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Alexis Shotwell

@alexisshotwell.bsky.social
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Feminist theorist writing about imperfection and impurity as a good place to start, Ursula K Le Guin's anarchist communism, disability, ecology, racism, getting together to fix complex problems. Functional potter, year-round cyclist, queer, earnest.

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Radical Events Ottawa @rad-events-ottawa.bsky.social · 11h
Coming up in Ottawa - a trivia fundraiser for Cuba, zine making at the Ottawa Trans Library, a march for Gaza, and much more! www.punchupcollective.org/reo-calendar/
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Karen’s memory for an inspiration to live like she did: mcadamsfh.com/tribute/deta...
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Obituary of Dr. Karen Pearlston | McAdam's Funeral Home & Crematorium
Karen Frimet Pearlston, born 15 November 1958, daughter of Maryline and Harvey, died peacefully at her home in Ekpahak / Fredericton, NB, on 18 September 2026 at the age of 67. Karen is survived by h...
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 01/10/2026
A couple of years ago, I interviewed a leading attorney who represents survivors of sexual misconduct on campus, Iliana Konidaris (whose brother is the awesome 🔭 Nick Konidaris). I learned A LOT:
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How This Lawyer Confronts Sexual Assault on Campus
Photo by Edwin Andrade on Unsplash I first met Olympias Iliana Konidaris at her brother’s wedding, where she gave a great toast that affirmed all of my...
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
Fryer was suspended from supervising students at Harvard due to sexual misconduct 🤡
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Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
To win in significant ways, we will have to build and sustain movements, propelled by urgency, that move at a pace that we can maintain, collectively, for years to come.” Why we need to organize. buff.ly/UugVtK6
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“Regular, rigorous, and Reliable.” How to Keep Fighting for a Better World
We can cultivate qualities that help us to stick around in struggle. This is something that came up when I spoke in 2023 with Philadelphia activist Suzy Subways about her decades of movement experi…
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 27/09/2026
“Cofnas is often presented as someone doing research on race and IQ. This is incorrect. Cofnas has two academic papers related to the topic (here and here), but these are articles in the field of philosophy of science….In other words: Cofnas is not a scholar doing research on race and IQ.” 🧪
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Why it is reasonable to label Nathan Cofnas’ race realism as pseudoscientific - The Skeptic
"Race realist" Nathan Cofnas claims his "hereditarianist" viewpoint is scientifically accurate - by citing pseudoscientific research and misleading rhetoric.
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Dan Berger @dnbrgr.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Always scan the bookshelves of tv shows, kids! I was watching The Lowdown last night and saw a copy of my first book, Outlaws of America, peaking over Ethan Hawke’s shoulder! Really hoping it plays a part in the show’s unfolding mystery.
Ethan Hawke in the Lowdown stares off camera in front of bookshelves. I circled in purple where my book Outlaws of America is on the shelf.
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The Nation Magazine @thenation.com · 25/09/2026
Autumn Hill was sentenced to 50 years in prison for protesting outside the Prairieland Detention Center, forced into a men's prison despite being a trans woman. This week, she talked to Grace Byron from behind bars:
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A Message From Prairieland Prisoner Autumn Hill: "Don't Be Afraid"
I talked to the political prisoner about the politics of love, her case, surviving as a trans woman in a men's prison, and how she makes it through the day.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 25/09/2026
I applaud the survivor and the brave journalists who did this: “To Matthew Ingalls, Jonathan Newell, Winston Lee, Gillio Lopes, Diego Sarabia, Scott Norris and Scott Kretzschmar: We know who you are and we refuse to let you benefit from this University's concealment.”
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EDITORIAL | Cornell Won’t, We Will
The Editorial Board demands that Cornell stops protecting the alleged Chi Phi rapists through the University's opaque sexual assault policies.
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Claire Zagorski, PhD, MSc, EMT-P @clairezagorski.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I hate it so much. This can happen to you too. A year ago, almost everyone doubted this would happen. I had faculty at other schools telling me I was hysterical. (Irony!) Watch for the installation of right wing figureheads without an academic background. Watch for assaults on faculty governance.
BREAKING NEWS
UT cuts all Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies courses from core curriculum
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Jo Walton @bluejo.eurosky.social · 25/09/2026
Letter to Mike Ford: Still. It's the twenty year anniversary of the death of John M. Ford. New poem on my Patreon www.patreon.com/bluejo/posts...
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Letter to Mike Ford: Still | Jo Walton
I think of you at every station. I still talk to you in my head. I have to talk about you in past tense. I still choke on "was". In Minneapo
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Kelly Fritsch @kellyfritsch.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
See you tonight at Dominion Chalmers, Ottawa! @uminnpress.bsky.social @morsini.bsky.social @nataliekt.bsky.social @anneemcguire.bsky.social @remiyergeau.bsky.social @carleton.ca @carletonfass.bsky.social carleton.ca/cdash/event/...
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Broken Worlds, Disabled Kin: Strategies for Collective Survival Book Launch and Discussion - Carleton Disability and Access Studies Hub (C-DASH)
Authors Kelly Fritsch and Anne McGuire argue that we live in a world broken by design: a web of systems that debilitate and destroy through racist and ableist infrastructural neglect, socioeconomic ab...
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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
One of the things I love about following Seth (other than the fact he's a great dude and brilliant scholar) is he'll describe some Right-wing guy and it's always like "a committed anti-Communist and John Bircher, he also believed an army of forest gnomes could help him become county commissioner"
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irina cerić @irinaceric.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is so much more horrifying than I thought it would be
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Sophie Lewis @reproutopia.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Red Emma's is hosting me and the inimitable Tash Lennard to talk about her holy anticipated new essay collection ✨✨
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sheer spite press @sheerspite.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
OTTAWA: i'll be doing two launch events for The Politics of Lonely, both on Saturday, October 24: ✨ signing at @octopusbooks.ca ✨ launch/reading/convo with @alexisshotwell.bsky.social and Adrienne Row-Smith at The Grove (location changed for capacity reasons!) sheerspite.ca/blog/2026/08...
saturday October  24 11 am - 1 pm - Ottawa Book Signing  
I'll be sitting out front of Octopus Books (116 Third Avenue at Bank St.) to sign books and chat.  Come say hi! Rain date Sunday October 25, 11-1. 

