Abolitionists and Justice Warriors
Throughout the last 25 years, I’ve met — online and IRL — many extraordinary abolitionist and justice organizers, activists, strategists, authors, journalists, artists, professors and even politicians who’ve dedicated their lives to fighting for liberation. These are some. Non exhaustive.
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@empowermentave.bsky.social
A collective committed to the radical act of fairly paying incarcerated writers + artists for their work. Build with us: hello@empowermentave.org
@talilalewis.bsky.social
multilingual abolitionist, artist, educator, writer, movement strategist, community lawyer | proud legacy of the Black Southern griot & recitation traditions | orator-signer-writer-storyteller | www.talilalewis.com
@ethnography911.bsky.social
Quick! Somebody call an anthropologist! Assoc prof @ Northwestern. MedAnthro. African studies. Pop culture. Politics. She/her. book: http://goo.gl/fZalMo
@awinston.bsky.social
Investigative Reporter. Criminal Justice/Privacy/XRW. Book: THE RIDERS COME OUT AT NIGHT. WIRED/Guardian/Vanity Fair/BBC/Popular Front/Rolling Stone/elsewheres https://bleeding-edge.ghost.io/ Ali.winston@protonmail.com Awinston.17 on Signal
@dnbrgr.bsky.social
Writer of words, hater of prisons Author of STAYED ON FREEDOM: THE LONG HISTORY OF BLACK POWER THROUGH ONE FAMILY’S JOURNEY, plus other things. www.danberger.info | www.waprisonhistory.org
@petramolnar.com
#Bordertech ethnographies | Author of The Walls Have Eyes | @refugeelab.ca + @migrationtechmonitor.com, York | Faculty Associate with Berkman Klein Center, Harvard | She/ هي 🇵🇸🍉| https://petramolnar.com/
@chanda.bsky.social
Assoc. Prof.: Theoretical Cosmology and Particle Physics ⚛️ 🔭 & Black Feminist Science Studies 🧪 Writer 📚: #DisorderedCosmos #EdgeOfSpaceTime #CosmosIsABlackAesthetic Web: chanda.science all Black/all Jewish. queer/agender/woman. Posts by/for me🖖🏽
@thellpsx.bsky.social
writer,The Future Is Disabled,Care Work,Bodymap,Dirty River co-ed w/@ejeris of Beyond Survival. transformative & disability justice structural engineer,1/3rd of http://cripsforesimsforgaza.org. older cousin w great tits & opinions,they/we brownstargirl.org
@dylanrodriguez.bsky.social
i'm a teacher, scholar, collaborator, organizer, and parent, among other things. i work at the monstrous University of California under the title of Distinguished Professor.
@harshawalia.bsky.social
Border and Rule (2021) & Undoing Border Imperialism (2013). Sikh. Inquilab. (she/her). Hard on issues, soft on people. Antidote to despair is collective struggle. New here - mostly find me IRL organizing, in internationalist collectives & networks.
@miamingus.bsky.social
transformative justice. disability justice. pandemics. abolition. (she/her) https://leavingevidence.wordpress.com https://www.soiltjp.org
@blackamazon.bsky.social
Here to hold my name . She/her / yourgorgoness - Far Rock’s finest - expert of miscellany -master of “SON!?” - writer - Senior Fellow - Oracle at Dead ass
@jesspish.bsky.social
she/her Book on sheriffs & democracy https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/707263/the-highest-law-in-the-land-by-jessica-pishko/ Repped by @rhaliterary DM for Signal or email jesspish@gmail.com “Women aren’t typically this crazy about politics.”
