We were honored to join a powerful panel alongside Transgender Law Center for the NLGJA: The Association of LGBTQ+ Journalists Conference. We’ll be hosting a webinar to dive deeper into ethical trans queer migrant reporting practices through our "Guide for Reporting on Queer and Trans Migrants"! 🏳️‍⚧️📰

This is more than a coloring book—it's our love letter to Southern movement history. We present “Flowers for Our Elders: A Southern Movement Elder Coloring Book.” From time to time, we’ll be sharing pages from the coloring book on our social media. Meet movement elder Mandy Carter!

Victory! A federal judge has temporarily halted Georgia Senate Bill 185, calling the ban on gender-affirming care a violation of the 8th Amendment—a major win for incarcerated trans people in GA who deserve essential healthcare! Read from @atlpresscollective.com @ bit.ly/gasb185. 📸: Getty Images

Join us for our virtual Fact-Checking 101 training next month led by journalist & fact-checker, Siri! Learn how to spot mis/disinformation, how to ID appropriate sources & more. Register @ bit.ly/factchecktraining! 📅October 23 ⏰ 1:00-2:30pm ET / 12:00-1:30pm CT 🎟️ Pay what you can ($0-$125)

Movement journalists who report on the prison industrial complex should know about the resource, Incarceration Transparency. Explore research and data about incarceration in your state at IncarcerationTransparency.org.

Today ICE killed Silverio Villegas-Gonzalez, an immigrant in Chicago who was shot during an enforcement operation. DHS' press release about his death focused on the agency's claim that ICE agents have seen a "1000% increase in assaults against them."

According to @aljazeera.com, as of August 25, 2025, at least ⁠278 mostly Palestinian journalists & media workers have been killed since Israel escalated its genocide in Gaza after October 7, 2023.⁠ We honor their lives by continuing our mission of uncovering injustices through storytelling.

“Defeatism has no place in liberation." -Mireille Fanon Mendès-France Fanon's anti-imperialist writings & fight against Nazis remain a guide for challenging fascism & white supremacy today. Read @truthout.org’s interview w/ Fanon Mendès-France @ bit.ly/FightAgainstFascism. 📸: Getty Images

Repost from @politicswithnj’s TikTok: “The Administration has just announced that they will be deploying the National Guard to nearly 20 new states. Watch this video to see if yours is one of the states listed. #politicswithnj”

Cop City RICO motions hearings Sept. 8, 2025, live thread. Live video stream: www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJvX...

The local chapter of Mothers for Ceasefire launched a week-long solidarity fast to protest Israel’s blockade of aid to Gaza, where famine was declared last month.

Derek Trumbo: “We only make about 86 cents for a full day of labor. That means we have to work for eight days just to be able to afford a single package of commissary bacon.” Read about the exorbitant commissary food prices incarcerated people deal with @prismreports.org: bit.ly/baconbehindbars.

This #LaborDay, we honored Marvel Cooke: groundbreaking journalist & fierce labor organizer. She helped organize one of the first labor unions of journalists & exposed the exploitation of Black women domestic workers. ‪Read about her on @teenvogue.com @ bit.ly/MarvelCooke.

At our May Disability Reporting 101 training, @thesicktimes.org & @newdisabledsouth.org got us up to speed on disability reporting basics. We’re excited to share a few of their tips with you @ tinyurl.com/disabilityreportingtips! Art: Sins Invalid

This @teenvogue.com op-ed explains how elected officials are trying to rewrite the history of Southern oppressed groups now more than ever: tinyurl.com/holdourhistory. But we’re unwavering in our commitment to Southern social justice storytelling! 📸: Getty Images

🎙️Migrant communities and labor organizing are intrinsically connected says @malcriada.bsky.social. She draws a line from anti-immigrant movements of the 1920s to the present in her recent writing for @theprogressivemag.bsky.social and @inthesetimes.com. Listen here: www.wortfm.org/repatriation...

"I don’t see suffering as a zero-sum game. I want to think about what it means for us to elevate and care about the suffering and pain of men and boys without the inference that that means that women and girls aren’t suffering, too."

