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Ruha Benjamin @ruha9.bsky.social ✍🏽 • RACE AFTER TECHNOLOGY: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code • VIRAL JUSTICE: How We Grow the World We Want • IMAGINATION: A Manifesto 📚www.ruhabenjamin.com
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Septima P. Snark @drsubini.blacksky.app DisCrit-Critical Educator-Black Asian Feminist exploring intersections, searching for Justice-Yogini-Tweets=mine. She/Her Author-Pedagogy of Pathologization 🍉
Genie Lauren @moreandagain.me The Boogie Down's own anarchist and creative • Kill your idols before I do it for you • Twitter & Instagram: MoreAndAgain
Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com movement building reporter @us.theguardian.com
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Artie Vierkant @avierkant.bsky.social Death Panel podcast @deathpanel.bsky.social
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wrote Health Communism (Verso, 2022) with Beatrice Adler-Bolton @reallandsend.bsky.social // forthcoming ALL CARE FOR ALL PEOPLE (Haymarket, 2027)
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Beatrice Adler-Bolton @reallandsend.bsky.social cohost @deathpanel.bsky.social podcast
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coauthor with @avierkant.bsky.social Health Communism (Verso); forthcoming All Care For All People (Haymarket)
theorizing health, debility, class struggle & the state
minneapolis
Death Panel @deathpanel.bsky.social Stay alive another week
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Chase Madar @madar.bsky.social Author, attorney, translator. Teaching law ~and society~ at NYU Gallatin. Make the Road NY legal alum.
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Rebecca McCray @rebeccakmccray.bsky.social Reporting/Writing/Engaging/Newslettering: Find me @ The Marshall Project, The Guardian, New York Focus, Hell Gate, NY Mag, Offrange, etc.
Previously: audience engagement
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social DC. political philosopher at Georgetown, editor at @hammerandhope.bsky.social, rhythm guitarist + vox for @femiandfoundation.bsky.social. #COYS
M. E. O'Brien @genderhorizon.com author. towards trans communist futures. Family Abolition: Capitalism and the Communizing of Care (Pluto, 2023) and Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052–2072 (Common Notions, 2022). Editor at Pinko
JusticeWithJean @jeantrounstine.com Novel Debut: SOUNDS LIKE TROUBLE TO ME, May 12, 2026. Running Wild Pub. Prof.& Prison Activist, Author/ed 8 books including SHAKESPEARE BEHIND BARS (St. Martins), BOY WITH A KNIFE (IGpublishing). Truthout, BINJreports, BostonMag--www.jeantrounstine.com
brian nam-sonenstein @bson.bsky.social senior editor & researcher @prisonpolicy.org
Sarah Jaffe @sarahljaffe.bsky.social Troublemaker. Vagrant. Author of From the Ashes, Work Won't Love You Back and Necessary Trouble.
Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org radical publisher of politics, culture, current events
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social Menominee | Organizer | Co-author of Let This Radicalize You | Hosts Movement Memos podcast | Newsletter: organizingmythoughts.org | More: http://linktr.ee/KellyHayes
Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social Anarchist. Host of Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff. Co-owner of Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness. Latest book is The Immortal Choir Holds Every Voice. she/they
Vicky ACAB @vickyacab.bsky.social Writer at CAW https://www.cawshinythings.com/
Read The Extended Universe!
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Called "our own cunty Gramsci" and "Disney's worst fan"
shitposting through the years of lead paint
Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social President of @crisesnotes.bsky.social (https://www.crisesnotes.com/)
Book: [About Undetermined], under contract with Viking Books
email: crisesnotes@gmail(dot)com
Signal: NathanTankus.01 (only for reporting... Okay on weekends you can confess crushes)
jon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com criminalization, abolition, labor, politics, journalism—social science theory & methods too. sociology phd candidate @ columbia. @swcolumbia.bsky.social
noah jodice @noahjodice.bsky.social illustrator and such
It's Going Down @igd.bsky.social In search of new forms of life. Sharing news, podcasts, and opinion about autonomous social movements across so-called North America.
Appalachian Prison Book Project (APBP) @appalachianpbp.bsky.social We send free books and provide educational opportunities to people incarcerated in Appalachia. 📖 https://appalachianprisonbookproject.org
Bolts @boltsmag.org A publication that covers the nuts and bolts of political change: Boltsmag.org
The Appeal @theappeal.org We are a worker-run newsroom reporting on the harms of the criminal legal system.
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In These Times @inthesetimes.com A publication committed to informing and advancing movements for social, economic, racial and environmental justice. Founded in 1976.
