Genere, razza, classe e deistituzionalizzazione: una riflessione per un'educazione intersezionale nei contesti di reclusione

In prison, conditions of detention are deeply shaped by structural differences related to gender, race, and class. Trans individuals, women, racialized people, and those from marginalized socioeconomic backgrounds experience systematic forms of marginalization, often ignored or naturalized even within educational institutions. In the face of these inequalities, it becomes urgent to interrogate the role of education and to imagine pedagogical practices capable of recognizing and transforming oppressive dynamics. This contribution proposes a reflection on an intersectional and decolonial approach to prison education, one that challenges the norms, stereotypes, and hierarchies embedded in dominant educational models. Such a perspective is rooted in a de-institutionalizing tension: to educate in prison is not only to offer opportunities, but to question the very structures of power that legitimize the existence of incarceration itself. In this sense, education can become a tool to imagine models of transformative justice, collective care, and the redistribution of opportunities.