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Cell Count Cell Count is a quarterly bulletin by and for prisoners, ex-prisoners, their loved ones and those who want to know what's really going on in prisons. Each issue is filled with articles, stories, art, ...

Did u know about Cell Count #newspaper? Starting the day today reading the December 2025 issue "Transitions."

People facing incarceration face another set of walls, as people on the outside look away. CC delivers the news CBC won't tell. As a psych consumer-survivor this paper means a lot to me.

05.02.2026 13:27 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

But there's an extractiveness to univ. research: an aerial gaze, a helicopter mentality, a deficit in the skills (& sense of proportion) needed to maintain relationships, to see that as an essential part of the work, for its ethical AND ALSO epistemic virtues.

Also extractive: unpaid???

Wary.

03.02.2026 16:39 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

How that work is spoken of can influence its success and visibility. Which inclines me to pull up a chair and help ensure that academic manuscripts about harm reduction aren't belittling anyone, compounding erasure, or making false claims about the efficacy of current, "official" systems.

03.02.2026 16:37 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

There's a busyness to "knowledge production" but this stuff really, really matters. More inclined to sit and breathe about it than edit manuscripts. When we talk community health policy and programming, yes we're talking grassroots, but that doesn't contradict that we are talking about governance...

03.02.2026 16:34 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Would i love it? Oh yes. I miss the glee and flow of publishing and feel aligned with the journal topic. It would be genuinely fun.

h o w e v e r 🧐

Am i really willing to do a few hours weekly of unpaid work? Is that a good use of my time, proportional to the likely benefits? Is that ethical??

03.02.2026 16:30 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Just applied to be an Associate Editor, Harm Reduction Journal. Whereupon i'm having a whole little reckoning with my understanding of the value of my own labour.

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03.02.2026 16:29 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Guswenta, a wampum belt that is the Two Row Covenant, on a loom. Shell beads show two purple rows travelling in parallel, respectfully side-by-side. A hand is visible on the left side.

Appreciate Muscogee artist Elisa Harkins for sharing about this collaboratively beaded iteration of the Two Row!
www.elisaharkins.org/portfolio/2-...
Attribution for cover photo: Elisa Harkins

03.02.2026 15:44 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0