So excited to launch this veery important project. Please share and follow @the-work-and-us.bsky.social
“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
Prison guards are flocking to ICE jobs and frankly this makes sense. Those of us who have been anti-prison organizers for decades have been saying that fascism already existed within prisons/jails. Our best teachers for how to survive fascism are incarcerated people.
If you want to support our project or learn more about our work, please email us at theworkandus@gmail.com or DM us @the-work-and-us.bsky.social
You can check out a piece we released in @inquest.bsky.social to get a sense of our methodology. We use participatory research as an entry point to bring incarcerated people into the abolitionist movement and engage in political education. inquest.org/why-incarcer...
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.”
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...
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.
My friends are helping me to raise funds so I can afford basic necessities and start building my life. If you can, consider donating. www.gofundme.com/f/support-st...
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.
Rest in power Assata.
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.
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...
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...
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.
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!
