Lewis Raven Wallace
@lewispants.bsky.social
evidence-based transgender writer. fellow at interrupting criminalization. author of the view from somewhere: undoing the myth of journalistic objectivity and radical unlearning, out now. www.lewispants.com
It never brings me joy to have been right about the whole thing: the double standards, the transphobia, the rising tide of bullshit. And.
dr. thrasher, an american writer in ex(archia)(xile)@thrasherxy.bsky.social · 3mo agoOn NPR, SCOTUS, Transphobia & “Journalistic Objectivity”
Apply for this awesome study group with our Abolition Journalism Fellow by ➡️ June 29 ⬅️! ✨Radical unlearning ✨Love ✨Somatics ✨Abolition
Lewis Raven Wallace@lewispants.bsky.social · 3mo agoAnyone interested in deepening the conversation about radical unlearning, love, somatics, and abolition should join our summer study group! www.interruptingcriminalization.com/events/all/r...
Anyone interested in deepening the conversation about radical unlearning, love, somatics, and abolition should join our summer study group! www.interruptingcriminalization.com/events/all/r...
Radical Unlearning Study Group (July 9, 16, 23 and 30) — Interrupting Criminalization
Join Abolition Journalism Fellow Lewis Raven Wallace for a four-part summer discussion about his book, Radical Unlearning: The Art and Science of Creating Change from Within , with special guests who...
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Tim-my Eat World 😋🌏🎶@t2thacoops.bsky.social · 3mo agowhen @lewispants.bsky.social drops the phrase "the WASP-y repression of expressive love runs deep" in Radical Unlearning I felt seen in a brand new way 😭
We're doing another Radical Unlearning Study Group this July! Get the book here now: allgoodbooks.com/item/VdT28uS...
Radical Unlearning by Lewis Raven Wallace | All Good Books
A road map for rewiring our brains to unlearn harmful beliefs, heal broken bonds, and transform our communities “An intimate text on how we really change, deep underneath it all.
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Radical unlearning is a very different kind of tool than the dominant narrative of: We should talk to each other across the aisle. @lewispants.bsky.social reminds us that it’s also an empowering tool. @greatergoodmag.bsky.social
The Surprising Ways Love Opens Our Minds
A new book argues that when we are in loving relationships with others, we’re better able to unlearn prejudice and other habitual thought patterns.
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On 4/14 at 5:30 (ET), join Anita Varma as she discusses SOLIDARITY IN JOURNALISM: HOW ETHICAL REPORTING FIGHTS FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE in a virtual discussion w/ Lewis Raven Wallace. bit.ly/3OrWgJX @anitawrites.bsky.social @interruptcrim.bsky.social @lewispants.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social
"A society without solidarity is no longer a society at all." - Anita Varma www.scu.edu/ethics/all-a...
When Solidarity Reporting Becomes a Crime, We're all in Danger
Truthful reporting is faithful to the reality of what is happening on-the-ground, to real people in real time.
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Don't forget to register for Solidarity in Journalism with Anita Varma on April 14! bit.ly/ICNews58
Join us on April 14: Solidarity in Journalism 👥💬
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Unlearning individualism has been one of the steepest journeys of my last few years, trying to write a book about unlearning while letting go of expertise, authorship, ownership over ideas. I have Black feminist and Indigenous epistemologies to thank for guidance. The struggle continues...
Kettering Foundation@kettering.org · 6mo agoAmerican politics teaches us to approach things as an individual. @lewispants.bsky.social asks what that mindset might be costing us.
Solidarity in Journalism by Anita Varma comes out next week! An important book about what journalists can do when we move in solidarity with oppressed communities. We'll discuss the book online on April 14, from 5:30-6:30 eastern. Register here: www.interruptingcriminalization.com/events/all/s...
Solidarity in Journalism: A Virtual Discussion with Anita Varma and Lewis Raven Wallace — Interrupting Criminalization
A virtual discussion with IC Abolition Journalism Fellow and author Anita Varma on Anita’s new book Solidarity in Journalism: How Ethical Reporting Fights for Social Justice, in which she explains wha...
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More of this, please. I want to see it all fail. I want the theft slop bullshit to collapse into a vat of its own bullshit. May it crash so hard that the dot com burst of the early 2000s seems like a mere blip www.cbc.ca/news/world/s...
OpenAI shuts down Sora app amid rising concerns about deepfakes and consent | CBC News
OpenAI is shutting down its social media app Sora, which went viral last fall as a place to share short-form videos generated by artificial intelligence, but also raised alarms in Hollywood and beyond...
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Go fash lose cash bb
Status@status.news · 6mo agoSix months into Bari Weiss’ overhaul of CBS News, new ratings data obtained by Status shows its flagship programs are shedding viewers at an alarming rate, collapsing to historic lows and accelerating the network’s decline. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/cbs-news-r...
