Kwaneta's latest essay is a true first-person narrative of paranoia, survival, and Texas-sized roaches. Read it here: open.substack.com/pub/kwanetah...

Read more from @kwanetaharris.bsky.social👇 prismreports.org/2024/04/01/i...

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Kwaneta & Black Girl's Guide to Surviving Menopause collaborated on a three-part series on menopause, incarceration, and the climate crisis for Scalawag. Part 1: scalawagmagazine.org/2025/10/cool... Part 2: scalawagmagazine.org/2025/10/the-... Part 3: scalawagmagazine.org/2025/10/burn...

This summer, Kwaneta’s essay Behind the Walls was published in a special issue of ZEKE Magazine, Window Into Solitary. Read her work and consider supporting as a paid Substack subscriber: kwanetaharris.substack.com/p/behind-the...

"Solitary, it kills you in ways that don't show up on death certificates. I've watched women die in there, not from violence, not from medical neglect, but they die from hopelessness. It kills a part of you. You're never the same." (Kwaneta Harris) kwanetaharris.substack.com/p/journey-to...

Read "The Power of Unity: Dismantling the Carceral State from Within," Kwaneta's latest piece for Substack. Her essay was the cover story for the August edition of San Francisco Bayview, a national Black newspaper that has been in circulation since 1976. kwanetaharris.substack.com/p/the-power-...

“Our Commemoration of Black August Transforms These Spaces of Intended Destruction into Laboratories of Liberation” by @kwanetaharris.bsky.social for @solitarywatch.bsky.social. Read her essay here: solitarywatch.org/2025/08/22/r...

Huge congrats to @chriswblackwell.bsky.social, @kwanetaharris.bsky.social ,Deborah Zalesne and Terry Kupers, whose book ENDING ISOLATION: The Case Against Solitary Confinement, was reviewed in @theguardian.com: www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...

Kwaneta Harris: @kwanetaharris.bsky.social -------------------------------------- Solitary Watch: @solitarywatch.bsky.social Truthout: @truthout.org

"The ultimate expression of law is not order—it's prison." "Black August, observed each August since 1979, commemorates the deaths of Black liberation fighters who died in prison." "[T]he same forces that murdered our ancestors continue to operate within these walls." #USA #Incarceration

When our community is disappeared locally — disappeared from life into prisons — people on both sides of the bars are punished. Holing human beings away does nothing to help society, heal community — and it disrupts their families, their loved ones, their children. Here's a chance to mitigate harm

@kwanetaharris.bsky.social has a fundraiser that's live with the goal of raising funds for her kids to come see her in person for the first time in a decade. You can support her and her family here: www.gofundme.com/f/bring-kwan...

Latest from @kwanetaharris.bsky.social is now up on @prismreports.org about tear gas inside Texas prisons. "Guards deploy tear gas for cursing, for walking too slowly, for asking too many questions. It’s not about safety; it’s about control." prismreports.org/2025/08/07/t...

A message from V, a letter to Kwaneta's teenage self, Black August, and a fundraiser to bring Kwaneta's family together. Read Kwaneta's latest Substack and support her family's fundraiser to offset travel costs for an in-person visit! kwanetaharris.substack.com/p/happy-birt... bit.ly/kwanetafamily

Kwaneta sends a very special congratulations to her friend and comrade Dutch on the premiere of SIN, a screenplay he authored, on Tubi. Kwaneta is deeply inspired by his prolificness and the depth of his work, especially as an incarcerated writer. tubitv.com/movies/10004...

In her latest Substack — “Texas Hold’em: How the Prison System Keeps its Grip on Parole-Eligible People” — Kwaneta highlights the arbitrariness of the parole system, questioning the illogics of the prison system as a whole. Read more and subscribe: kwanetaharris.substack.com/p/texas-holdem

@kwanetaharris.bsky.social wrote the preface for the guide "Best Practices in Defending Women and Gender Minorities," just released by Cornell Law School. "A gender-sensitive lawyer wouldn’t have shamed me for my past," she writes. dpw.lawschool.cornell.edu/publication/...

For the blog A Real Hood Square's Perspective, @kwanetaharris.bsky.social writes about the criminalization of LGBTQ+ intimacy inside Texas women's prisons. Read it here: tharealhoodsquare.com/blog-page/f/...

@kwanetaharris.bsky.social penned the essay Chemical Chains for the latest TriQuarterly lit magazine. It begins: " Dawn hadn't even broken when I watched my cellmate struggle with her makeshift solution." www.triquarterly.org/issue-168/ch...

Kwaneta's latest piece on Substack highlights her bylines in @solitarywatch.bsky.social, Real Hood Square, @themarshallproject.org, @filmcomment.com.web.brid.gy, and Apogee Journal. Thank you for reading! kwanetaharris.substack.com/p/and-still-...

Check out Kwaneta's latest writing published on Hood Square. She speaks out against prison staff’s use of disinformation to stigmatize, further marginalize, and additionally criminalize already incarcerated LGBTQ+ people. tharealhoodsquare.com/blog-page/f/...

For @solitarywatch.bsky.social, @kwanetaharris.bsky.social brings visibility to the LGBTQ population in prison. "When we exclude the most vulnerable members of our community from our celebrations, we betray everything PRIDE represents." solitarywatch.org/2025/06/26/b...

For Narratively, @kwanetaharris.bsky.social wrote a letter to her teenage self: "But here’s what you need to know, young one: Something extraordinary will happen in that darkness." www.narratively.com/p/letter-to-...

