Pink Crime

Fighting Against the Criminalization of Motherhood, Pregnancy, and Queer Identity

When your identity is the crime, innocence is no defense

Beety . fills important gaps in our conversation around the criminal justice system and innocence. Jen Marlowe, author of I Am Troy Davis

A woman miscarriesand is charged with murder. A new mother tests positive for a drug her hospital administeredand loses custody of her newborn. Four women are convicted of horrific crimes against children they never touched, based on junk science and homophobiaand spend nearly twenty years in prison before being exonerated. A queer teenager takes a photo of a childs diaper rash at workand is sentenced to 126 years. These cases are not aberrations. They are symptoms of a system that punishes women and queer people not for what they have done, but for who they are.

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