conditions.”Truthout

2021 – “Looking to get cops off your campus – start here.”Truthout

2020 – “Abolition is not merely a demand but a long term struggle.”Truthout

2016 – “How risk assessment tools are condemning people to indefinite imprisonment.”Truthout

2016 – “We’re rethinking prisons. Is it time to rethink sex offender registries?”In These Times

Recent Scholarly Articles

2025 – Shana Agid, Melissa Burch, Priya Kandaswamy, Erica Meiners, Setsu Shigematsu, Dylan Rodriguez. “Abolition In/From the University?” American Quarterly.

2025 – Erin Cloud, Erica Meiners, Shannon Perez Darby, Charity Tolliver.
“Notes for Educators: Ending the Family Policing System.” Theory, Research and Action in Urban Education (Vol 9, Issue 1, #49)

2023 – Erica Meiners. “Unfree Associations: Entanglements with Guards.” Social Justice: A Journal of Crime, Conflict & World Order. (49 (1)2)

2023 – Priya Kandaswamy, Erica Meiners. “A Conversation on Abolition and Pedagogy.”
Journal of Higher Education in Prison. (Vol 2)

2022 – Jose Luis Benavides, Matthew Yasuoka, Therese Quinn, Erica R. Meiners (Illinois Death in Custody Project). “Shelter/ in / place.” Visual Arts Research (special issue on surveillance).

2022 – Angela Davis, Gina Dent, Erica Meiners, Beth Richie. “Short takes: Abolition.”
Signs: Journal of Women and Culture in Society.

2022 – Sheeva Sabati, Farima Pour‑Khorshid, Erica R. Meiners, Chrissy Hernandez.
“Dismantle, Change, Build: Lessons for Growing Abolition in Teacher Education.”
Teachers College Review .

2021 – Erica Meiners. “Building Abolition in a Pandemic: Feminism, Foucault and Beyond.” Syndicate

2021 – D. Maldanado, Erica R. Meiners. “Due time: Meditations on abolition at the site of the university.” Social Text, (39 (1): 69‑92).

2020 – Matthew Yasuoka, Therese Quinn, Erica R. Meiners.
“Pushing the Prison Doors Open: Snail Mail and the Resistance of the Postal System.”
Journal of Postal History.

2020 – Laurie Fuller, Erica R. Meiners. “Sick & Tired.” GLQ: Gay and Lesbian Quarterly.

2019 – Erica Meiners, Therese Quinn. “Forum: Defiant Memory Work.” American Quarterly, (Vol 71, No 2).

2018 – Therese Quinn, Erica R. Meiners. “Queer kinks and the arc of justice: meditations on failure, persistence, and public education.” Critical Military Studies.

2017 – Chrissy Anderson‑Zavala, Farima Pour‑Khorshid, Patricia Krueger Henney, Erica R. Meiners. “Fierce Urgency of Now: Building Movements to End the Prison Industrial Complex in Our Schools.” Multicultural Perspectives, (19 (3): 1‑5). Reprinted in Lessons in Liberation: An abolitionist toolkit for educators (2021, Oakland, AK Press) and Planning to Change the World: Teacher Planbook, Education for Liberation (2019, 2021)

2017 – Erica Meiners. “The problem child: Provocations toward dismantling the carceral state.” Harvard Educational Review, (87 (1): 122‑146). Reprint/translation: “L’enfant à problèmes …” in Politiser l’enfance (2023, 2025 éditions Burn‑Août).

2017 – Erica Meiners. “Gendered movement: Negotiating youth, sex and harm in the US carceral state.” Children & Society, (31 (3): 231‑242).

2016 – Erica Meiners, Charity Tolliver. “Refusing to be Complicit: Teachers Rethinking Mandated Reporting.” Radical Teacher (Special issue Teaching #BLM) (106: 104‑116).

2016 – Gillian Harkins, Erica R. Meiners. “Teaching Publics in the American Penalscape.”
American Quarterly, (68 (2).

2016 – Erica Meiners, Therese Quinn. “Feeling Like a Movement: Visual Cultures of Educational Resistance.” Workplace: A Journal for Academic Labor (2015 special issue) –

2016 – Owen Daniels‑McCarter, Erica Meiners, Ray Noll. “Queer Disavowals: Controversial crimes and building abolition.” PhiloSOPHIA (6 (1); Reprinted: “Roundtable: Offending Queers.” in D. Halpernin (ed.), Sex/Justice (Duke University Press, 2016)

2015 – Gillian Harkins, Erica R. Meiners. Conversation. Policy People. (Jan van Eyck Academie, Netherlands).

