Laura McTighe

A few weeks ago I zoomed with a group of high school students and their adult mentor to discuss taking social action. I am thrilled to report that this group of 10 students raised $10,000 in two weeks to support their local food pantry. They sent me a photo and it has them all jumping and I tear up.

08.11.2025 22:42 — 👍 2469    🔁 347    💬 24    📌 0

I feel that some of you need regular reminders of how unpopular this man is. And frankly I see him getting even more so as the economy worsens. Again, this doesn't mean that he will give up any power but it does mean that WE HAVE POWER TOO.

18.10.2025 00:13 — 👍 2186    🔁 461    💬 15    📌 0

"training" is the consistent liberal canard. nope people, this is THEIR JOB. they are doing what they are hired to do.

09.10.2025 11:54 — 👍 291    🔁 51    💬 8    📌 0

I've already lost all patience with the "conversations" about ICE because it's the exact same "conversation" people have had in this country about policing since its inception. Nothing changes in that conversation. Just new people rip van winkleing every few weeks.

09.10.2025 11:57 — 👍 656    🔁 103    💬 5    📌 0

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Spoke with cnn while sitting on the floor of my hotel room hallway bc my family were asleep in the other room.

09.10.2025 11:22 — 👍 2825    🔁 652    💬 136    📌 80

I don't think most people understand what we're facing. Not really.

08.10.2025 14:04 — 👍 1374    🔁 247    💬 36    📌 0

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

08.10.2025 23:57 — 👍 6592    🔁 1841    💬 247    📌 343

I’ve received multiple death threats + doxing (including my home address) directly following harassment from Turning Point USA, Jack Posobiec, Andy NGO, + Fox News which called me an antifa ‘financier.’

I have been forced to move my classes online.

If journalists want to talk, DM me or reply here.

04.10.2025 23:29 — 👍 4267    🔁 1487    💬 146    📌 108

Trump Doesn’t Care if You’re Actually “Antifa” Have you protested his policies? His administration’s elastic definition of left-wing violence could eventually ensnare you.

I spoke with historian @mark-bray.bsky.social about what’s behind Trump's executive order declaring antifa a “domestic terrorist organization” and his memorandum ordering federal probes into “organized political violence.”

www.thecut.com/article/trum...

26.09.2025 20:16 — 👍 12    🔁 12    💬 1    📌 0

People are not brave as individuals.

18.09.2025 14:07 — 👍 438    🔁 44    💬 9    📌 0

If Leftists are so out of step with the rest of the country, then doesn't this presume that Leftists are ALWAYS engaging with people who disagree with us???

18.09.2025 16:18 — 👍 265    🔁 34    💬 8    📌 0

Cover of Fire Dreams: Making Black Feminist Liberation in the South by Laura McTighe, with Women With A Vision. Foreword by Deon Haywood. Cover features a painting of a woman walking forward, with a long piece of fabric draped over her shoulders and billowing behind her. Four figures stand behind her in the shadowed part of the painting, while the woman walking forward, facing to the left of the cover is illuminated.

Cover of Excited Delirium: Race, Police Violence, and the Invention of a Disease by Aisha M. Beliso-De Jesús. Cover is black with an inverted black and white image of several figures in an urban setting behind police tape. Trees behind the figures appear to be glowing brightly. The title appears in orange on the top half of the design and the subtitle and author name are smaller and in white.

Cover of Indifference: On the Praxis of Interspecies Being by Naisargi N. Davé. The cover is light gray, and features drawings of different people from the torso up, with empty thought and speech bubbles over their heads. There are several animals around the people, including a cheetah, deer, birds, a cat, and a dog. There are also multicolored circles patterned around the people.

Cover of Residual Governance: How South Africa Foretells Planetary Futures by Gabrielle Hecht. Cover portrays a sandy and rocky landscape. In the foreground, a shirtless man, wearing blue pants and a black hat, chips away at the ground with a pick ax.