@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/
@hammerandhope.bsky.social
"I'm so grateful Hammer and Hope exists. True Black leftist literary dispatches." - dream hampton. Free to read. Help sustain our work and become a member. 🙏🏽 https://linktr.ee/hammerandhope
@elizaorlins.bsky.social
Career public defender • Survivor & Amazing Racer • Fueled by rage at injustice • she/her
@charlenecarruthers.bsky.social
she|her, Writer, Educator, Filmmaker, and recovering community organizer. Also, PhD Candidate in Black Studies at Northwestern University. www.charlenecarruthers.com
@jaillawspeak.bsky.social
⛓️ The only solution is abolition! 🔥 #BurnThePrisons 📚 Cashapp $ arebelsworld ✊🏾 Venmo @ arebelsworld 🌍 JailhouseLawyersSpeak.com 🏠 givebutter.com/jls-housingcenter Contact: jailhouselawyersspeak@protonmail.com
@prisonpolicy.org
Challenging mass incarceration and over-criminalization through research, advocacy, and organizing. Get email updates: https://prisonpolicy.org/subscribe/
@therealmrfive.bsky.social
Activist - Organizer - BlackPantherPartyCUB - Artist - Mental Health Advocate- Credible Messenger- Juvenile Injustice My work builds safe spaces for Justice impacted Young Adults
@nicoledporter.bsky.social
Senior Director of Advocacy @sentencingproject.bsky.social | #Htown 🤘🏾🖤| #LIBERATION✊🏾playlist http://rb.gy/6dacdn | #AKA1908💕💚 💕
@kdc.bsky.social
Born to be Synclaire, forced to be Maxine. Accessibility and disability justice by day, Zine stuff at @wildramppublishing.bsky.social by night. Random fangirling throughout. https://linktr.ee/KeidraC Profile ID: Black woman with red twists
@hilaryagro.bsky.social
Resources here! ➡️ linktr.ee/hilaryagro Anthropology PhD candidate at UBC. I think capitalism is bad and dr*gs are good. Land Back. Is Gaeilgeoir mé 💚 she/her
@reuvenblau.bsky.social
Senior Reporter at THE CITY. Co-author of "Rikers: An Oral History." Denver native.
@drharmony.net
✊Traumatologist. Activist. Sex & Psyche Healer. Alchemist Artist. The Real Resistance Kitty. Leadership Coach. Lupus Warrior. Revolution 2025 field commander. I fight fascism with glitter, science, and a very sharp tongue. 🐾
@psfrench.bsky.social
reporting on prisons, DAs, & people working to change the criminal legal system with @bolts.bsky.social freelance magazine work: NYRB, NY mag, Aperture, Lux, Drift, Nation @ los angeles, mostly piperstrehlowfrench@gmail.com -> psfrench.com en/es/fr
@theappeal.org
We are a worker-run newsroom reporting on the harms of the criminal legal system. You can support our work here: https://theappeal.org/donate/ Sign up for our newsletter: https://theappeal.org/newsletter-subscribe/
@iwriteok.bsky.social
I am the host of Behind the Bastards and overlord of podcasts at Cool Zone Media
@stefkaufman.bsky.social
Anti-carceral community care practitioner. Mad/Disabled psychiatric survivor. Mother. Birth/death/crisis worker. white Boricua Jewish sangoma. Director @projectlets.
@jonhutson.bsky.social
Writer, dog lover, cat lover, and human rights advocate. My personal takes. Read my stories on race, law, and human rights: https://www.salon.com/writer/jonathan-hutson
@palumboliu.bsky.social
Professor at Stanford, activist, writer, podcaster (Speaking Out of Place). https://speakingoutofplace.com/ Board of Directors, Truthout. Words in Jacobin, The Nation, Al Jazeera. Book from Haymarket. Views proudly my own.
