For this edition of Ask a Feminist, Amy Farrell talks to Angela P. Harris—Distinguished Professor of Law, Boochever and Bird Endowed Chair for the Study and Teaching of Freedom of Equality, and Director of the Aoki Center for Critical Race and Nation Studies at the University of California Davis—about violence and the consequences of state efforts to control violence through criminalization.This conversation is particularly timely as political dialogue in the United States has shifted dramatically toward “law and order” approaches to solving community problems in the wake of the 2016 presidential election. Professor Harris’s scholarship provides the theoretical underpinning for alternative approaches to violence prevention such as restorative justice. A transcript is available at http://signsjournal.org/ask-a-feminist-harris-farrell/

For this edition of Ask a Feminist, Suzanna Danuta Walters talks to Susan J. Carroll—eminent political theorist and long-time advocate of women’s political participation—about issues around gender and electoral politics. Her expertise and experience is needed now more than ever, as we navigate an increasingly fraught political season and the prospect of our first woman president.