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Pinko Magazine @pinko.online Pinko is a collective for thinking gay communism together. We publish magazines, books and zines in print and online. Our latest magazine is now available for pre-sale here: https://shop.pinko.online/products/issue-4
october "pre-order The Struggle Is Always Worth It now!" krausch @octoberk.bsky.social freelance sociologist, writer, facilitator, editor. they/them. organizing with Detroit Peer Respite & Abolitionist Book Club. proud union member Freelance Solidarity Project & Rutgers PTLFC-AAUP-AFT. https://www.octoberk.com
on signal: @freeze.16
Alex Zucker @alexzucker.bsky.social Translating Czech -> English: linktr.ee/AlexZucker
Organizing: New York Dignity Not Detention | Immigration Justice Working Group, SURJ NYC | Literary Translators Division, NWU | #StopArmingIsrael #FreePalestine
Californians United for a Responsible Budget (CURB) @curbprisons.bsky.social We are a coalition of over 80 organizations working to reduce the number of incarcerated people in California, reduce the number of jails and prisons in our state and shift wasteful spending away from incarceration and toward healthy community investments.
Interrupting Criminalization @interruptcrim.bsky.social Offering research, connection, learning, and practice for organizers and movements working to end criminalization, policing, and punishment. Founded and led by Andrea J. Ritchie and Mariame Kaba.
Learn more at http://interruptingcriminalization.com/
David Kaib @davidkaib.bsky.social Political education, socialism, abolition, unions, cats
Craig Gilmore @craiggilmore.bsky.social abolitionist organizing // land & housing // books & music.
Recovering Carceral Feminist-Ask Me How! @leighgoodmark.bsky.social Professor at Maryland Carey Law, director of Gender, Prison, and Trauma Clinic, author of Imperfect Victims: Criminalized Survivors and the Promise of Abolition Feminism and Decriminalizing Domestic Violence (UC Press). She/her/mom. leighgoodmark.com
Dan Berger @dnbrgr.bsky.social Writer of words, hater of prisons
Author of STAYED ON FREEDOM, CAPTIVE NATION, & other things. PRISON: INCARCERATION AND THE MAKING OF AMERICA coming March 2027:
www.danberger.info | www.waprisonhistory.org
Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social she/her
Book on sheriffs & democracy
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“Women aren’t typically this crazy about politics.”
Inquest @inquest.bsky.social National Magazine Award finalist. Cited in Best American Essays. Stillwater Award winner. Focused on ending mass incarceration.
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Kay Whitlock @kwhitlock.bsky.social Writer. Activist. Co-author "Queer (In)Justice: The Criminalization of LGBT People in the United States"; "Considering Hate: Violence, Goodness, and Justice in American Culture"; and "Carceral Con: The Deceptive Terrain of Criminal Justice Reform."
Truthout @truthout.org Independent reporting and commentary on a diverse range of social justice issues.
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Solitary Watch @solitarywatch.bsky.social Shining light into the darkest corners of the U.S. punishment system. http://solitarywatch.org | Subscribe: http://bit.ly/swdispatch | Support: http://bit.ly/givesw
Oakland Abolition & Solidarity @oaklandabosol.bsky.social Prisoner solidarity crew out of so-called Oakland.
Bring it all down so all may rise up.
Andrea Ritchie @dreanyc123.bsky.social Black. Lesbian. Immigrant.
Cofounder @interruptcrim.bsky.social
Author #InvisibleNoMoreBook & #PracticingNewWorlds
Co-author #NoMorePolice & Queer (In)Justice
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Prison Policy Initiative @prisonpolicy.org Challenging mass incarceration and over-criminalization through research, advocacy, and organizing. Get email updates: https://prisonpolicy.org/subscribe/
Prison Journalism Project @prisonjournalism.bsky.social An independent national nonprofit initiative that trains incarcerated writers in the tools of journalism and publishes their stories.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social co-founder of various organizations: Interrupting Criminalization; Survived & Punished; Sojourners for Justice Press; For the People Leftist Library Project, NYC PLAN, etc...
Prism @prismreports.org An independent, nonprofit newsroom that goes where justice requires.
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Lara Witt @femmfeministe.bsky.social Editor-in-Chief of @prismreports.org | Co-founder of the Movement Media Alliance and Media Against Apartheid and Displacement | lara@prismreports.org
Maya Schenwar @mayaschenwar.bsky.social Director, Truthout Center for Grassroots Journalism.
Board president, Truthout.
Co-editor “We Grow the World Together”
Co-author “Prison by Any Other Name”
Abolitionist, anti-zionist, pro-cat, pro-karaoke, Chicagoan
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