The Women's House of Detention pax arcana Included in this special

Included in this special

With a cast that includes Ronald Reagan

often sharing stages

and has been traveling the world ever since—finding everything but a home

The Women's House of Detention pax arcana Included in this specialThis "crucial" (The Advocate) and "compelling" (BuzzFeed) history of a prison, and the queer women and trans people held there, is a window into the policing of queerness and radical politics in the twentieth century. The Womens House of Detention, a landmark that ushered in the modern era of womens imprisonment, is now largely forgotten. But when it stood in New York Citys Greenwich Village, from 1929 to 1974, it was a nexus for the tens of thousands