Town Hall Seattle @townhallseattle.bsky.social Town Hall Seattle amplifies ideas, fosters civil discourse, and connects people through events in a vibrant historic building — inspiring lifelong learning, discovery, and dialogue.
Emily Drabinski @edrabinski.bsky.social PSCCUNY. #CUNYStrong. Queer. Collective power, public good. Organize your workplace. Zindabad. Makibaka. Solidarity
kelly jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social Senior Editor at Book Riot. Editor/Author of BODY TALK, HERE WE ARE, + (DON'T) CALL ME CRAZY. Former librarian. Anti-censorship advocate. Yoga teacher. Your favorite infernal witch. She/her. Library Journal Mover & Shaker in 2024.
The Letters From Prison Project @lettersfromprison.bsky.social The Letters From Prison Project is a blog that offers candid and honest insider views of America's carceral institutions, provided by currently and formerly incarcerated individuals. You can find us at lettersfromprison.net
Jackie Snow @jackiesnow.bsky.social Aspiring novelist/screenwriter that is currently better known as AI journalist pubbed by NYT, WSJ, Nat Geo, etc. Former @B2PDC board member still mad about prison book bans.
Crow's Nest Comics @crowsnest.quest Local queer/trans woman of color owned comic book store in Seattle's Central District. We carry all ages comics, local/small press stuff, queer/trans comics, 18+ comics, art from local artists, MtG, and more!
https://campsite.bio/crowsnestcomics
DC Books to Prisons @dcbookstoprisons.bsky.social Since 1999, DC Books to Prisons has provided free books to incarcerated individuals. https://linktr.ee/dcbtp
P. Gabrielle Foreman @profgabrielle.bsky.social Literary historian. Poet’s daughter. MacArthur Fellow. Archives builder working collectively at @CCP_org and @DigBlk.
Books to Prisoners Spokane @books2prisonersspo.bsky.social We seek to empower people who are incarcerated with access to the books and knowledge they deserve by connecting incarcerated individuals with reading materials at their request.
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The labor librarian @laborlibrarian.bsky.social Grew up in a UFW/IWW household. Now I’m a public to academic librarian, union thug, and general roustabout.
Anonymous because I’m not tenured yet.
Pro-Palestinian, pro-trans, anti-racist, anti-AI, and not fit for human consumption.
Books Through Bars Philly @booksthroughbars.bsky.social We are a books to prisoners project located in West Philly! ❤️📚
Come volunteer with us!
📍4722 Baltimore Ave, Philadelphia, PA 19143
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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org radical publisher of politics, culture, current events
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Massive Bookshop @massivebookshop.bsky.social The bookstore that bails people out of jail.
http://massivebookshop.com
Beacon Prison Books Project @prisonbooksproject.bsky.social We provide free books to incarcerated persons in New York State, by request.
LGBT Books to Prisoners @lgbtb2p.bsky.social A trans-affirming, racial justice-focused, prison abolitionist project sending books to incarcerated LGBTQ-identified people across the USA
https://lgbtbookstoprisoners.org/
Prisoners Literature Project @prisonerlitproj.bsky.social The Prisoners Literature Project is an inclusive, all-volunteer, grassroots nonprofit whose purpose is to encourage reading, the pursuit of knowledge, and self-determination among incarcerated people in the U.S. http://prisonlit.org
Violet Fox 🦊 @violetbfox.bsky.social The Frank Grimes of librarianship. She/her. https://violetbfox.info/
Prison Book Program @prisonbookprogram.bsky.social Sending free books to people in prison since 1972.
Jeffrey Ian Ross @jeffreyianross.bsky.social Criminologist @ubaltmain #corrections #CrimesofthePowerful #StreetCulture #graffiti #streetart #police Co-founder #ConvictCriminology Website www.jeffreyianross.com Instagram http://buff.ly/2Se7geg Amateur Japanese Chef bit.ly/4f2XEtX
Roger Weaver @rogerweaver.bsky.social Librarian, writer, bookseller, and Type-3 trouble maker
Common Notions Press @commonnotions.bsky.social Nonprofit, movement-based, and worker-run publisher of books that provide timely reflections, clear critiques, and inspiring strategies that amplify movements for social justice.
