Alisa Bierria

Alisa Bierria is Assistant Professor in the Department of Gender Studies at UCLA. A Black feminist philosopher, Bierria’s forthcoming book, Inconceivable Agency: Race, Gender Violence, & the Carceral Imagination, explores how intention is imagined and invented within structures of anti-Black racism, carceral reasoning, and gendered violence. Alisa co-edited the two volume collection, Abolition Feminisms (Haymarket, 2022) and a special issue of the journal Social Justice entitled, “Community Accountability: Emerging Movements to Transform Violence” (2010). Her writing has been published in American Quarterly, Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy, American Philosophical Quarterly, Feminist Philosophical Quarterly, Journal of Social Philosophy, as well as in numerous scholarly volumes, public anthologies, and op-eds. An advocate within the feminist anti-violence movement for over twenty-five years, Bierria is co-founder of Survived & Punished, a grassroots organization which leads research, policy, and advocacy projects to end the criminalization of survivors of domestic and sexual violence.