So cool to be among the finalists for this lovely award along with another Beacon author!
Beacon Press@beaconpress.bsky.social · 6mo agoClacking our fans for @doctressstory.bsky.social and @lewispants.bsky.social! 🪭🪭🪭 THE RAINBOW AIN’T NEVER BEEN ENUF and RADICAL UNLEARNING are finalists for @publishingtriangle.bsky.social’s 2026 Amber Hollibaugh Award for LGBTQ+ Social Justice Writing! Again, this is how you slay!
This was a fun interview with @kettering.org - we explored the role of challenge, tension, and good questions in creating fertile ground for #RadicalUnlearning. Thank you Alex for being a great reader and interviewer!
Kettering Foundation@kettering.org · 6mo agoLewis Raven Wallace (@lewispants.bsky.social), abolition journalism fellow with Interrupting Criminalization, joins us on #TheContext to talk about the power of deep listening, asking better questions, and how to actually have conversations that make real change possible.
Rest in power Breonna Taylor. Today, we mourn six years without her, and six years without justice or accountability.
(Feeling contemplative on a Friday night when U.S. is at war...grasping for the points of connection and power against the overwhelm and nihilism...wishing to somehow share with people this glowing ember of hopefulness about humans that I am blessed and cursed with.)
Also guilt and shame are really interesting, because they can be de-mobilizing but they can also create necessary cognitive dissonance. In psychology speak guilt is "pro-social" and helps us, you know, act right or at least desire to. But if we stop at guilt we become frozen or even reactionary.
My thing is not, like, we should never use guilt and shame as tactics. I'm all for it when targeting the powerful. But if our goal is bringing people into movement, and action, we need to do like Mariame and Kelly said in Let This Radicalize You and create invitations, not just make statements.
So often the story we are told is that everyone is set in their ways. But I want us to look closely at who benefits from that story. If we don't believe people change, why would we ever take action?
As I'm going around talking to people about radical unlearning, I keep being struck by how relieving the conversations feel. People are hungry for spaces where they can vulnerably explore what they/we have wrong about ourselves and each other. People WANT to unlearn and transform.
“Honest to God, it feels like a lot of people are out to get our babies,” MJ says. “I’m gonna be damned before I let some grown-ass adult disrespect my child and not stand up to that. People need to get over themselves and touch grass. Find Jesus — the brown one. Go to therapy.”
Lewis Raven Wallace@lewispants.bsky.social · 6mo agoParents in the South are organizing to support their trans kids. And it turns out, the vast majority of parents with trans kids support them, contrary to the myth that it's so very hard to do. May these courageous families set an example for all. @translash.org translash.org/wire/parents...
Respectfully, of COURSE the New York Times is manufacturing consent for war in the Middle East. Been doing that. Will continue to do that. I am not sure that we need "proof" so much as we need divestment from all news outlets who invest in empire.
Mehdi Hasan@mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 6mo agoIs the New York Times manufacturing consent for war in the Middle East? Is the mainstream media as a whole? Zeteo dug into some of the numbers in our First Draft newsletter this morning: zeteo.com/p/how-media-...
Parents in the South are organizing to support their trans kids. And it turns out, the vast majority of parents with trans kids support them, contrary to the myth that it's so very hard to do. May these courageous families set an example for all. @translash.org translash.org/wire/parents...
How parents in the South are organizing to support their trans kids - TransLash Media
Many families with trans children are advocating and creating alternative spaces across the South. Others fear they will have to leave.
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Psst, little secret, I'm making a new book. It is NOT about pigs (that one is coming too!)...it's about...how...journalism...can be...amazing...and change...the world...???!!! A Theory of Change for the journalism we need!
I have a storrrrrry coming out tomorrow and you know what? It's a little bit uplifting!
apropos of this, I really enjoyed @mskellymhayes.bsky.social latest interview with @lewispants.bsky.social on how people change their minds and engage in meaningful unlearning, it entirely tracks with my own personal experience
The Science of Unlearning And Why Organizers Need It
“Nobody had a story about unlearning that didn’t include a connection with other people,” says Lewis Raven Wallace.
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@lewispants.bsky.social: "I think it’s really easy to get caught up in the very intellectual academic kind of, what do you think? What do I think? What do we each think? As the main thing that matters when that’s not really how the bigger picture movement gets built." truthout.org/audio/the-sc...
I talked with @lewispants.bsky.social about the art and science of transformation, how people *really* let go of harmful beliefs, and how we can cultivate the conditions that make unlearning possible.
The Science of Unlearning And Why Organizers Need It
“Nobody had a story about unlearning that didn’t include a connection with other people,” says Lewis Raven Wallace.
truthout.org