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Davis Books to Prisoners @books2prisoners.bsky.social 
Seven Stories Press @sevenstories.bsky.social Political non-fiction, world literature, social justice children’s books, and other works of the radical imagination ✨
sevenstories.com
Freedom Reads @freedomreads.bsky.social Countering with literature what prison does to the spirit. Freedom begins with a book.
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Charlotte West @charlottewest.bsky.social Education journalist covering prisons for @opencampus.bsky.social. Sign up for College Inside, my newsletter about the intersection of criminal justice and higher education: https://www.opencampusmedia.org/college-inside/
Lesley Bikos @lbikos.bsky.social PhD Sociology, assistant prof., policing, prison industrial complex, criminalization, abolition. Co-liberation, community, radical love for. the. win. she/they
Alex Winter @alexwinter.com Trans Rights are Human Rights.
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Tina Vasquez @tinavasquez.bsky.social Features Editor & Immigration Reporter @prismreports.org | co-founder @theflytrapmedia.com | tina@prismreports.org
eve6 @eve6.bsky.social We live under an alternative rock http://mylinx.cc/eve6
Tanya Erzen @terzen.bsky.social Professor at Univ. Puget Sound, Founder Freedom Education Project Puget Sound (fepps.org), Author of books on faith based groups in prisons; the ex-gay movement; feminism and the Twilight series; and the quality of life campaign in NYC
Karen Franklin, PhD @karenfranklin.bsky.social Forensic psychologist, San Francisco Bay. Former journalist + criminal investigator. #PsychLaw
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Amanda Knox @amandaknox.com Exoneree, host of Hard Knox podcast, author of Free: My Search for Meaning. One woman comedy show, Cartwheel, at the Edinburgh Fringe Aug 7-17.
www.amandaknox.substack.com
Sarah Salcedo @sarah-salcedo.com Filmmaker, author, illustrator, artisanal astro-hobbit
BendFilm: Basecamp Fellow | Tin House & Stowe Story Labs | Town Hall Seattle Writer-in-Residence ‘22 | SFWA |
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Erica Lee @americalee.bsky.social Campaigns 🇺🇸 EEO Investigator 🔍 Author 📚 Folsom Prison 👥 Cirque du Soleil 🎪 Cancer🔬Xennial | #M4A #GND #BLM #UBI
Joshua B. Hoe @joshuabhoe.bsky.social Sr. Policy Manager at Dream.Org, Host of the Decarceration Nation Podcast (on hiatus). Formerly Incarcerated.
Kevin Gosztola @kgosztola.bsky.social Journalist. Editor of The Dissenter Newsletter which covers press freedom, whistleblowing, and government secrecy (https://thedissenter.org)
prince egregious, heir apparent @sonofahurricane.bsky.social ai (“eye”.) zie/hir ("zee"/"hear".) 33. reference jester, reluctant organizer, wannabe political educator. PIC abolitionist trying to learn to live finally.
lelu @lelulololol.bsky.social Black Lives Matter ✨ She/her
LeVar Burton @levarburton.bsky.social Kunta, Geordi, Reading Rainbow guy. Flies twice as high… #bydhttmwfi
Kay Canal @kaycanal.bsky.social Unquenchable thirst for knowledge. Big reader. Still waiting 4 ERA. Furious at prison industrial complex & Americans' denial of death. Photographer. PNW native. I believe that nature heals.
Katy advised me to go outside & see what the birds are doing...
Rae Louise 💚💜 4 CJR. moral 🧭⬇️ @raelouise.bsky.social Social injustices,1st chances, sentencing reform,prison reform,police reform #wrongfullyconvicted #innocencematters #endIPPsentences #endsolitary
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Beth Shelburne @bshelburne.bsky.social Journalist, writer, teacher, podcaster. Mama, wife, pal to assorted humans. Mostly brave except with roaches.
