“Now, Who Are Your People?” Affective Solidarity as a Feminist Tool for Criminological Scholar-Activism

Brianna J. Suslovic, Cameron W. Rasmussen, Crown Family School of Social Work, and Practice, University of Chicago, Thompson School of Social Work, University of Hawai, i at Manoa

Feminist Criminology

Published online on April 10, 2026

Abstract

Feminist Criminology, Ahead of Print.
Affective solidarity is a feminist theory in which solidarity is grounded in emotions, dissonance, and discomfort with injustice rather than a shared identity or a politics of empathy. This article first examines constraints within criminology and the ...