Good Sunday 🍂 Photo by Artem Saranin. @pexels #Photography

it’s Sunday on bluesky so I am urging everyone to take care of themselves. Take a walk, have a second cup of coffee or tea, read a book, spend some time looking at small poems

USC Levan Book Chat: Join Professor Brittany Friedman @curlyprofessor.bsky.social for a virtual discussion of her new book, Carceral Apartheid: How Lies and White Supremacists Run Our Prisons @uncpress.bsky.social📖 Register for the 9/29 event: calendar.usc.edu/event/levan-...

Congratulations to 2025-2026 ASA POP Fellow Brittany Friedman! @curlyprofessor.bsky.social‬ ‪ @uscsociology.bsky.social‬ @usc.edu‬ bit.ly/POPfellows%E...

www.podbean.com/eas/pb-3w2e9... Guest: @curlyprofessor.bsky.social #blacksky #politics #podcast

@curlyprofessor.bsky.social on the next episode of A Moment with Erik Fleming! #blacksky #politics #podcast

“WE WERE NEVER MEANT TO OBEY” - New writing from me @polrightsrev.bsky.social politicsrights.com/obey-aboliti...

“They don’t want anyone to see how they treat people. They want to be doing this”—their deportations—”with no witnesses.”

"Prison is not a place that solves violence. Prison is a place that replicates that violence and extends it out." —Gina Dent ('Abolition. Feminism. Now.') helps us imagine an abolitionist future. A collab with ‪@ruwithsonali.bsky.social‬ and ‪@sevenstories.bsky.social‬ inquest.org/building...

"All these white people did not know each other personally, but they all knew what team they were on, and they all knew they were white, together, and that we were not." @curlyprofessor.bsky.social‬ on how racist solidarity works as a form of policing. inquest.org/united-i...

Appreciate @inquest.bsky.social publishing this excerpt from my book Carceral Apartheid: How Lies and White Supremacists Run Our Prisons. @uncpress.bsky.social

“Everything from social media posts to metadata about phone calls to the purchase information collected by data brokers to location data showing every step taken is available to law enforcement… without a warrant.” ALERT: The High-Tech Tools Police Use to Surveil Protesters @themarshallproject.org

@curlyprofessor.bsky.social joins me to take us inside her research process & unpack key themes of her new book Carceral Apartheid, from @uncpress.bsky.social. 🎧 Apple link below (w/ transcripts). #EduSky #AcademicSky #BookSky @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

For this long & commemorative holiday weekend, my super-sized 226th #ScholarSunday thread is full of thoughtful public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the last week. Add more below, share widely, & enjoy, all! 🗃️ americanstudier.substack.com/p/scholarsun...

@curlyprofessor.bsky.social’s CARCERAL APARTHEID delves into how prisons suppress Black political movements, revealing the broader themes of deception, empire, corruption, and white supremacy in American mass incarceration. #JPPseries

Prof. Brittany Friedman argues that carceral obedience is not natural but imposed. Her work traces how state violence shapes identity and suppresses authenticity. Abolition begins by rejecting obedience and reclaiming collective freedom. @curlyprofessor.bsky.social

Thanks so much for highlighting my recent interview with AAIHS! www.aaihs.org/carceral-apa...

Rep. Robert Menendez (D-NJ) lays out what really happened at the ICE detention center in Newark NJ. Menendez's statement is corroborated by video evidence.

I had the accidental but delightful pleasure of meeting Dr. Friedman last night while we were both waiting for a train home. What a lovely person, and her book sounds fascinating!

📢 TONIGHT! NYC Event has been moved to the Main Location of Word Up Community Books! See ⬇️

"My book uplifts the voices of Black political prisoners who saw clearly what the state was doing—and dared to resist." @robgreeneii.bsky.social interviews @curlyprofessor.bsky.social, author of CARCERAL APARTHEID, for AAIHS Black Perspectives blog. Read it now 👇 www.aaihs.org/carceral-apa...

NYC see you tomorrow w/ Darren Mack of Freedom Agenda! I have so much respect for Darren’s work to close Rikers and am honored to be in conversation. 🎙️ 📍Word Up Community Books

This is Linda Martin. A few years ago, the FBI seized her life savings: $40,200. The kicker: She was never charged with a crime—and the government couldn’t tell her why it took her money. Martin is far from the first. But she is trying to make sure she is the last. A thread.

Los Angeles— see you tomorrow @latimes.com Festival of Books 🎙️📚 !!

This was such an amazing event!

See you soon Chicago! Can’t wait to be in conversation w/ Reuben Miller on Wednesday @630pm at Volumes Bookcafe in Wicker Park. Grab a ticket here: www.eventbrite.com/e/brittany-f...