@leftistlawyer.com
@mistymotors.net's wife. Proudly trans pay-whatever-you-can attorney in IL. No legal advice here, not your lawyer. She/her. If you like my work, buy me a coffee! https://ko-fi.com/theleftistlawyer
@shelledione.bsky.social
Oakland CA based photo+writer journalist independent blog @ Classic8Media.com Political-sociology-philosophy & stories 40+ years in Bay Area 20 yrs blogging 18 years photography 10 years publishing, doc & research shelledione@classic8media.com
@ardathjean.bsky.social
Sociology Prof. Suburban Dad. Health literacy is radical & fascism is terrible. I wrote about a book about abolition, forensic psych & domestic homicide and you can find it here: https://fernwoodpublishing.ca/book/insurgent-love
@jlusa.org
Celebrating over 10 years of educating, elevating, and empowering justice-impacted leaders! #OurExperienceIsOurExpertise jlusa.org
@timothywelbeck.bsky.social
Director, Center for Anti-Racism, Temple University | Civil Rights Attorney, CAIR Philadelphia | Believer. Husband. Father. www.timothywelbeck.com
@davidleegarlock.bsky.social
Formerly Incarcerated Criminal Justice Advocate and Public Speaker
@joshsbicca.bsky.social
Author | Dreamer | Builder Associate Professor of Sociology | Director of the Prison Agriculture Lab https://joshuasbicca.com | https://prisonagriculture.com/
@socprofjones.bsky.social
Writer. Teacher. Queer Black Momma. Next book: Brutal & Routine, on the enduring legacy of racist policing and the promise of abolitionist dreams
@tbh1910.bsky.social
Co-founder ArchCity Defenders. Civil rights and criminal defense attorney working with movements to support transformational change. Cat loving abolitionist and national non-profit survivor.
@worthrises.bsky.social
Dismantling the prison industry and ending the exploitation of those it targets.
@drsubini.bsky.social
DisCrit-Critical Educator-Black Asian Feminist exploring intersections, searching for Justice-Yogini-Tweets=mine. She/Her Author-Pedagogy of Pathologization 🍉
@thejosevilson.com
The educator Gotham deserves. @educolor.org ED. Sociologist studying teacher professionalism and work, community builder, former NYC math teacher, and best-selling author of This Is Not A Test. NBCT. Join the movement 👇🏾 thejosevilson.com/newsletter
@aramsinn.bsky.social
SFF/Nonfiction Author Media Prof at American U Bassist/Producer (jazz, reggae, worldbeat) 💙📚THE SECRET LIFE OF DATA 💿 OUT OF OUR CELLS: Songs by Incarcerated Musicians in DC sinnreich.com https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262048811/ linktree.com/wassako
@hebagowayed.bsky.social
Sociology Prof at CUNY (Hunter & Grad Center) sharing her own thoughts. Maker of resistance humus. Author of REFUGE. Now writing on the violence & COST OF BORDERS. she/هي https://linktr.ee/hebagowayed لسه عايزين عيش حريه و عداله اجتماعية
@ahouse4all.bsky.social
LA. Mutual aid, my dog, social housing, and organizing the working class. Married to my husband and revolution. I write sometimes. Views strong + my + my own.
@abolitionistlawcenter.org
ALC is a movement lawyering and organizing project that defends human rights and challenges incarceration and other state & structural violence abolitionistlawcenter.org
@angelalang8.bsky.social
She/Her Executive Director of Black Leaders Organizing for Communities (BLOC). Always an organizer. Views are my own.
@kwhitlock.bsky.social
Writer. Activist. Co-author "Queer (In)Justice: The Criminalization of LGBT People in the United States"
@julesboykoff.bsky.social
Political scientist. Poetry enthusiast. Author of What Are the Olympics For? (Bristol UP 2024); The 1936 Berlin Olympics (Common Ground 2023); NOlympians (Fernwood 2020); Power Games: A Political History of the Olympics (Verso 2016). www.julesboykoff.org
@sdonziger.bsky.social
Advocate, writer & public speaker on human rights and corporate accountability. Lawyer on team that won historic $9.5b judgment against Chevron.