saturday October 24, 5 -7 pm
Ottawa Book Launch & Friendship Forum with Alexis Shotwell & Adrienne Row-Smith      
NEW LOCATION: The Grove,  18 Louisa Street Unit 280
fundraiser for the Ottawa Trans Library 
registration not required to order the book or anything else for pickup,  use code OTTAWALAUNCH at sheerspite.ca  :) Alexis Shotwell is a queer SF nerd, functional potter, teacher, and writer, currently living on unceded Algonquin land. Author of Against Purity: Living Ethically in Compromised Times (about why purity won’t save us) and the forthcoming Liberation is Other People (about getting together to solve big problems in which we are complicit), she is also finishing a book about Ursula K. Le Guin’s anarchism and why it’s so great.Adrienne Row-Smith (she/her) is a Queer Black visual specialist based in so-called Ottawa, working across photo and video to create bold, impactful imagery. Rooted in a deep commitment to authenticity and accessibility in media, she co-founded The Grove, which is an interdisciplinary art and community space offering affordable rentals and sliding-scale events. Through both her creative practice and community work, Adrienne aims to build a space and working body that reflects the elements of care, resistance, and belonging, where disenfranchised voices are not only heard but celebrated.Lee Arden  is the author of The Politics of Lonely: Why Is Friendship So Hard?, a book that takes friendship out of an individualistic context and argues that we’re struggling with our friendships because we live in the decaying ruins of colonial capitalism. Lee also runs the small press and zine distro Sheer Spite Press and has written lots of zines, including PALS: The Radical Possibilities of Friendship, which formed the basis for this new book.
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BostonJoan 🏳️‍🌈 🦫 @bostonjoan.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Toad, the wet sprocket.
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Alexis Shotwell @alexisshotwell.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Such a huge loss.
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Chris Dixon @withmovements.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
This is a really moving tribute to Emi Koyama on @autostraddle.bsky.social.
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Prolific Trans and Intersex Activist Emi Koyama Has Died. Her Legacy Reminds Us To Imagine Transfeminist Futures
Koyama’s work deeply shaped the last three decades of trans, feminist, and intersex thinking.
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Dan Berger @dnbrgr.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Happy Team Dresch album release day to all who celebrate!
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Eli Meyerhoff @elimeyerhoff.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
In our first episode of Another Education Is Possible (@anothereducation.bsky.social)'s new season, we talk about friendship, how we found ourselves in the world of radical study, and what we're excited about in this upcoming season. anotheredispossible.substack.com/p/friends-an...
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'Friends and Comrades: Another Season is Possible’
The first episode of AEIP’s third season
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Marissa Lingen @marissalingen.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
What an honor to have a book on this amazing list! Particularly with @freyamarske.bsky.social 's BODIES OF MAGIC, which is SO GOOD YOU WILL LOVE IT
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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Did you know I'll be on tour for my latest book, A WALL IS ALSO A ROAD, starting this October 6? Yes, I will! Catch me in San Francisco, Chicago, Boston, New York, Burlington VT, and Ottawa!
Book Tour

