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Queer Switchboard is a storytelling project co-created with—and centering the lived experiences of—currently and formerly incarcerated queer, trans, nonbinary, and gender non-conforming people. Working with members of Alliances, a trans and queer community support group at Monroe Correctional Complex in Washington State, incarcerated participants shape and direct our work through creative workshops and oral history-based storytelling sessions. Recognizing and building upon the critical insights and theoretical frameworks developed by queer and trans scholars, activists, and creatives impacted by the justice system, we rely on incarcerated queer and trans people's experiential knowledge as a vital form of knowing that builds upon and extends academic and creative work on carceral systems, gender self-determination, and mutual aid networks.

Drawing on the legacy of telephone switchboards in trans/queer activism and mutual aid, our interactions with justice impacted people create networks of understanding and support.

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