@vashetc.bsky.social
ph.d. perpetually horizontal. writer, researcher. ✍🏽 v ash e t c [dot] com — vashetc.com profile ID: brown person poses in wheelchair in front of a wall of pink paperflowers. banner: lake & mntn @ sunset. There’s a silhouette of a family in the water
@ahoagfordjour.bsky.social
Associate Prof & Co-Dir Center for Criminal Justice at Brooklyn Law; 2024-25 Scholar in Residence @myconstitution.bsky.social; Death Penalty Info Center Board; NAACP LDF & FPD alum. https://www.brooklaw.edu/Contact-Us/Hoag-Fordjour-Alexis
@anoosh100.bsky.social
Organizer, writer, campaign manager. Queer 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️, brown ✊🏽, & disabled ♿️. Work with immigrants & youth. Lg: 🇬🇧🇪🇸🇫🇷🇸🇳 All work: bit.ly/m/link2Anoosh Political t-shirts: bonfire.com/store/downtown-angry-brown/ Parent. Armenian 🇦🇲 Filipinx 🇵🇭 American. ❤️🐕
@mjfree.bsky.social
Proud Girl Dad, TV Producer, Filmmaker, Vedic Meditation Practitioner, Kitesurfer, Human Rights & Racial Justice Advocate and an Abolitionist! And I don't act! 😆😆😆👻👻👻
@wihorne.bsky.social
Writer. Radical. Historian at UMD. PhD in History from GW. In Case of Emergency: https://tinyurl.com/mvmrcuvk. (he/him)
@diegoalcalapr.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Law, Afro-Latino, abolicionista, Puerto Rico será libre, teaching criminal law and criminal procedure while researching surveillance, law, technology, and decoloniality. Creando un mejor mundo con @amartinez-orabona.
@oniblackstock.bsky.social
Founder & ED @ HealthJustice • Primary care & HIV doc • Bio @ www.healthjustice.co/our-team/ • @akinfe.bsky.social’s life partner 🪷 • 👦🏿 & 🐶’s mama • Lenapehoking • she/her(s)/yeye• #BlackMedSky #MedSky #HIVSky #PublicHealthSky
@elizabethweill.bsky.social
Reporter @theappeal.org. I report on prison and jail conditions and wrongful convictions, in particular Shaken Baby Syndrome cases. Tips: elizabeth@theappeal.org. Free Palestine. she/her
@silkys13.bsky.social
executive director, Detention Watch Network, author Unbuild Walls: Why Immigrant Justice Needs Abolition (Haymarket Books, 2024), from Texas, views my own book info/events: https://www.detentionwatchnetwork.org/unbuild-walls
@amistadlaw.bsky.social
Organizing to end mass incarceration in Pennsylvania. 📍Philly
@yeampierre.bsky.social
Afro-Indigenous Boricua mother, daughter, sister, wife, matriarch building for climate justice- walking with my ancestors 💚♥️🖤🇵🇷 🌻🐝🍯💛 my opinions are my own 🌻
@mayaschenwar.bsky.social
Director, Truthout Center for Grassroots Journalism. Board president, Truthout. Co-editor “We Grow the World Together: Parenting Toward Abolition” Co-author “Prison by Any Other Name” Abolitionist, anti-zionist, pro-cat, pro-karaoke mayaschenwar.com
@myharmreduction.bsky.social
Harm Reductionist. Drug Policy Reformer. Writer. Speaker. Lapsed Academic. Researcher-Advocate. Brown. She/Her/Dr.
@jbrownedianis.bsky.social
Movement Lawyer; Racial justice advocate. Exec. Dir, Advancement Project& APActionFund
@morgangodvin.bsky.social
Drug policy. Prisons and jails. Journalism. Research. Harm reduction. Veterans. Heart in Portland, skin under San Diego sun.
@nelini.bsky.social
Child actress to political organizer pipeline. Jedi Knight w/ @workingfamilies.org. Come for the politics stay for my pop culture hot takes. Bread and freaking roses!
@leximcmenamin.com
permanent Philadelphian in NYC news + politics editor @teenvogue.com member @transjournalists.org @leximcmenamin on twit/insta/tumblr linktr.ee/leximcmenamin
@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.
