NEW: @prismreports.org revised our guidelines to allow writers & reporters to send pitches centering U.S. imperialism and Palestine, regardless of a direct U.S. angle, because the consequences of U.S. policy and imperialism are global. prismreports.org/2025/07/04/w...

“We are each other’s best hope”: In a Q&A with Adryan Corcione, @mskellymhayes.bsky.social discusses her new anthology “Read This When Things Fall Apart,” (out now by @akpress.org) alongside movement work, navigating collective crises, & dealing with burnout.

‘Solidarity is always the way forward’: In a Q&A with @adryancore.bsky.social, abolitionist organizer @mskellymhayes.bsky.social discusses her new anthology “Read This When Things Fall Apart,” (pub. Nov. 4 by @akpress.org) featuring encouraging letters from movement leaders, writers, & activists.

“You can’t recognize what you need to unlearn until you’re in some way confronted with it.” In a Q&A with @adryancore.bsky.social, journalist & activist @lewispants.bsky.social discussed his new book “Radical Unlearning,” (@beaconpress.bsky.social) a guide for breaking free from harmful ideologies.

My publisher’s been very patient. I’m not doing everything I said I’d do to promote this book (out in a few weeks) because I’m an organizer in a city under federal attack. My days are full and emotionally exhausting. Any help getting the word out means a lot. It's a book people need right now.

TODAY!

I’m teaching a FREE writing workshop this Thurs 10/16 at 4pm est! Register here: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... #writing #writingworkshop #writingclass

"While I love creating new memories foremost, I equally love reminiscing on old memories. I attribute this to being a personal essayist and memoirist because ultimately, memory (or “remember when”-ing) is what informs my writing."

This is an Elliot sang stan account!

bookshop.org is having an anti-Prime day sale, here’s a list of some recommended books <3

happy Mean Girls day to all who celebrate

Hi, friends! I’m raising money for my next film, PANCAKE SKANK. It’s a fucksticks sci-fi friendship comedy we’re working hard on. If you want comps, it’s Scott Pilgrim meets Sorry to Bother You meets Streets of Fire. We’re raising money to pay our stellar team. Join us! pancakeskank.com

. @huffpost.com published my essay about how braiding my girlfriend’s hair helped me reclaim my femininity as an androgynous transgender person 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🫶🏻

"By the time I was 13, my hair became brittle. My mom didn’t need to do my hair anymore, because I did it myself. I internalized what she thought of my hair, the very physical feature I inherited from her that I once cherished." Read more in @huffpost.com.

rip Assata Shakur

"I internalized what she thought of my hair. I hadn’t left the house with my natural hair texture in years."

. @huffpost.com published my essay about how braiding my girlfriend’s hair helped me reclaim my femininity as an androgynous transgender person 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🫶🏻

Despite a 2021 requirement, immigration officials have stopped reporting the number of transgender people in their custody, @byadamrhodes.bsky.social reports. Advocates warn that the decision hampers efforts to ensure queer people’s safety in the nation’s escalating immigration detention regime.

the amount of times I type bluesky.com into my browser... I hope their stationary business is doing well

I really love Elliot Sang's term "performative pacifism" to describe the way people are selective in how they express pacifism/extend empathy for

🚨 PHONE ZAP! 🚨 Renee Skye McDaniel, a trans woman at north branch prison in MD, is facing serious safety threats. Call the warden + demand her safety be prioritized! Scripts + tips in post - let’s show she’s not alone <3 #ProtectTransWomen #FreeThemAll

Sanctuary cities, counties, and states are not immune from ICE's arrest & deportation agenda – but these policies DO make a difference in limiting the criminalization of immigration:

Wait Blue MAGA so-called influencers have giant group chats where they discuss taking dark money and organize to sabotage legit criticism of the party? No never, that’s not why I had to create a Blue MAGA bots moderation list. 🤣 www.wired.com/story/dark-m...

great video www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJz-...

this what I call my “accidentally abolitionist” shirt

a new friend of mine, who I met this summer, read this viral @filtermag.bsky.social article of mine years ago when it came out (!) long before we met

excited for my first read-through of @mskellymhayes.bsky.social's new book, READ THIS WHEN THINGS FALL APART for @prismreports.org! love seeing familiar names like @micahh.bsky.social, @bcmerchant.bsky.social, @mayaschenwar.bsky.social and more in there

