Gina Dent is an associate professor of Feminist Studies at UC Santa Cruz.

She is associate dean of diversity, equity, and inclusion for the Humanities Division at UC Santa Cruz.

[6] Her research interests include Africana studies, legal theory, and popular culture.

books, Prison as a Border and Other Essays and Anchored to the Real: Black Literature in the Wake of Anthropology, which will be published by Duke University Press.

with Angela Davis, Erica Meiners, and Beth Richie, which argues for a prison abolitionist vision of feminism.