All too often, mainstream media will cover a policy decision and stop there. It’s independent media that follows up and explores the impact on people’s lives. @capitalb.bsky.social Rural Issues Reporter @aallyahpatrice.bsky.social shares why inclusive, nuanced storytelling matters: bit.ly/3UtMh67

Press On is a Southern media collective that catalyzes change & advances justice through the practice of movement journalism. We are rooted in & practicing solidarity with Southern oppressed communities. Let us know how you learned about Press On—we’re grateful to be in community with you!

A federal judge on Thursday ordered the shutdown of the so-called “Alligator Alcatraz” immigrant detention facility in the Florida Everglades, saying that the facility was doing significant damage to the ecosystem of the Everglades.

Southern queer wins, anti-ICE movements, solidarity with Gaza—we amplify silenced stories, but algorithms suppress us. We’re so close to 200 followers—if you believe in movement journalism, help us reach 200 by reposting this! Follow us on IG, too: instagram.com/presson_south

“College campuses can encourage students and professors to express themselves more freely by providing them a space to have their voices be heard,” says Abygail Simmons, a student at the University of Georgia. Hear from Abygail and other students here: pen.org/college-stud...

Richard Mafundi Lake (1940-2018) embodied the principles of both Black August and movement journalism. He was punished for simply speaking truth to power. Honor Mafundi’s memory by reading his story at bit.ly/mafundi. 📸: The Burning Spear

Only three more days to register for our pay what you can two-part virtual workshop, Raising Your Voice: Crafting a Powerful First-Person Narrative, with Dio of the Narrative Sovereignty Project! 📅 8/28 & 9/10 🔗 Register by 8/21: bit.ly/raisingyourvoice

Repost from The News Guild’s IG: “Press freedom groups around the world have demanded accountability and we echo their call: there must be an independent investigation, and those responsible must be prosecuted. Read the full statement on: newsguild.org”

As the Israeli army confirms plans to invade Gaza City and occupy it, Palestinians have to decide whether to endure another cycle of displacement or stay and risk being killed. While some plan to evacuate, others are done following orders. mondoweiss.net/2025/08/they... #Palestine #Israel

Next month, September 4-7, join Press On in ATL at the NLGJA’s annual national convention @nlgjaofficial.bsky.social‬, one of the largest gatherings of LGBTQ+ journalists & communicators! Come say, “hi,” and build with us! #NLGJA25

We’re inspired by messages of hope from the Global South shared by @yesmedia.bsky.social. We agree w/ this activist: “Storytelling is one of the strongest ways to build empathy, inspire action & bring people together.” Read more @ bit.ly/heartyhope. 📸: Flickr

Cities nationwide have instituted non-police alternate response programs, but Chapel Hill is among the relatively small number that includes practitioners with their own lived experience with mental health challenges to respond to people in crisis.

"ALL EYES ON GAZA: With an impending ground invasion, the occupation deliberately targeted Aljazeera’s media tent in Al-Shifa hospital today, killing journalists Anas al-Sharif, Mohammed Quraiqa, and three other crew members..." Read the Palestinian Youth Movement's full post at bit.ly/alleyesongaza

I'm grateful to @pressonsouth.bsky.social for this two-part workshop about crafting a powerful, first person narrative, facilitated by the brilliant Dio Roberson. I think we've largely lost the plot on how op-eds function & what their purpose is—and Dio can show you the way!

Georgia is quietly working on building the largest ICE facility in the country, thanks to Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill.” Charlton County approved a $50 million agreement with ICE to expand the Folkston ICE Processing Center from 1,100 detainees to nearly 3,000.

“The only organization that really was able to mobilize and help quickly was Triangle Mutual Aid,” Crystal said.

