COMMUNITY
Research
Feminist Fugitivities in Carceral Los Angeles is a transdisciplinary book manuscript that uses archival research to unmap how space is criminalized through spatial policing technologies such as gang injunctions, anti-encampment zones, and anti-prostitution corridors in Latinx Los Angeles. Using community-centered ethnography to highlight how gendered and racialized communities, such as youth of color, unhoused people, and sex workers, navigate multiple layers of surveillance. Simultaneously, the book centers on creative ways that communities refuse their displacement such as what I term fugitive care webs. These care practices actively challenge the privatization of care and refuse the disposability of community members through relational, material, and informational practices. Feminist Fugitivies also identifies cultural production within gentrifying landscapes that refuse banishment by preserving cultural memory, creating visual disruptions to whitewashing, and establishing forms of placemaking.