About Lamble

I am a writer, educator, and community organiser focused on queer, feminist, trans, and anti-carceral / abolitionist politics.

My work is shaped by experience in frontline organising around anti-violence, anti-poverty, and prisoner justice advocacy. I’m particularly interested in how grassroots communities resist state violence and build transformative and collective forms of care, safety, and accountability.

I’m an organiser with the Bent Bars Project, which is a letter-writing / penpal scheme for LGBTQ+ prisoners in the UK. I was also involved in setting up Abolitionist Futures, which builds education and resources around alternatives to prisons, policing, punishment, and surveillance in Britain and Ireland.

Having grown up in southern Ontario, Canada, I now live and work in London, UK, where I teach criminology, law, gender, and sexuality studies at Birkbeck, University of London.

A note about my name and pronouns:

In academic contexts and for publishing purposes, I use my full name, Sarah Lamble, but I generally prefer to be called Lamble. I mostly use they/them pronouns, but she/her is also fine.