So happy to be home! I want to thank everyone for the many years of love and support. I hope to connect with all of you in person soon!

So excited to launch this veery important project. Please share and follow @the-work-and-us.bsky.social

the-work-and-us.bsky.social@the-work-and-us.bsky.social · 5mo ago

We're excited to launch our incarcerated research fellowship! 🎉

 To learn more and to download the application, visit tinyurl.com/twusfellowship.

 If you know someone incarcerated who might be interested in applying, DM us with their mailing address and we'll send them the application!

the-work-and-us.bsky.social@the-work-and-us.bsky.social · 5mo ago

We're excited to launch our incarcerated research fellowship! 🎉

 To learn more and to download the application, visit tinyurl.com/twusfellowship.

 If you know someone incarcerated who might be interested in applying, DM us with their mailing address and we'll send them the application!

“Trump is sharply and rapidly intensifying the U.S. state’s long and bipartisan history of abduction and caging, deploying these powerful, incredibly well-resourced instruments of repression for overtly fascist ends.” — @mskellymhayes.bsky.social and @mayaschenwar.bsky.social

Faith in checks and balances stems from an even more dangerous faith in law and order.

Kelly Hayes and Maya Schenwar respond to Lisa L. Miller’s “The Dead End of Checks and Balances.”

bostonreview.net

Gramsci translated by @alfatau.bsky.social

I Hate New Year's Day - Viewpoint Magazine

That's why I hate New Year's. I want every morning to be a new year's for me. Every day I want to reckon with myself, and every day I want to renew myself. No day set aside for rest. I choose my pause...

viewpointmag.com

I helped found @the-work-and-us.bsky.social in 2021. After a little hiatus, we are officially relaunching the project and are expanding our work to include an Incarcerated Research Fellowship. Because we believe that people inside are experts of their own experiences.

I was honored to be interviewed in the recent edition of The Scholar & Feminist Online. You can read the full interview "Collectivizing Care and Making Kin as Abolitionist Practice" here sfonline.barnard.edu/collectivizi...

Incarcerated writer Kwaneta Harris says solitary confinement keeps no one safe. “The answer isn’t throwing them in a concrete box for years; it’s trauma-informed care, therapeutic communities, meditation programs, restorative justice practices.”

“Designed to Break You:” Two Incarcerated Writers on the Heavy Toll of Solitary Confinement

The authors of a new book on solitary answer your questions about their experiences with isolation and the movement to end the torturous practice.

boltsmag.org

As temperatures drop outside, just a reminder that extreme cold is also a problem for people inside. A lot of prisons are old and drafty, and items like winter boots or heavy blankets aren't available. As climate patterns change, this will only get worse. prisonjournalismproject.org/2025/02/25/e...

What Extreme Cold Feels Like in Prison

Prison writers from across the U.S. describe how cold their prisons get in the winter — and what small dignities could make it more bearable.

prisonjournalismproject.org

The Department of Justice plans to dismantle protections for trans and intersex people in federal, state, and local prisons, jails, and youth detention facilities, according to a government memo obtained by Prism.

Guess who's coming home?! After over 15 years inside, I will be released in early February and look forward to being with my family and friends. I accomplished more than I could have dreamed while imprisoned. Imagine what I'll do when I'm free.

For #BannedBooksWeek, we’re highlighting the unjust censorship of political books which impacts countless incarcerated readers each year. For every book purchased from this reading list, we will be sending a book to someone who is incarcerated.

Books Are For Everyone: A Banned Books Week Reading List

Banned Books Week—October 5th to 11th—is an annual celebration of the freedom to read, and the aspiration that books should be accessible to all. In recognition of Banned Books Week 2025, Haymarket is...

haymarketbooks.org

Rest in power Assata.

Kim Kelly@kimkelly.bsky.social · 10mo ago

It is our duty to fight for our freedom. It is our duty to win. We must love each other and support each other. We have nothing to lose but our chains.

