Raquel Delerme

The Hidden Costs of Mothering an Incarcerated Adult Child NEW BLOG | THE HIDDEN COSTS OF MOTHERING AN INCARCERATED ADULT CHILD Raquel Delerme draws on in-depth interviews with mothers with incarcerated adult children, finding the cumulative impact of fina…

Check out my new blog post about my article in #Gender&Society on mothers with incarcerated adult children and their engagement with what i term the carceral care economy. gendersociety.wordpress.com/2025/06/25/t...

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This spring my colleague Rachel and I will teach for the 3rd time out gender studies class at a women’s prison. We would appreciate any donations to provide folders, notebooks, and pens for our incarcerated students. To support them, venmo Rachel at Rachel-Leah. Many thanks!

We study mass surveillance for social control, and we see Trump laying the groundwork to ‘contain’ people of color and immigrants Create a moral panic. Blame it on certain people. Commence monitoring. Deploy droves of security agents. Detain or remove the targets. Sound familiar?

Mass #surveillance in the US has historically targeted racial and ethnic minorities. Experts warn this pattern could intensify under a second Trump term, with a focus on people of color and immigrants.
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Which stage of the grieving process is when you become obsessed with all of the things your loved one once loved? I am chasing the ghost of my father over here with his favorite things which I resisted when he was alive - jazz vinyls, watches, various conspiracy theories even!

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NEW! Read @raqueldelerme.bsky.social's review of 'Prisons of Debt: The Afterlives of Incarcerated Fathers' by Lynne Haney. Part of #TheoreticalCrim's 2024 Special Issue, guest-edited by Gabriela Kirk-Werner, @curlyprofessor.bsky.social & April D. Fernandes: journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Today I successfully defended my dissertation prospectus! Much gratitude to my incredibly insightful committee. Excited to get to work!

Renowned poet and Black arts movement icon Nikki Giovanni dies at 81 The poet and activist was a leading figure of the Black Arts Movement. Giovanni was working on her upcoming book of poetry, set to publish in the fall.

"We will forever be grateful for the unconditional time she gave to us, to all her literary children across the writerly world," said Kwame Alexander in the statement on the renowned Nikki Giovanni’s death

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