Feeling silenced in your storytelling journey? Join our two-part virtual workshop, “Raising Your Voice: Crafting a Powerful First-Person Narrative,” with Dio of the Narrative Sovereignty Project!! 📅 8/28 & 9/10 🔗 bit.ly/raisingyourvoice

“Safeguard the Flame,” an event that took place in Houston, TX in March, drew connections between prison riots in the U.S., hunger strikes in Palestine & resistance movements across the world while centering revolutionary art & media. Read about it from Scalawag: bit.ly/safeguardtheflame.

Journalist Mario Guevara is at risk of being deported for exercising freedom of the press & keeping Atlanta’s Spanish-speaking communities informed. We demand his immediate release from ICE. Read more from @us.theguardian.com at tinyurl.com/freemarioatl. Photo: Erik S Lesser/EPA

Join me in pausing all of your regularly scheduled content tomorrow, August 1st to make room for Gaza’s voices to be heard. Instead, post a picture of an empty bowl to show your solidarity. bit.ly/gazaisstarving We won’t feed the algorithm while Gaza starves. #FeedGazaNow

Feeling silenced in your storytelling journey? Join our two-part virtual workshop, “Raising Your Voice: Crafting a Powerful First-Person Narrative,” with Dio of the Narrative Sovereignty Project!! 📅 8/28 & 9/10 🔗 bit.ly/raisingyourvoice

Fargo Nissim Tbakhi’s debut poetry collection excavates the imperialist settler texts structuring our lives.

Aging and seriously ill individuals in North Carolina prisons often pose minimal safety risks, yet remain incarcerated at a high cost, with many deemed ineligible for medical release under recent reforms. boltsmag.org/north-c...

Dear lovers of Black feminist writing: Don’t miss SISTORIES lit magazine’s day of conversations & workshops on 8/8, “Fluid By Nature: Texture, Memory and Ecology of the Black South,” virtual & in-person in Charlotte, N.C.! Get your ticket @ linktr.ee/fluidbynature. Images: SISTORIES’ IG

Without the performance of objectivity, we can create journalism that is purposeful and even inspiring. Honored to interview @erininthemorning.com @mayaschenwar.bsky.social and @mskellymhayes.bsky.social for @objectivejournos.bsky.social about how it's done objectivejournalism.org/2025/07/stor...

Durham, NC’s HEART program has responded to 30,000+ calls about mental health crises & public safety issues since starting in 2022. Community alternatives to police work yet continue to be underfunded. Read about it @prismreports.org: tinyurl.com/durhamheart. Images: Cornell Watson & durhamnc.gov

While Florida attempts to ban books and rewrite history, youth are fighting back—by archiving marginalized artists on Wikipedia. Meet the Gen Z archivists preserving underrepresented Miami art in this @prismreports.org story: bit.ly/archivingart. Photo: Nicole Combeau

"The Iranian state and its prisons are a nightmare, but Israel is not our savior. Their bombs do not liberate us. Their rainbow flags do not protect us. Their “queer rights” propaganda means nothing when they are killing queer people alongside everyone else.”

@penamerica.bsky.social repost: Banned books that center disabilities have an outsized impact, this #DisabilityPrideMonth we've curated a reading list of banned books with characters who are neurodivergent or who have a physical, learning, or developmental disability: bookshop.org/lists/disabi...

In honor of Black Women’s Equal Pay Day last week, we’re lifting up a @mlk50.com story about how Black women workers in Memphis organized for higher wages during the Great Depression. Read about these unsung heroines at bit.ly/EqualPay4All. Images: Dig Memphis & The Commercial Appeal archives.

Waffle House workers are sharing their stories as part of a ‪@raiseupthesouth.bsky.social‬ campaign, demanding an end to wage theft & to be paid back wages. Sign their petition at tinyurl.com/insolidarityforever.

Wednesday, July 16 6-8 PM ET: We invite journalists/media makers to join us and IC Fellow @lewispants.bsky.social in this virtual space to talk about ways of keeping our sources safer and reducing the risk of surveillance, doxxing, and harassment: www.interruptingcriminalization.com/events/all/r...

Cayla Calhoun left Alabama seeking safety as a trans woman. Instead, she was nearly killed on D.C.’s streets, and now she refuses to stay silent.