I was grateful to be a part of Critical Resistance’s Cross-wall & Power Building Retreat during Black August. Check out recordings from the retreat, including my remarks on censorship, repression, and accountability to inside organizers criticalresistance.org/prisoner-spe...

Tuesday at noon ET (US), 9 AM PT we'll be live again with @dylanrodriguez.bsky.social to talk about T. Hoxha's hunger strike, Casey Goonan's solidarity hunger strike, defending direct action, Pro-Palestine political prisoners in the imperial core and more! www.youtube.com/live/GYXM0DU...

T. Hoxha enters day 18 of her hunger strike. Calla Walsh has written about it, how fellow captive Casey Goonan joined in solitary, and how we must honor the slogan, "Our prisoners are our compass." Read: calla.substack.com/p/casey-hoxha Demand Hoxha's hospitalization: tinyurl.com/FREETHOXHA

The BPP held an entire anti-fascist conference in Oakland in the late 60s. People are over half a century behind on the realities of what they were saying about fascism in the USA, but it also speaks to how severely their politics were suppressed.

Chantal James@chantalalive.blacksky.app · 12mo ago

The Black Panthers were accurately describing the US as fascist in the 60s. That's how far behind you are if a dictator moving troops in to occupy cities & arresting his opposition & disappearing people is just clicking as fascism for you.

Chicago! Haymarket Presents Ruth Wilson Gilmore in conversation with Barbara Ransby Thursday, September 11th at 6:30 pm Live from @haymarkethouse.bsky.social with @pilsencommbooks.bsky.social RSVP to attend (in-person and virtual) www.tickettailor.com/events/hayma...

I am really proud of the work these young men have been doing through our gun violence roundtable. Thanks to Amsterdam News for writing about this project and lifting up the perspectives of imprisoned people on the drivers of gun violence amsterdamnews.com/news/2025/08...

Why do you carry a gun? How a simple question is transforming lives in a Pennsylvania prison

In prison, Stevie Wilson leads talks with inmates on why they carry guns — and how to find real solutions to Philadelphia’s gun violence.

amsterdamnews.com

For people who may not understand the importance of political education and relationship building behind the wall, here is an anecdote about the self activity of imprisoned people during Black August.

"The actual process of organizing" involves getting people to "realize that prisons [are] an obstacle, rather than part of a solution, to the things they [are] trying to accomplish." @craiggilmore.bsky.social‬ on real-life strategy in abolitionist organizing inquest.org/organizi...

Organizing the Already Mobilized - Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Craig Gilmore, Judah Schept, & Lydia Pelot-Hobbs - Inquest

People involved with labor justice, grassroots community-building, and independent watchdogs make obvious allies for abolitionists—but how do we win them to our cause?

inquest.org

This book is a care package for organizers and activists. I wrote the first and last letters in the book and edited letters from beloved friends and co-strugglers like @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social, @mayaschenwar.bsky.social, @shaneburley.bsky.social, @prisonculture.bsky.social, and many more.

Read This When Things Fall Apart by Kelly Hayes | Pilsen Community Books

Letters to Activists in Crisis

pilsencommunitybooks.com

Our co-founder @prisonculture.bsky.social is also running a summer book drive to help support Bluestockings in keeping their doors open. 📚 Drop off or mail new or gently used social justice focused books! More details in the flyer.

We are doing groups inside on toxic masculinity and could use suggestions for readings, exercises, or curriculum that can help ground our discussions. Thank you in advance!

Once again, this is a massive public jobs program for fascists. This bill was never just about tax cuts and gutting social services. It's about investing our collective resources in violence and using state power to spread fear and destroy solidarity. We need to resist this with all we've got.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez@aoc.bsky.social · last yr.

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

If the GOP reconciliation bill passes, ICE gets through FY2029: - $45 billion for detention, on top of the current annual budget of $3.4 billion - $14.4 billion for transportation and removal, on top of the current annual budget of $750 million - $8 billion for hiring/retention - Billions more.

Jon Cooper@joncooper-us.bsky.social · last yr.

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