@hughryan.bsky.social
Author & queer historian. The Women’s House of Detention (2022) and When Brooklyn Was Queer (2019). I also teach nonfiction in the Bennington MFA program. Support my work: https://www.patreon.com/HughRyan
@linasrivastava.bsky.social
Founder, Center for Transformational Change. Strategist, producer, writer, traveler. https://linasrivastava.com https://transformationalchange.co She/her.
@mattytheglue.bsky.social
Director of “Reimagining Safety”, host of “Conversations for the People,” conflict resolution, abolish the police.
@blmdc.bsky.social
Centering Black people most at risk for state violence in DC, creating the conditions for Black Liberation through the abolition of systems and institutions of white supremacy, capitalism, patriarchy, and colonialism. NOT PART OF THE NATIONAL BLM ORG!
@upendmovement.org
Abolition movement to create a society in which the forcible separation of children from their families is no longer an acceptable intervention. upendmovement.org
@indigenia.bsky.social
Indigenous academic living and working on the original homelands of my ancestors. Nu’Eta & Hidatsa. Fort Berthold | MHA Nation | Indian Country I’m a Tribal College President fond of storytelling and green chile. All opinions are my own.
@dreanyc123.bsky.social
Black. Lesbian. Immigrant. Cofounder @interruptcrim.bsky.social Author #InvisibleNoMoreBook & #PracticingNewWorlds Co-author #NoMorePolice & Queer (In)Justice bit.ly/NoMorePolice bit.ly/PracticingNewWorlds InvisibleNoMoreBook.com andreajritchie.com
@aisforafro.bsky.social
Busy w/ Black Liberation | Award-Winning Political Strategist | Organizer | Writer | Podcaster | #TheLawAccordingToAmber Creator
@jennmjacksonphd.bsky.social
Abolitionist & political scientist who researches Black politics, feminism, gender & sexuality, policing, and threat. 🔗: linktr.ee/jennmjacksonphd 📚: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/673883/black-women-taught-us-by-jenn-m-jackson-phd/
@geauxgabrielle.bsky.social
John 3:16 | Founder of The Thurman Perry Foundation | Women’s Incarceration Expert | Political Commentator | Author: BAD GIRLS (coming soon)(Hachette) | Epidemiologist | Words: @WashingtonPost @ESSENCE #writingcommunity https://linktr.ee/gabrielleperrymph
@mspackyetti.bsky.social
the NY post once called me a “racial rabble rouser.” points for alliteration. writer. talker. strategist. activist. Black. loved. grateful. free. subscribe to #UNDISTRACTED wherever pods are 🙏🏾.
@awkwardduck.bsky.social
Big Mama. Work at the intersections of education (protecting public schools!) & abolition (new ways that actually address cycles of harm). 1L this Fall! Views & snark represent me and me alone.
@realcatbrooks.bsky.social
Executive Director, Justice Teams Network and @aptpaction.bsky.social | Host, Law & Disorder on KPFA Radio | Organizer, Strategist, Columnist, Artivist, and Playwright, Director and Actress | catbrooks.org
@jagdavies.bsky.social
founder & principal, Justice Communications political communications consultant working at the intersections of economic justice, housing policy, drug reform, policing & public health
@matthewhahn.com
Former prisoner. Dharma student. Union tradesman. Program facilitator for Mindful Prisons & Boundless Freedom Project. Sober since 2005. Hobbyist photographer. San Jose, CA. Kicked a divot out of Stalin’s grave. https://linktr.ee/MatthewHahn
@filmthepolicela.bsky.social
Hollow’s dad. Copwatcher specializing in LAPD accountability. FilmThePoliceLA.com
@ryanmarino.bsky.social
Human Doctor • Toxicology • Addiction • Emergency • #WTFentanyl & more often just WTF • drugs are misunderstood but people are misunderstood more • he/him • YouTube.com/@RyanMD • #MedSky
@prisonjournalism.bsky.social
An independent national nonprofit initiative that trains incarcerated writers in the tools of journalism and publishes their stories. https://bit.ly/4lbdmXU