Liberation Library @liberationlib.bsky.social We provide books and reader-led magazines to young people in prison to encourage imagination, self-determination, and connection to the outside worlds of their choosing. #FreeThemAll
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Appalachian Prison Book Project (APBP) @appalachianpbp.bsky.social We send free books and provide educational opportunities to people incarcerated in Appalachia. 📖 https://appalachianprisonbookproject.org
Richard Bond @ribond.bsky.social Reader of everything, but mostly fantasy and Sci fi. Ex Microsoft. Dad of two.
www.bookstoprisoners.net
Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app 3 dogs. 2 kitchens. Zero chill. | Lawyer | Journalist | Host of B*tch, Listen podcast | abortion rights are, like, 80% of my personality | skeets are the opinion of your employer. | Colorado, America🏳️🌈
Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social Independent journalist.
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Kim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social freelance labor journalist & author. big on heavy metal, workers, tattoos, cold places, and Philly. do no harm, take no shit 🏴
my books/email: www.kim-kelly.com
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Josie Duffy Rice @jduffyrice.bsky.social inside fishsticks outside tarter sauce
Jeremy Scahill @jeremyscahill.com Journalist at @DropSiteNews.com. Author of Blackwater and Dirty Wars. Former twitter combatant. Proton: jeremy@dropsitenews.com
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
Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social Solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.
Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social Journalist. Quattrone Center journalism fellow.
Author: Rise of the Warrior Cop.
Co-author: The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist.
New podcast: Collateral Damage
Substack: radleybalko.substack.com
Signal: radleybalko.52
pdx law grrrl @pdxlawgrrrl.bsky.social Attorney. Posting about criminal legal issues, immigration, and protests.
@pdxlawgrrrl on all platforms: https://linktr.ee/pdxlawgrrrl
Scott Hechinger @scotthech.bsky.social Civil rights attorney. Longtime public defender. Dad. Executive Director, Zealous. Supporting local coalitions to tell more compelling stories and work better together.
My org: https://ZEALO.US
Eve L. Ewing @eveewing.bsky.social I’m a Chicagoan and a prof and I write a lot of things like books [Original Sins, Electric Arches, 1919, Ghosts in the Schoolyard, Maya and the Robot] and comics [X-Men, Black Panther, Ironheart] and more + I love my dog so so much
Molly Crabapple @mollycrabapple.bsky.social Artist. Author of NY Times bestseller HERE WHERE WE LIVE IS OUR COUNTRY: STORY OF THE JEWISH BUND
my book: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/646320/here-where-we-live-is-our-country-by-molly-crabapple/
Mollycrabapple.com
Mollycrabapple.substack.com
Dan Berger @dnbrgr.bsky.social Author of PRISON: INCARCERATION AND THE MAKING OF AMERICA, coming March 2027
Other books include STAYED ON FREEDOM, CAPTIVE NATION, & more
Doing things with Washington Prison History Project.
www.danberger.info | www.waprisonhistory.org
micah @micahh.bsky.social 
Rebecca Kavanagh @drrjkavanagh.bsky.social Public Defender (NYC & Baltimore) & Writer. Sydney ✈️ NYC + DC. she/her. Views my own. “I can't believe what you say, because I see what you do.” James Baldwin
Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app Theoretical Astro/Physicist:
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Black & Pink National @blackandpinkorg.bsky.social Fighting for prison abolition via advocacy, support, & organizing for LGBTQ+ folks & PLWH who are system impacted | Directors Tena Hahn Rodriquez & Jasmine Tasaki 
Keri Blakinger @keribla.bsky.social Reporter: ProPublica. Author: Corrections in Ink. Priors: LA Times, Houston Chron, Marshall Project. Journalist, felon. (I promise I don't bite)
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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The Appeal @theappeal.org We are a worker-run newsroom reporting on the harms of the criminal legal system.
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social I co-host #VibeCheckPod. Also, I teach creative writing at Harvard Medical School.
