Why Would Feminists Trust the Police?

Leah Cowan is a writer and editor. She is the former Politics Editor at gal-dem, an online magazine and media platform run by women and non-binary people of colour. Leah also works at Project 17, an advice centre for migrant families who have No Recourse to Public Funds and are facing homelessness and destitution. Leah has written for publications including Vice UK, Huck, DOPE magazine, and the Guardian and in 2018 delivered a TEDxTalk presenting an intersectional analysis of emotional labour. Leah speaks and lectures, including for UN Women, in the House of Commons, at the Trades Union Congress, and at Queen Mary University of London. Her first book, BORDER NATION, breaking down the borders of migration, was published in 2021.

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction: Why Would Feminists Trust the Police?1. False Histories in the Shadow of the Empire2. A Symphony of Order and Chaos3. The 'Sectorification' of Radical Struggle4. Feminisms of Fear and Resistance in the New Millennium5. Defund, Abolish, NowFurther ReadingNotesIndex

An urgent call to dismantle carceral feminism rooted in a powerful historical analysis that centers the lived experiences and movements of those left out of mainstream feminism.