If you need a boost this Friday you can give to Feed Durham, a scrappy mutual aid collective working to feed people affected by the cruel SNAP shutdown. My #RadicalUnlearning book launch was a fundraiser for them and there is a dire need: www.gofundme.com/f/standingin...

I love how the people in charge can do literal rape and pillage but they love to criminally prosecute people for swearing, mocking, and throwing sandwiches. Very neat stuff.

The firing of the award-winning political staff of @teenvogue.com is going to go down as another ‘wrong side of history’ move of this era. Shame on the magazine. What a bitter disappointment.

Time to take this down...and give the award back. Vogue and Conde Nast just dissolved the politics team at Teen Vogue.

During our authoritarian timeline, the focus shouldn’t be on how to change people’s minds. @lewispants.bsky.social says it should be on what conditions make it possible to let go of long held beliefs and ideologies and how to create them. @prismreports.org

Young people in NYC absolutely showed out and there should be 1000 articles and profiles about this. Because we have had to put up with 1000 MAGA diner stories for years now.

GET THIS BOOK BY @interruptcrim.bsky.social's @lewispants.bsky.social!!!!

Undoing the deeply internalized individualism that lives in most of us who grow up in capitalism is a massive undertaking of unlearning. @lewispants.bsky.social explains that this undertaking is indivisible from our efforts to build movements. @truthout.org

Join me in donating to Feed Durham as they continue their work to spread the culture of mutual aid and practices of real nourishment in our beautiful city. The crisis is escalating, but it is not new. At Feed Durham they have been preparing for this moment. www.gofundme.com/f/standingin...

Durham! Come through this weekend for my book launch party, an interactive Carnival of Unlearning, which will support Feed Durham, a mutual aid collective responding to the political food security crisis. www.lewispants.com for more info; or donate directly at gofundme.com/f/standinginthegap2025

Honoring my ancestors today and always with the work of unlearning and social movement, even when they would not approve. Honoring the Black feminist traditions that taught me to love as action, not as sentimental or idealized feeling. Happy Halloween! All hands on deck!

My argument for radical unlearning is not about inner change preceding outward-facing action. We change in relationships, in imperfect and ongoing ways, and we have the power to create conditions for change in ourselves and others. We change through action and presence. truthout.org/articles/in-...

Happy Pub Day to our Abolition Journalism Fellow @lewispants.bsky.social! 🎊 If you're in Durham, join the interactive book launch party (a carnival of unlearning, if you will) on Nov. 2! Make sure to pick up a copy of Radical Unlearning, and/or request it from your local library:

📚 EPISODE 223! 📚 In today’s episode, we discuss the book Radical Unlearning: The Art and Science of Creating Change from Within by @lewispants.bsky.social (and published by @beaconpress.bsky.social).

“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.

Happy #PublicationDay, @lewispants.bsky.social!🧠 RADICAL UNLEARNING is an accessible exploration into how we can use trauma psychology to unravel and transform our harmful beliefs. “Give this book to everyone you love who is stuck in a heartbreaking worldview.” — @adriennemareebrown.bsky.social

This is today at 4 pm CT!

Announcing a *special feature* at the Durham launch of my book next weekend: "dunk the author" in which I will get pelted with water balloons. Those who know me know I do NOT like being cold and wet. But this book is about pushing outside our comfort zones...and I'm taking it quite literally!

Funny that you don’t hear the phrase “heckler’s veto” so much these days

New resource⚡ How to Clean Up Copaganda We're pleased to share our new resource for journalists, communicators, and organizers responding to law enforcement disinformation. Check out this online guide written by IC Abolition Journalism Fellow @lewispants.bsky.social, here: bit.ly/CleanUpCopag...

In yesterday's training with @interruptcrim.bsky.social, @lewispants.bsky.social illuminated how the language of "peaceful protests" is essentially copaganda, as it can throw marginalized groups under the bus, as some of us are more likely to be seen as "aggressive" or "hostile" just for existing! 👀

My latest reprinted in @truthout.org.

I've been struggling with hopelessness and rage, but am about to release a whole book's worth of stories about how change is possible. So now I'm struggling with being an emotional imposter. And yet, I know these stories are true and I believe we shape the world by shaping our surroundings.

Looks like the news is out. May her memory be a blessing. Miss Major, Presente!

It's two weeks until my book's birthday and you can preorder now to help get it onto shelves! Mariame recommends calling your public library to request a copy, too. And: tour dates announced for Durham, Columbia, SC and Ann Arbor, MI www.lewispants.com

"One of the most insidious things about prison is that it tries to mute us. It can’t take our voices away, but it can make it harder for them to be heard...Amplifying our voices is empowering and powerful. And you can help by joining any number of advocacy efforts."

