I just finished reading this book. I can't praise it highly enough. It is worth your time, it is worth your energy, it is worth your attention, it is worth a visit to your local library or your purchase. It may even have helped inform me as an ally in some subtle ways. 100% great stuff.

Ada Hoffmann@ada-hoffmann.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Hi, new followers! Someone else did a "happy Pride, all my books are gay!" thread and now I want to do it too. First up is IGNORE ALL PREVIOUS INSTRUCTIONS, just out this May. A sapphic cis woman and a trans space pirate team up to fight genAI, book bans, and censorship. Super queer and super fun!

Just keeps getting better ☺️

Joshua Bowman@thalesdisciple.bsky.social · 3d ago

Seventeen years yesterday. Happy anniversary, beloved! @hannahnpbowman.com

Because people in this country are so accustomed to excessive punishment and surveillance, they did not detect just how many immigrants were receiving ankle monitors ("Alternatives to Detention."). The $$ means ICE has an unlimited supply. www.wyso.org/news/2026-07...

DHS summoning some Haitians to check-ins, using ankle monitors to track them

The Department of Homeland Security has notified Haitians who previously had TPS status to report to their office in Blue Ash, Ohio, for a ‘check-in."

wyso.org

Reformers touted the use of ankle monitors as a way to reduce jail populations. But they do not! They increase jail populations because people are penalized for breaking "rules" imposed by this surveillance. This is not a "substitute" for prison; it is prison.

These exist, if you’re into folk dance and traditional music! (Eg pinewoods.org stocktonfolkdancecamp.org and more)

Melody Schreiber@melodyschreiber.com · 4d ago

Every year that goes by, I'm increasingly convinced that adults need summer camps too

When I was mugged, the police (who were perfectly polite to me) suggested that I use Find My iPhone. My insurance company paid for full replacement value of everything I lost, immediately and without question.

Em, midly@lefttheprairie.bsky.social · 4d ago

It’s so funny when people are like “sure you’re an abolitionist now but wait until you’re the victim of a property crime.” Buddy, the most useful thing the police have ever done for property crime is put the form you need to submit to your insurance online.

This is really helpful:

Martha Smith@mostlymartha.bsky.social · 5d ago

Speaking of the PCUSA, they just shared The Multi-Faith Guide to Responding to Deadly ICE Enforcement from the Interfaith Immigration Coalition. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

buy @hannahnpbowman.com's book! www.fortresspress.com/store/produc...

Abolition Ecclesiology: A Spatial Theology for a Church Against Prisons

In Abolition Ecclesiology, Hannah Bowman offers a spatial analysis of theological beliefs that contribute to society's enormous reliance on incarceration and punishment. The book presents an alternati...

fortresspress.com

I wrote about how immigration arrests are at all-time highs, even as ICE is trying to assume a lower public profile. How are they doing this? Look to your local police.

ICE’s Secret Weapon Is in Your Community

While attempting to maintain a relatively lower profile, ICE is managing to arrest record numbers of people. Here’s how it’s doing that.

newrepublic.com

This thread is AMAZING (headcanon accepted)

madeline odent@oldenoughtosay.com · 5d ago

Happy Friday everyone, as promised, here is my personal theory on this. I think Redwall takes place in our world, after an apocalyptic event of the nuclear variety caused rapid but varied growth of all animals, including humans, leading to our extinction and their mental development. Okay? 🧵

Resharing this chaos meme today because of the EXCITING news that if you pre-order a hardcover directly from the publisher you can get 30% off with the code BOWMAN30: www.fortresspress.com/store/produc...

Abolition Ecclesiology: A Spatial Theology for a Church Against Prisons

In Abolition Ecclesiology, Hannah Bowman offers a spatial analysis of theological beliefs that contribute to society's enormous reliance on incarceration and punishment. The book presents an alternati...

fortresspress.com

Hannah Bowman@hannahnpbowman.com · 2w ago

I was jealous that everyone else had a cute chaos book trope meme so I made one for my book.

Resharing this chaos meme today because of the EXCITING news that if you pre-order a hardcover directly from the publisher you can get 30% off with the code BOWMAN30: www.fortresspress.com/store/produc...

Abolition Ecclesiology: A Spatial Theology for a Church Against Prisons

In Abolition Ecclesiology, Hannah Bowman offers a spatial analysis of theological beliefs that contribute to society's enormous reliance on incarceration and punishment. The book presents an alternati...

fortresspress.com

Hannah Bowman@hannahnpbowman.com · 2w ago

I was jealous that everyone else had a cute chaos book trope meme so I made one for my book.

OK but this explains so much about anti-vax thinking to me, because it makes it clear that their objection is: "vaccines are girly."

Fancy Pants 🎩@farnaby.xyz · last wk.

Fauci has never seemed more relatable than this image and now I want to hang out with him. Also vaccines ARE cool.

