Gina Dent

Gina Dent (born 1966) is an American associate professor of Feminist Studies at UC Santa Cruz. She is associate dean of diversity, equity, and inclusion for the Humanities Division at UC Santa Cruz. She co-authored the 2022 book Abolition. Feminism. Now. with her partner, Angela Davis; Erica Meiners; and Beth Richie.

Education Dent received her B.A. in Comparative Literature from the University of California, Berkeley,

Her research interests include Africana studies, legal theory, and popular culture. She is the editor of Black Popular Culture (1992). In 2011, Dent served in a delegation to Palestine, and she advocates for human rights in the region. She is sought-after internationally as a speaker and educator on Black Feminism and abolitionism.

She has two forthcoming books, Prison as a Border and Other Essays and Anchored to the Real: Black Literature in the Wake of Anthropology, which will be published by Duke University Press. Dent co-authored the 2022 book Abolition. Feminism. Now.with Angela Davis, Erica Meiners, and Beth Richie, which argues for a prison abolitionist vision of feminism.

Personal life , Dent was living with her partner, feminist scholar and activist Angela Y. Davis. Together, they have advocated for the abolition of police and prisons, using the concept of abolition feminism.