Talking to folx in prison reminds me that people have been living with extreme authoritarian conditions, including censorship and denial of trans health care, prior to this moment. Let's listen when they tell us how to get through it and what they need. #solidarity truthout.org/articles/bei...

We will be holding a CaRNiVAL of UnLEaRnING to launch my new book in Durham on November 2, 2-5 p.m. Come for the whack-a-mole, stay for the community building towards radical change! Other events to be announced soon! More information here: www.lewispants.com

🗓️ Oct. 15 at 3-4 PM ET online: Please join us for a discussion of how to advance narratives that undermine authoritarianism and increase solidarity, featuring @dreanyc123.bsky.social, @lewispants.bsky.social, and @deanspade.bsky.social! Register: www.interruptingcriminalization.com/events/all/f...

Join me, @dreanyc123.bsky.social and @deanspade.bsky.social for a discussion on criminalization, copaganda, and narratives of solidarity. Oct 15 on the Zooms. 3 EST. www.interruptingcriminalization.com/events/all/f...

"It's easy to feel powerless in here. I try to fight that." "We aren't the monster in the dark that people need to fear. The monster people need to fear walks in the light and sits in a White House. History will reflect the veracity of my words." #Florida #USA #Healthcare #Incarceration

I assume that we won't get Surgeon General reports about the epidemic of white men shooting people and sociological studies about where their fathers are?

After the death of Charlie Kirk Wall Street Journal ran with an unverified law enforcement bulletin and amplified a right-wing narrative. I wrote about what they did wrong and why it matters for @objectivejournos.bsky.social. objectivejournalism.org/2025/09/wall...

This forthcoming book by my comrade and friend @lewispants.bsky.social is so good and it's so timely. People should pre-order 2 copies one for yourself and another for a friend or ask your local library to purchase it. www.beacon.org/Radical-Unle...

September 15 at 3 PM ET: If you're a journalist or media maker concerned about criminalization, join us and IC Abolition Journalism Fellow @lewispants.bsky.social at our next online space to share strategies, connect, and build networks of support: www.interruptingcriminalization.com/events/all/m...

If you're a journalist, media maker, or communicator looking for one-on-one support or thought partnership, we also offer Abolition Media Office Hours (available on Wednesdays and Thursdays this fall) staffed by @lewispants.bsky.social! Learn more and make an appointment:

Really interesting new research from Pew about how U.S.-ians view journalists. I'm fascinated by the tension between "advocating for communities" and "political beliefs"...https://www.pewresearch.org/journalism/2025/08/20/how-do-americans-think-journalists-should-act/

This is a book for our times! I am so proud of what Lewis had created and cannot recommend this book any more highly! Preorder this book. You will not be sorry. Ask your public libraries to do so too.

Everything might *feel* terrible, but we absolutely have the power to create change in our own communities. That's what Radical Unlearning proposes, and demonstrates through contemporary stories of people changing their minds (and ways) against the odds. Order now! allgoodbooks.com/item/VdT28uS...

I have been learning and unlearning from and with @prisonculture.bsky.social for over a decade; I'm so grateful to have her endorsement of my latest endeavor, an in-depth inquiry into what creates the conditions for people to let go of deeply held beliefs and ideologies. Pre-order now!

Ever had that "make it make sense?!" feeling when you're reading the news? Yeah. Me too. Conceiving of journalism as political education -- as the @kcdefender.bsky.social does so well -- is one solution and way forward. @objectivejournos.bsky.social objectivejournalism.org/2025/08/make...

I did go away. Now I am back. And starting a PhD program in history! And still working at @interruptcrim.bsky.social of course, offering office hours (free!) Wednesdays and Thursdays for movement journalists, communicators, anyone with a liberatory journalism question or problem.

"The kinds of articles that really help people are not PR releases for organizations but real breakdowns of tactics that have and haven’t worked, real descriptions of the ins and outs of a given strategy or approach. With stories like these, we don’t need doomscrolling." — @lewispants.bsky.social

Super cool!

Finished recording the audio book of Radical Unlearning! Cruising towards October publication...preorder now (a big help to getting the book out into the world)! allgoodbooks.com/item/VdT28uS...

As a former President of a law school chapter of the Federalist Society, I just want to say how important it is that we are naming the lower-level functionaries in government and pinning their unethical and immoral behavior specifically to organizations like the Federalist Society.

A new strategy from Federalist Society lawyers at the DOJ uses “false claims” to target trans health care providers. They are already serving subpoenas to intimidate people out of providing this care. @wallace.bsky.social @interruptcrim.bsky.social @truthout.org truthout.org/articles/doj...

Join us online for this resource launch and discussion with IC co-founder @dreanyc123.bsky.social and Abolition Journalism Fellow @lewispants.bsky.social, @catachresis.bsky.social of @convergencemag.com, and Vivian Anderson of Every Black Girl. Learn more and register:

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...