Brianna Suslovic, MSW

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We do! And we capture when sales have been canceled due to community resistance.

🔴 = Bought by ICE
🟢 = Canceled by community
🟡 = Still for sale
🟣 = Reopoening detention facility
🔵 = Potential admin office leases

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Thank you!!

Struggle is not the goal.

It’s the method.

To get free.

Too many people imagine struggle is the goal, so any acts of worldbuilding that prefigure freedom are dismissed as incidental, as distractions.

Cursive script spelling out "Cal" in yellow on a blue background, otherwise known as the UC Berkeley logo.

I'm thrilled to share that in August, I will be starting a tenure-track Assistant Professor role at University of California, Berkeley in the School of Social Welfare! Thank you to the collaborators, colleagues, mentors, family members, and friends who have supported me on my job search journey.

How to Survive in a House Without Walls After their home was obliterated, Rasha Abou Jalal and her family remain determined to build a new one, even if it must be built out of nothing.

“As of this writing, we have settled in a rented house in the south of Gaza City—though ‘house’ is a generous description. It is the remnants of a home,” says, Rasha Abou Jala, a Palestinian journalist in Gaza.

Photo of two queer people looking away from each other superimposed with an image of two queer people looking toward each other.

Some personal news: I am now a wife who really loves her wife! The state will give me tax benefits for this next year!

News Stories Shape Public Perception of Trans Lives. We’re Keeping Score. — Assigned Our Trans News Tracking Project seeks to catalogue bias at major news organizations in the US.

In 2026, we're launching an ambitious effort to track legacy news media's coverage of the trans community, with a focus on the words news outlets choose and how those are changing as right wing pressure threatens the independence of our press.

www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

‘ELITE’: The Palantir App ICE Uses to Find Neighborhoods to Raid Internal ICE material and testimony from an official obtained by 404 Media provides the clearest link yet between the technological infrastructure Palantir is building for ICE and the agency’s activit...

SCOOP: Internal ICE material and testimony from an official obtained by 404 Media provides the clearest link yet between the technological infrastructure Palantir is building for ICE and the agency’s activities on the ground.

Inside the app called ELITE—what ICE uses to find neighborhoods to raid.

Assaults, Chaos and Deception: New Rikers Report Details Widespread Dysfunction A monitor overseeing the Department of Correction described ongoing jail violence and an agency unwilling to cooperate. Meanwhile, a judge has yet to appoint a promised "remediation manager.”

A monitor overseeing the Department of Correction described ongoing jail violence and an agency unwilling to cooperate. Meanwhile, a judge has yet to appoint a promised “remediation manager.”

www.thecity.nyc/2026/01/14/r...

Graph showing that policies blocking ICE access to jails have kept immigration arrest rates lower in some states.

In 2025, local police & jails played a crucial role in ICE's deportation agenda.

For this year to be any different, states must prohibit this collaboration and rein in sheriffs.

Audi Crooks is incredible. Potential to be one of the greatest pro players of all time. Already breaking records!

Raising my metaphorical glass of non-alcoholic grape juice to all of the fighters out there. Let's do more in 2026.

UPDATE: State’s Attorney Burke announced on Friday that she is expanding this policy citywide, despite the call to end the policy from 130+ organizations and community leaders. Read our statement here: www.chicagoappleseed.org/2025/11/25/s...

Mothering Through Genocide by Helena Vissing and Heba Al-Turk A psychologist and a mother in Gaza write across war and distance — witnessing love, trauma, and the collapse of Western clinical frameworks.

I'm very moved to read this exchange from my friend Helena and her friend Heba in Gaza. analytic-room.com/corresponden...

Happily @adrianna.bsky.social and colleagues have this covered in @jhppl.bsky.social : read.dukeupress.edu/jhppl/articl...

Findings of Fact & Conclusions of Law – #261 in American Association of University Professors v. Rubio (D. Mass., 1:25-cv-10685) – CourtListener.com Judge William G. Young: ORDER entered. FINDINGS OF FACT AND RULINGS OF LAW, PURSUANT TO FED. R. CIV. P. 52(A)(Sonnenberg, Elizabeth) (Additional attachment(s) added on 9/30/2025: # 1 Main Document) (J...

BREAKING: WE WON!!!
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Federal Judge William G. Young ruled today in our lawsuit against the Trump administration that the policy of arresting, detaining, & deporting noncitizen students & faculty members for their pro-Palestinian advocacy violates the 1st Amendment.

Full ruling here:

Just two Barbies who hate mediocrity. #AngelReese

This worksheet includes content adapted from our Mapping Community Ecosystems of Collective Care toolkit, and also incorporates lessons and ideas from activists and organizers from around the country, including LA and DC.

You can check out the toolkit on our website here:

Edward Said noted, "I want to communicate with clarity on as many levels as possible, to as many different audiences... I do not ever want to be accused of saying one thing to my people, and a totally different thing to others. I am trying to say the same thing everywhere." Mobility and strength!

Reporters from across newsrooms in Chicago are collaborating to collect visual evidence of federal agents detaining people & using force in Chicago. Send videos to tinyurl.com/chicagojournalists, or get in touch via email chicagojournalists@protonmail.com.

With Big Tech, the Border Is Everywhere Given that the border is already mystified as a technology, new forms of computerized border technologies doubly fetishize the configurations of people, materials, force, and law that compose…

In “Resisting Borders and Technologies of Violence,” Mizue Aizeki, Matt Mahmoudi, and Coline Schupfer offer “concrete discussions of strategy and analysis learned from activism.”

Jenna M. Loyd reviews, new at PB:

brianna suslovic social welfare policy researcher | organizational consultant | facilitator | social work educator

Excited to share that I am on the academic job market, looking for #assistantprofessor positions in social work, criminology/criminal justice, or interdisciplinary programs! My CV and relevant information are here: briannasuslovic.com. If you see any positions that might be a match, let me know!

Global media outlets protest Israel’s killing of journalists in Gaza | CNN Media outlets coordinated a large-scale editorial protest on Monday to demand Israel stop the killing of journalists in Gaza and call for international press to be allowed into the enclave to report f...

NPR is among the news organizations that has signed an appeal calling for Israel to stop attacks on journalists in Gaza, and demanding foreign journalists' access to Gaza.

www.npr.org/2025/09/01/n...

And that explains why the U.N. is moving out of the U.S.

When they say “crime is up,” they don’t mean actual violations of law.

By crime, they mean visible evidence of unsheltered homelessness. They mean immigrant communities that violate their assumptions about what languages & cultures should be present.

And they want to incarcerate both out of sight.

Oh, this will be GOOD.

New study finds confined neurodivergent youth of color are particularly vulnerable to physical assault by staff A new study analyzing a national survey of youth in custody reveals stark disparities in rates of staff physical assault among Black and neurodivergent youth.

A very nerdy research dissemination milestone today: thanks to @prisonpolicy.org for helping to make this study more accessible to organizers and policymakers! We examine how racism and ableism might show up in disparities related to youth incarceration. www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2025/08...