2015 – Erica Meiners. “Offending Children/Registering Sex.” Women’s Studies Quarterly – (43 (1 & 2): 246‑263)

2015 – Erica Meiners. “Trouble with the Child in the Carceral State.” Social Justice: A Journal of Crime Conflict and World Order – (41 (3))

2014 – George Frison FATS, William Jones, Erica R. Meiners, James Piggues, Sarah Ross, Johnny Taylor, Devon Terrell, Fereshteh Toosi, Alan White.
“Due Time: A Glossary.” SCAPEGOAT: Architecture | Landscape | Political Economy – (Issue 7)

2014 – Gillian Harkins, Erica R. Meiners. “Beyond Crisis: College in Prison through the Abolition Undercommons.” Lateral (Journal of the Cultural Studies Association) – (Theory Issue 3)

2014 – J. Lawston, Erica R. Meiners. “Ending Our Expertise: Feminisms, Abolition and Scholarship.” Feminist Formations – (26 (2): 1‑25)

2013 – Therese Quinn, Erica R. Meiners. “From Anti‑Bullying Laws and Marriage to Queer Worlds and Just Futures.” QED: Journal of LGBTQ World Making (inaugural issue)

2011 – Erica Meiners, L. Michaud, J. Pavan, B. Simpson. “‘Worst of the worst’? Queer investments in challenging sex offender registries in Canada and in the U.S.” Upping the Anti – (13: 91‑106)

Reprinted: R. Conrad (ed.), Against Equality: Prisons Will Not Protect You (2012) & Reprinted: R. Conrad (ed.), Against Equality: Queer Revolution, Not Mere Inclusion (2014)

2011 – Erica Meiners. “Ending the school‑to‑prison pipeline/Building abolition futures.” Urban Review – (43 (4): 547‑565)

2011 – B. Galaviz, J. Palafox, Erica Meiners, T. Quinn. “The Militarization and the Privatization of Public Schools.” The Berkeley Review of Education – (2 (1): 27‑45)

2011 – J. Jackson, Erica Meiners. “Fear and Loathing: The Challenge of Feelings in Anti‑Prison Organizing.” Women’s Studies Quarterly – (39 (1 & 2): 268‑288)

2011 – Erica Meiners, T. Quinn. “Militarism and education normal?”Monthly Review – (63 (3): 77‑86)

2011 – D. Diaz, C. Gómez, C. Luna‑Duarte, Erica Meiners. “Purged: Undocumented Students, Financial Aid Policies, and Access to Higher Education.” Journal of Hispanic Higher Education – (10: 107‑119)

2010 (Apr) – D. Diaz, C. Gómez, C. Luna‑Duarte, Erica Meiners, L. Valentin.
“Organizing tensions: From the prison to the military industrial complex.”
Social Justice: A Journal of Crime Conflict and World Order (Special Issue Policing, Detention, Deportation and Resistance) – (36 (2): 73‑84)

2010 (May/Jun) – D. Diaz, C. Gómez, C. Luna‑Duarte, Erica Meiners, L. Valentin.
“Dreams Deferred.” Academe

2009 – Erica Meiners. “Never Innocent: Feminist Trouble with Sex Offender Registries and Protection in a Prison Nation.” Meridians: Feminisms, Race, Transnationalism – (9 (2): 31‑62)

Select Book Chapters

2025 | Introduction from Abolition. Feminism. Now. | Angela Davis, Erica Meiners, Gina Dent, Beth Richie | Editors: Colin Kaepernick, Robin D. G. Kelley, Keeanga‑Yamahtta Taylor | Our History Has Always Been Contraband: In Defense of Black Studies | Haymarket Press | 

2020 | Illinois Deaths in Custody Project: Eulogization and Freedom of Information in the Carceral State. |J. Benavides, Erica Meiners, S. Padilla, T. Quinn, M. Yasuoka | Editor: O. Guntarik | From Sit‑Ins to #Revolutions: The Changing Nature of Protests| Bloomsbury | 

2016 | Seneca Falls, Selma, Stonewall: Moving Beyond Equality in LGBTQ School Justice Work. | Erica R. Meiners, Therese Quinn | Editor: Annika Butler‑Wall, Kim Cosier, Rachel Harper, Jeff Sapp, Jody Sokolower, Melissa Bollow Tempel | Rethinking Sexism, Gender, and Sexuality | Rethinking Schools Publishing | 

2010 | Building an Abolition Democracy; or, The Fight Against Public Fears, Private Benefits, and Prison Expansion. | Erica Meiners | Editor: S. J. Hartnett | Education or Incarceration? Reclaiming Hope and Justice in a Punishing Democracy | University of Illinois Press | 

2010 | Feeling Like a Failure: Teaching/Learning Abolition Through The Good, the Bad and The Innocent| Jessi Jackson, Erica Meiners |  Radical Teacher (Special Issue on Teaching the prison industrial complex) | Radical Teacher | Reprinted: Editors: Catherine Orr, Anne Braithwaite | Rethinking Women’s and Gender Studies | Routledge | London | 2022 |2nd Edition || 2024 | 