BOOKS: Prelude to Bruise, How We Fight for Our Lives, Alive at the End of the World.
My next book HOME OUT THERE comes out in May.
I live in Cambridge, MA. 🦃
John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social Professor at Fordham Law. Prisons and criminal justice quant. I'm not contrarian, the data are. Author of Locked In. New stuff at johnfpfaff.com.
Victoria Law @victorialaw.bsky.social Freelance journalist & author. Latest book: CORRIDORS OF CONTAGION: How the Pandemic Exposed the Cruelties of Incarceration (Haymarket, 2024). https://linktr.ee/victorialaw
Tananarive Due - The Reformatory @tananarivedue.bsky.social Lifewriting Podcast - Exec Producer #HorrorNoire: A History of Black Horror, Writer: Twilight Zone. UCLA Lecturer. Vanity Fair. Author: American Book Award #BLM #blacksky She/Her - https://linktr.ee/tananarivedue
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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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
ProPublica @propublica.org Investigative journalism in the public interest. Headlines and (sometimes literal) receipts.
propublica.org
Alex Steed @alexsteed.bsky.social Co-Host of You Are Good and The OC, Again. Manager for folks in the arts. Bewildered person. Picture taker. Zine-maker (High Occulture). Activist. Into being.
Prison Policy Initiative @prisonpolicy.org Challenging mass incarceration and over-criminalization through research, advocacy, and organizing. Get email updates: https://prisonpolicy.org/subscribe/
Prism @prismreports.org An independent, nonprofit newsroom that goes where justice requires.
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Dylan Flesch @dylanflesch.bsky.social Organizing with For the People Leftist Library Project and NYC PLAN. Day job in the archives at New York Public Radio. Views my own. He/him.
brian nam-sonenstein @bson.bsky.social senior editor & researcher @prisonpolicy.org.
Chloe Cockburn @chloecockburn.bsky.social Advising donors on where to give money to end mass incarceration. Lawyer, painter, movement nerd. Substack: https://justimpact.substack.com/
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N. K. Jemisin @nkjemisin.bsky.social Writer. She/her.
Clint Smith @clintsmithiii.bsky.social Author of How the Word Is Passed, Above Ground, and Counting Descent. Writer, The Atlantic.
Craig Gilmore @craiggilmore.bsky.social abolitionist organizing // land & housing // books & music.
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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social Journalist & historian. Pub musician. Dad. Husband. Fishing obsessed. I also do dishes. Order: #ThePublicScholar - https://tinyurl.com/thepublicscholar.
EveryLibrary @everylibrary.bsky.social Let's support America's libraries. America's Library PAC.
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Piper Kerman @piperk.bsky.social Ink-stained wretch. Celtics fan ☘️. #OITNB. 
Bianca Tylek @biancatylek.bsky.social Executive Director at Worth Rises | The prison industry hates me. It’s mutual. Comfortable in conflict. | Views my own
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
mayaschenwar.com
Shannon Heffernan @shannonheffernan.bsky.social Journalist covering prisons, jails and more for The Marshall Project. Formerly WBEZ (Chicago NPR affiliate). Host of Motive podcast (Season 4). Writes short stories and essays. Tips: sheffernan@themarshallproject.org
Heather Ann Thompson @historianheather.bsky.social Pulitzer Prize winning author, book on Attica, next on Bernie Goetz/80s, then MOVE Bombing. In NYT, TIME, New Yorker, Atlantic, etc. + CJ policy work & script consulting. WritersHouse & CAA repped.
www.heatherannthompson.com
Em | Books Not Prisons @booksnotprisons.bsky.social Prison-hating queer librarian organizing in the bayou city. they/them. (A). #CommunitiesNotCages
#AbolishTheDeathPenalty #FightToxicPrisons
Firestorm Books @firestorm.coop Queer feminist collective in Asheville, NC, operating a bookstore co-op & social movement space since 2008 on Tsalagi land. Ⓐ Ⓔ Ⓥ
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...
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