The New York Women’s House of Detention was a women’s prison located in Manhattan that existed from 1932 to 1974. During this time, Andrea Dworkin, Afeni Shakur, and Angela Davis (respectively from left to right on the first slide) were all incarcerated in the House of D. While some of its inmates were well-known, most were incarcerated for the crimes of being poor and improperly feminine. This trend continues today, with 40% of people incarcerated in women’s prisons identifying as queer. In this book, historian Hugh Ryan traces the history of the largely forgotten prison and the people who moved through its walls. Ryan’s analysis demonstrates that by queering Greenwich Village (the prison was located just a few blocks from Stonewall Inn), the House of D influenced the definition of queerness across America. Ryan’s coverage and analysis of the House of Detention makes a uniquely queer case for abolition. This book does lean more historical than theoretical, but Ryan does a good job of connecting events that happened in the House of D to the larger tenets of abolition. This was a great read, and I highly recommend it for any queer folks looking to read more non-fiction!