Congratulations to Laura McTighe and Women with a Dream, Aisha M. Beliso-De Jesús, Naisargi N. Davé, and Gabrielle Hecht, whose books were awarded SHA's 2025 Edie and Victor Turner Prizes in Ethnographic Writing! buff.ly/DDfqFsq

03.09.2025 16:16 — 👍 10    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

Reminder to those who wanted to help pack the courtroom next week 👇🏼

01.01.2025 19:52 — 👍 746    🔁 409    💬 7    📌 4

Defunding Dissent Philanthropists have quietly withdrawn funding from grassroots groups that spoke out for Gaza, imperiling a broad range of social justice movements.

Several liberal foundations are quietly pulling funding for nonprofits that expressed solidarity with or concern for Gaza jewishcurrents.org/defunding-di...

19.12.2024 22:06 — 👍 95    🔁 37    💬 1    📌 2

We are so grateful to close out 2024 with this beautful review by Daven McQueen for the @inquest.bsky.social Year in Books, alongside so many dear comrades. Please consider gifting a copy of FIRE DREAMS to anyone you know who needs fuel for how we continue the work in these times. Forward Ever.

19.12.2024 22:06 — 👍 10    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0

The Year in Books | INQUEST A curated list of 2024 publications that moved us to continue working toward a world without mass incarceration.

My book "White Property, Black Trespass" is included in the year-end staff picks from @inquest.bsky.social alongside important work by @lauramctighe.bsky.social @jesspish.bsky.social @michellesphelps.bsky.social @mfkantor.bsky.social Rachel Herzing, James Kilgore + others. Super rad and an honor!

19.12.2024 17:03 — 👍 11    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 0

The Year in Books | INQUEST A curated list of 2024 publications that moved us to continue working toward a world without mass incarceration.

Great to see "Fire Dreams" by @lauramctighe.bsky.social , Deon Haywood, & @womenwithavision.bsky.social included in @inquest.bsky.social 's Year in Books!

19.12.2024 15:39 — 👍 9    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 1

Letter to A Young Organizer A Missive Across Time and Space

In this letter to a young organizer, @prisonculture.bsky.social invites us all "to embrace uncertainty as a terrain of glorious possibility."

Too many gems to share only one. I hope you give it a read.

13.11.2024 15:42 — 👍 65    🔁 30    💬 2    📌 0

I didn’t! and I love this! We talk about the 2008 Stony Point conference in Fire Dreams, and the incredible skill and grace with which @kenyonfarrow.bsky.social moved people from vastly different positions towards an understanding of nonreformist-reforms and abolition. It’s where Deon and I met!

13.11.2024 13:27 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

It would be so good to see you after all these years!

13.11.2024 04:39 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

11/14 - Abolition, Feminism, Organizing: "All Our Trials : Prisons, Policing, and the Feminist Fight to End Violence" + "Fire Dreams: Making Black Feminist Liberation in the South" by Red Emma's Get tickets and support Red Emma's by becoming a member

Coming up this Thursday, Nov 14, @lauramctighe.bsky.social and Deon Haywood, authors of “Fire Dreams,” appear on an in-person panel entitled “Abolition, Feminism, Organizing” at @redemmas.org in #Baltimore. ow.ly/QKLM50U5xTl

12.11.2024 19:15 — 👍 9    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0

JOIN US this Thursday Nov 14th 6:00-7:30pm at Red Emma’s for our joint book talk *Abolition, Feminism, Organizing: “All Our Trials : Prisons, Policing, and the Feminist Fight to End Violence” + “Fire Dreams: Making Black Feminist Liberation in the South.”*
Register here! redemmas.org/events/aboli...

12.11.2024 16:41 — 👍 6    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

Thousands march for Palestine through the midtown tunnel with keffiyehs, Palestine flags, signs, and banners at night. Faces are obscured with watermelon emojis.

Shut down the Midtown Tunnel in NYC.

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