Also a reminder today that we have a meditation on the Revised Common Lectionary in view of migrant justice every week: episcopal-migration-caucus.ghost.io/mwe/

MWD Lectionary: Proper 13

Genesis 32:22–31 This passage from Genesis finds Jacob meeting God on the move. He is returning from the land of his father-in-law Laban with his wives, back to his ancestral home, where his brother ...

episcopal-migration-caucus.ghost.io

I am seeing “is prison abolition feasible” discourse today and so I want to contribute that I have tried to answer the question of what we do about violence in an abolitionist future, in my FAQ here: christiansforabolition.org/faq/

FAQ

But what about “violent predators”? This is the question we get most often. “What about serial killers? What about murderers? What about rapists and abusers? How do…

christiansforabolition.org

HAPPY BOOK LAUNCH DAY to @sesmith.lol! Don't let the title fool you, this book is about way more than cats or even pet loss — it's about grief, the way Western culture is fucking weird about it, and how we can do better for ourselves, our friends, and our community. bookshop.org/a/118950/978...

All My Dead Cats and Other Losses: Practicing Good Grief in a Culture That Fears Mourning

"Both a grief book that doesn't read like a clinician's notes and a memoir wrapped around a bigger subject, All My Dead Cats takes grief from the taboo to the universal." — BooklistHave you suffered a...

bookshop.org

More essential reading! "Detention is an institution of social control," @silkys13.bsky.social reminds us. And "There is so much emphasis on improving conditions when the answer is actually to release people. The best way for people to have good… health is not to be in these institutions"

Puff the Magic Hater@mskellymhayes.bsky.social · last wk.

In my latest, I talk with @silkys13.bsky.social about the struggle against ICE. How are the government’s tactics shifting, and how must we respond? We also discuss the tremendous victory of fighting off the warehouse model for the regime’s concentration camps, and where the fight goes from here.

As usual, essential reading from @prisonpolicy.org. Particularly of note is their explanation of how "ICE detention" can't be easily separated from local jails, which are contracting to house immigrant detainees all the time. It's all one, awful, hellish system.

Prison Policy Initiative@prisonpolicy.org · last wk.

🚨NEW: Pres. Trump's belligerent use of policing and prosecutions has already left its mark on the federal system. Over the last two years, federal incarceration and detention have grown by 12%, with immigration detention and prosecution being a main driver. 🧵

Great thread (and her Beowulf is the BEST)

Maria Dahvana Headley @mariadahvana.bsky.social · last wk.

In truth, if you're not going to piss anyone off, you probably don't have enough passion to do a translation or adaptation of said famous epic. it's totally normal & appropriate to feel passionately about other people's versions of an epic. It's part of the tradition to shout about epics in public.

Barnes and Noble says: "From beloved pets to loved ones lost unexpectedly, this relatable book, drawing on dozens of expert interviews, offers a fresh perspective on mourning." Order my book, it's out TOMORROW!

All My Dead Cats and Other Losses: Practicing Good Grief in a Culture That Fears Mourning

"Both a grief book that doesn't read like a clinician's notes and a memoir wrapped around a bigger subject, All My Dead Cats takes grief from the taboo to the universal." — BooklistHave you suffered a...

bookshop.org

From @ala-booklist.bsky.social: 'Throughout, smith makes a strong argument: grief is something that must be felt, both individually and collectively, when it comes knocking.' Out Tuesday!

All My Dead Cats and Other Losses: Practicing Good Grief in a Culture That Fears Mourning

"Both a grief book that doesn't read like a clinician's notes and a memoir wrapped around a bigger subject, All My Dead Cats takes grief from the taboo to the universal." — BooklistHave you suffered a...

bookshop.org

Lego flowers! (10345 plus some extras)

I was jealous that everyone else had a cute chaos book trope meme so I made one for my book.

"Grief is something that must be felt, both individually and collectively, when it comes knocking." Lovely writeup at Booklist! www.booklistonline.com/products/982...

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Abolition Ecclesiology: A Spatial Theology for a Church Against Prisons

In Abolition Ecclesiology, Hannah Bowman offers a spatial analysis of theological beliefs that contribute to society's enormous reliance on incarceration and punishment. The book presents an alternati...

fortresspress.com

I was jealous that everyone else had a cute chaos book trope meme so I made one for my book.

It's right to be outraged. Just as it's right to be outraged when ICE guns someone down. But I also want us to remember all of the people dying due to deplorable conditions in prisons, jails, and immigration detention centers, bc they are also being murdered by the state.

Police, in cities of almost any size, should be disarmed completely. Seriously. They should have to seek judicial permission to open the gun safe only under specific circumstances and when they are engaged in specific activities. Otherwise? Completely disarmed.

Give me a page number from 1-287 and I'll give you a line!

s. e. smith@sesmith.lol · 2w ago

I’ve spent six years working on it, and next week, my book on grief, American culture, who is allowed to mourn and how, and whether we can take up grief as a collective project will be unleashed on the world! Do yourself (and me) a favor and preorder now.