If you haven't read this, I highly recommend it. I was lucky to receive a galley of it and it's so good. A definite must-read.

How do lies and white supremacists run our prisons?… 🎙️ Dissecting the Intersections of White Supremacy and Mass Incarceration A can’t miss episode of Law & Disorder with Brittany Friedman (@curlyprofessor.bsky.social), author of ‘Carceral Apartheid’ open.spotify.com/episode/3Zd6...

This is a great discussion, and you should read "Carceral Apartheid: How Lies and White Supremacists Run Our Prisons" by @curlyprofessor.bsky.social

Appreciate this article on the event & my book Carceral Apartheid: www.browndailyherald.com/article/2025...

Today!!

How do you transform lies into truth? By erasing the VERY REAL past.

Rumeysa Ozturk is apparently being held in an ICE facility in Louisiana, owned by GEO Group, a private prison company that does much of the immigration prison contracting. Here's an image of what happened to GEO's stock price, nearly doubling from Nov 4 to Nov 11. Hate is a for profit business.

If you want to track the Executive Orders being signed, you should bookmark this page. The order to dismantle the Department of Education was signed an hour ago. It will be uploaded soon. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Y’all this event w/ Dorsey @allofusornonehq.bsky.social and the community building in the Bay was everything! 📍Book Passage - San Francisco

Really appreciate this review of my book! @uncpress.bsky.social

Carceral Apartheid: How Lies and White Supremacists Run Our Prisons By @curlyprofessor.bsky.social uncpress.org/book/9781469... @uncpress.bsky.social (Review by TEN co-founder @awkword.bsky.social otw)

Throughout the *entire* Trump era, the people who were called unserious for overreacting or catastrophizing have been correct and the calm, smug centrists have been catastrophically wrong (and have refused to learn). Trump has already tried to overturn elections and surely will again.

Today at 330 PST we @raqueldelerme.bsky.social will be live on KPFK w/ Maria Hall for “Lawyers Guild Radio” talking about our February 21st piece @theconversation.com where we predicted a rise in surveillance, disappearances, & political warfare under Trump. 🎙️

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Public scholarly goodness doesn’t take a Spring Break—so here’s my 216th #ScholarSunday thread of writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the last week. Share widely & enjoy, all! 🗃️ americanstudier.substack.com/p/scholarsun...

"Carceral Apartheid is an excellent contribution to this literature and offers important context for understanding prisons in the twenty-first century." CARCERAL APARTHEID by @curlyprofessor.bsky.social reviewed in Not Even Past 👇 notevenpast.org/review-of-ca...

Happy Friends Like Us Day!!😄 Join our spectacular host @marinafranklin.bsky.social and friends #AkeemWoods and @curlyprofessor.bsky.social for an eye-opening discussion on Dr. Friedman's new book:"Carceral Apartheid: How Lies and White Supremacists Run Our Prisons. linktr.ee/marinayfrank...

‘TRAP’ isn’t unique. Did You Know?… 1 in 3 Hollywood blockbusters has been at least partially financed by the Department of Defense. In fact, each year the Pentagon helps make an average of 7 big-budget movies and 90+ smaller film and TV projects that sensationalize war and policing.

🚨 NEW EPISODE ALERT! Join me and Akeem Woods for an eye-opening discussion with @curlyprofessor.bsky.social on her new book: "Carceral Apartheid: How Lies and White Supremacists Run Our Prisons." Listen here: sites.libsyn.com/54294/carcer... #Podcast

Bay Area—would love to see you at Book Passage on March 16th at 2pm in San Francisco as Dorsey Nunn and I discuss the history of racial warfare in CA prisons, the state arming of white supremacists, and what healing looks like for our communities.

"Black women have dreams. We always have, just like everybody else." In this photo essay of her ancestors @curlyprofessor.bsky.social, author of CARCERAL APARTHEID, offers a tribute to the powerful legacy of Black women who continue to dream and strive for a better world. bit.ly/3DH72Xf

Airing tomorrow on @cspan Lectures in History 📺 at 8am, 11am, 8pm, & 11pm EST, I deliver a corrective lecture disrupting state narratives about the inner-workings of prisons—drawing from my research in my new book CARCERAL APARTHEID: How Lies & White Supremacists Run Our Prisons.

Etymology of the day: ‘book’ comes from an ancient root shared by ‘beech’, a wood that people used for engraving inscriptions. ‘Paper’ comes from ‘papyrus’, and ‘volume’ is from the Latin for a ‘roll’ of parchment. Happy World Book Day.