Watching @annajcarlson & Marissa Dooris speaking on carceral feminism and 'discourses of protection' in debates on criminalisation of coercive control at #AWGSA21
.@annajcarlson & MD speak that approaches to criminalising coercive control have been subject to extensive critique, but despite this critique, advocacy by carceral feminists have had dividends - ie law reform
.@annajcarlson & MD - their work centres accounts and theorising of First Nations women... any meaningful response to coercial control must begin with recognition that coercive control and its agents are perpetrators, not "protectors".
.@annajcarlson & MD: discourses of protection have long been a way of 'managing' and legitimizing colonial racist violence.
.@annajcarlson: speaks of her research into Meston in the Protection era in Qld - Meston's anxieties were framed in protecting Aboriginal women from sexual violence, but his solution was on isolating or excluding black women. Controlling Aboriginal women under guise of protection
... In present, these discourses of protection are still utilised to legitimise racial control: @annajcarlson. Speaks of the intervention as the obvious example.
... @annajcarlson: for many carceral white feminist, the failure to account for the criminalising affects of intervention means missing centrality of race in DV policy...
... it is through paying attention to race, do we see the state's role in protecting particular people in particular ways: @annajcarlson
@annajcarlson and MD speak of how different the debate would be if the debate started from centring experiences of ABoriginal women and trans, non-binary people
cites case of Ms Dhu - "we see state's complicity in her death, even as on the other side of country white feminists responded to Rosie Batty's grief through expansion of carceral state"
MD: we can see political work that protection does from mission to prison through looking at intersections of race, gender and class
..@annajcarlson: cites Larissa Behrendt on white innocence and white female vulnerability in policing Aboriginal communities. Speaks of vulnerable white women deserving of state protection being used to fuel white supremacist violence
MD speaks of more nuanced way that white women participate in state protection - for eg - advancement groups for white women utilised white purity to gain advacnement over other women.
.@annajcarlson speaks of how back then - in the 30s there were proposals for women to be in protection roles rather than men
.@annajcarlson - at aboriginal welfare conference in 1937 - there was a question posed 'should white women be protectors'. There were extensive roles white women played in these protection regimes.
MD: white women were involved in expansion of colonial control on black women and children -
@annajcarlson dynamics of white women seeking empowerment through control of Aboriginal women are already well theorised by Aboriginal women - cites Jackie huggins.
.MD - we hear echoes of white women's protection through women's police stations and criminalising coercive control. Critiques Jess hill's work; there is little to no meaningful interrogation of state control and patriarchal violence
@annajcarlson for us - we are obviously concerned with obvious reality of patriarchal violence, but we are equally concnerned by erasure of white supremacy, racism around convos of state control of gendered violence
MD: agents of carceral state; police, DOCS, researchers to produce evidence base for regimes are key perpetrators of violence, and even coercive control, against Aboriginal women, trans and non-binary people.
This is such an important presentation - so blessed to hear from Marissa and Anna on this 
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