Great interview by Demetrius Buckley, incarcerated in Michigan, of @kwanetaharris.bsky.social , incarcerated in Texas. Both are from Detroit. In the words of Demetrius, Kwaneta is "ten toes on her shit. I know when I leave here imma be rejuvenated." www.apogeejournal.org/pieces/inter...

Here's a video recording of the May 31 "Mothering Behind Bars" webinar hosted by the Incarcerated Womxn's Clemency and Support Project (IWCSP) and the Kwaneta Harris @kwanetaharris.bsky.social Defense Campaign. www.patreon.com/posts/mother...

@kwanetaharris.bsky.social for @filmcomment.com.web.brid.gy on writing a screenplay from prison with little access to outside films or media. "Despite this disconnection—or perhaps because of it—my imagination has flourished." www.filmcomment.com/blog/from-ce...

“We share everything — from toothpaste to trauma. This care work is needed because the system won’t do it ... Mothering in here is interdependent. It is survival. It is resistance. It is the radical act of saying: You still matter. You are still loved.” kwanetaharris.substack.com/p/the-unbrok...

@kwanetaharris.bsky.social is one incarcerated contributor to the @prisonjournalism.bsky.social project "I Could Have Been George Floyd." "Floyd and I share more than our Blackness..." she writes. prisonjournalismproject.org/2025/05/22/i...

Kwaneta writes about how Mother’s Day, for many incarcerated women, is a painful reminder of what they’ve either lost or will never experience. Read more and consider becoming a a paid subscriber! kwanetaharris.substack.com/p/mourning-motherhood-behind-bars-a

"In this powerful mother-daughter exchange, Summer Knight and Kwaneta Harris reveal how nearly a decade of forced silence through solitary confinement shattered their bond—and how they’re fighting to rebuild it..." @kwanetaharris.bsky.social for @msmagazine.com: msmagazine.com/2025/05/09/m...

And congratulations to all the Inquest contributors who were recognized as Stillwater winners, including @kwanetaharris.bsky.social , @alwaysstevie.bsky.social , @chriswblackwell.bsky.social , & Leo Cardez! Threading some of our favorite articles from them down below.....

Congratulations @kwanetaharris.bsky.social for cleaning up at the Stillwaters (Prison Journalist of the Year, Best Op-Ed, runner up for Best Collaboration)! Resharing your wonderful Inquest article about prison censorship inquest.org/censoring-wo...

Mother’s Day is a difficult time for many families, particularly for incarcerated mothers and their loved ones. Kwaneta and her youngest daughter, Summer, penned an essay about their relationship and how solitary confinement tries to break family bonds. msmagazine.com/2025/05/09/m...

Could not be more excited for my dear friend, the brilliant writer @kwanetaharris.bsky.social. Please go to her website and follow her here.

And a very special congratulations to @kwanetaharris.bsky.social who won first place as 2025's Prison Journalist of the Year! You can read all of Kwaneta's work here: www.kwanetaharris.com/writing-and-...

For Cosmopolitan Magazine, @kwanetaharris.bsky.social writes about the criminalization of Black hair in prison: "Having an Afro or dreadlocks can mean solitary confinement. Meanwhile, going with mandated hairstyles may be life-threatening..." www.cosmopolitan.com/lifestyle/a6...

For @sojo.net, @kwanetaharris.bsky.social writes that "in prison, your spiritual journey is regulated by paperwork." Read the full essay here: sojo.net/articles/opi...

@kwanetaharris.bsky.social is a contributor to the poetry anthology Winter in America (Again In the anthology, poets respond to the 2024 Presidential Election. Buy it here: www.lulu.com/shop/jason-w...

In "Cruel Paradox of Freedom," Kwaneta writes about MacKenzie, who is anxious and scared ahead of her upcoming release from prison. With no resources or support awaiting her on the outside, "she faces a vast wilderness of uncertainty." kwanetaharris.substack.com/p/cruel-paradox-of-freedom

"Given the fact that most of us have nothing, and work prison jobs for free, a flu, cold, or pulled muscle could wipe out our entire life savings." A must-read account of the prison healthcare system from @kwanetaharris.bsky.social

@kwanetaharris.bsky.social writes for the Mellon Foundation about her long history as a writer, the power it has brought her during incarceration, and the impact of being a Haymarket Writing Freedom Fellow. www.mellon.org/voices/how-w...

@kwanetaharris.bsky.social is featured in this week's Everyday Injustice podcast, hosted by Davis Vanguard. Listen here! davisvanguard.org/2025/03/ever...

Yesterday, Mellon Foundation and @haymarketbooks.org announced the selection of the 2025 Writing Freedom Fellows. In celebration of the expansion of the program, Kwaneta was invited to write an essay about her own experience being named a 2024 fellow. mellon.org/voices/how-writing-saved-my-life

I’m an Incarcerated Nurse — Women’s Health in Prison Is Hell and Will Only Get Worse Under Trump by Kwaneta Harris for @rollingstone.com www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

@kwanetaharris.bsky.social for @rollingstone.com with the dire state of women's health in prison and her fears of it getting even worse under Trump. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Another phenomenal piece of reporting from @kwanetaharris.bsky.social. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

@kwanetaharris.bsky.social is on This American Life!!! So excited for all of you to hear my brilliant friend’s words!!! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

An amazing start to the week: @kwanetaharris.bsky.social's story is live on this week's episode of @thisamericanlife.org, "You've Come to the Right Person." Kwaneta writes that her knowledge as a nurse has become a resource to others at her prison. www.thisamericanlife.org/856/youve-co...

I could not be more excited for my wonderful friend-please make sure to listen!