I wrote about what a pen pal behind bars taught me about the internet and how we communicate. #transbehindbars #prisonabolition #prisonmail

"I feel like in this day and age, trans women, trans men, and LGBTQIA people, they need to be a little more bolder and they need to be more expressive and not allow people to take advantage of them, or to make them feel belittled or low." -Strawberry Hampton, an incarcerated Black trans woman

Are you a trans journalist trying to change your byline? You should check out this guide I have been writing for the last few months for @theopennotebook.bsky.social, which is full of tips/tricks from me and many other trans journalists. www.theopennotebook.com/2025/07/22/h...

Check out my latest story for @prismreports.org: a Q&A with the co-editors of the LIBERATION STORIES anthology, packed with movement lessons on narrative strategy and radical communications work.

(1/2) 📢 Mutual aid call for Renee, a Jewish trans woman incarcerated in MD! 📢 She’s raising $375 for basic needs like food, clothes, and electronics. 📬 Venmo: @razirazirazi Signal boost and support if you can 💖🦋 #transbehindbars

"I connected with other teenage girls who ran fan pages for their favorite pop stars: Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera, even fellow Avril Lavigne stans. We shared HTML tips on our websites, teaching each other through copied cover over AIM messages."

The NO COP CITY, NO COP WORLD anthology is available for free to download on @haymarketbooks.org. I interviewed the book's co-editors for @prismreports.org last month and can't recommend it enough! cc: @micahh.bsky.social

Bianca Tylek’s new book, “The Prison Industry,” reveals the companies that benefit from incarceration. Tamar Sarai spoke with Tylek of @worthrises.bsky.social on how readers can take action once understanding “how deeply entrenched & normalized corporate greed & exploitation have become.”

“No Cop City, No Cop World” doesn’t present a blueprint, but rather a source of inspiration for movements resisting the expansion of police power. Contributors include forest defenders, political prisoners, Indigenous activists, abolitionists, scholars, & more. prismreports.org/2025/05/20/n...

"Inspiration to fight is the key thing. I hope that the ingenuity of everyday people, of workers of all kinds, to devise these ways to struggle inspires everyone to ... dream up really bold new ways to fight."

Great work, @adryancore.bsky.social! #StopCopCity

In a roundtable with Prism, @micahh.bsky.social‬, ‪@kamaufranklin.bsky.social‬, & ‪@marpark.bsky.social‬, co-editors of “No Cop City, No Cop World” (@haymarketbooks.org) discuss the unique conditions that led to ATL's Cop City & strategies for fighting nationwide prismreports.org/2025/05/20/n...

"I connected with other teenage girls who ran fan pages for their favorite pop stars: Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera, even fellow Avril Lavigne stans. We shared HTML tips on our websites, teaching each other through copied cover over AIM messages."

SOURCE REQUEST: iso endocrinologist Reporting on a piece that explores the intersection of testosterone hormone therapy in cisgender men and trans/nonbinary/gnc people, focusing on the medical and cultural implications of testosterone as a controlled substance.

Do I know anyone who has made a personal homepage in recent years on NeoCities or Hot Glue? #sourcerequest

WHITE SMOKE!!!!!!

"For years, [the Bureau of Justice Statistics]'s [Prison Rape Elimination Act] studies have been the gold standard for research into sexual abuse in detention ... [T]hat entire body of research is being undermined, simply because the government hates trans people."

Nathan Fielder is the greatest performance artist of our time

new Elliot Sang video drop!

I interviewed @savrodgers.bsky.social about his documentary CHASING CHASING AMY (2023). Read on Broad Street Review.

"Passports exist to confirm identity, not reinforce rigid classifications. So why does the government still require an M or F? Sex isn’t always binary—intersex people exist, and biology is more complex than a simple M or F." @aridrennen.bsky.social

"...policy has escalated invasive cell searches, emboldened transphobic rhetoric, encouraged officers to abandon (already precariously implemented) protections like separate showers and pat-downs, and deepened a culture of isolation, fear, and grief." #transbehindbars

"Giving more personal information over to the government only expands the aspects of human life that the it can surveil, and potentially control." -Devon Price, author of Unmasking Autism and Unmasking for Life