Kay Whitlock

Kay Whitlock is a Montana-based writer and organizer whose current work focuses on dismantling structural violence and injustice in law enforcement and other public institutions. She is co-author (with Joey L. Mogul and Andrea J. Ritchie) of Queer (In)Justice: The Criminalization of LGBT People in the United States (2011), which won a 2011 National Council on Crime and Delinquency PASS (Prevention for a Safer Society) Award. Kay wrote a series of LGBT Justice Visions working papers for the American Friends Service Committee, addressing the violence of the criminal legal system, mass incarceration, and the prison industrial complex—most notably, “In a Time of Broken Bones: A Call to Dialogue on Hate Violence and the Limitations of Hate Crimes Legislation” (2001). Her writing has appeared in a number of journals and anthologies. She is a contributing editor for the Criminal Injustice series on the Critical Mass Progress blog.