October 6 – San Francisco Book Launch
Green apple books, with M.M. Olivas

October 7 – Chicago
Barnes & Noble @ West Diversey Parkway
with Michi Trota

October 9 – New York
New York City Comic-Con

October 14 – Boston
Brookline Booksmith
with Cecilia Tan

October 15 – Burlington, VT
Phoenix Books
with Andrew Liptak

October 16-18 – Ottawa
Can*Con
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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I have listened to and read lots and lots of What AI will Mean for College and the one big thing that gets skips all the time is TEACHING. Information provided is not teaching. 8/
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Marissa Lingen @marissalingen.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
This is going to be such a fun event! I hope you can make it!
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Alexis Shotwell @alexisshotwell.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Happy launch day to this great book! I was happy to blurb it and I’m really looking forward to the Ottawa launch party/panel next month
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Lydy @lydy.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
In reference to discourse elsewhere, I would like to say that several of the most delightful and socially adept people I know are autistic. They knew they weren't getting the cues, and worked really hard to make sure that interactions were pleasant for all parties. /1
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Ruthanna Emrys @r-emrys.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
@sfwa.bsky.social Emerging Technology's tool comparison matrix, which I've been working on for months, is finally up in beta! See how your favorite word processors, browsers, and search engines compare to alternatives on intrusive AI and user data collection: sfwa.org/emerging-tech/
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Emerging Tech Committee - SFWA - The Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Association
Emerging Tech Resources On Saturday, September 24 at 1pm Pacific Time, we are honored to present “Humanizing Assignments” to SFWA […]
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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
It's easy to have all the antivaxxer stories fade into background noise with everything else that's going on. But we had essentially eradicated measles-a nightmare disease, esp for children-and then people, as a pledge of allegiance to maga, decided 'nah, let's bring it back'. Pure, uncut insanity.
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Karrie @karriehiggins.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
This is $1,168 away from a milestone that would allow me to catch up on some important care! Please keep sharing and thank you so much! Again, I cannot access Help Hope Live funds without medical receipts. Also could use help with court fees, groceries & ride costs to appointments!
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Chris Dixon @withmovements.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I'm delighted to share that I will be traveling regionally to speak at a few launches for my book this fall. If you're in one of these cities, I would love to see you and hear your thoughts about long-haul organizing!
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 04/09/2026
In the latest round of pass the harasser, this Professor slept with students and now is moving into a leadership role at Arizona State University 🧪 #metoo madison.com/news/local/e...
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Records: UW-Madison professor engaged in sex with students, exploited 'power imbalance'
The records were released in response to a request from the Wisconsin State Journal.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 04/09/2026
I watched the Cambridge Chancellor's announcement about their review and investigation and I guess, with frustration, I see that it's clear that they won't investigate the way academic spaces, especially elite ones, target, harm, and keep out Black *communities* -- not just Black academics.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 31/08/2026
My book, which is currently on sale for $1.99 (ebook), is the @newscientist.com September book club selection! Some thoughts on the work I hope the book does: “Given the crises we face – genocides, climate change, attacks on transgender people – we need our critical faculties now more than ever.” 🧪
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'Thinking about the edges of space-time can help build a better world' | New Scientist
Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, New Scientist columnist and author of the September read for the New Scientist Book Club, The Edge of Space-Time, on why the big questions in physics matter so much
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roterote @roterote.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Here is the full suspension letter from UGent that was sent to Nathan Cofnas, it shows ample reason for his suspension and potential termination. Including breach of contract, using the University of Ghent’s name and legitimacy to promote his racial supremacist views and causing reputational damage.
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 23/08/2026
I love Minneapolis
Jake Lang, a Nazi asshole, getting his ass picturesquely whooped in downtown Minneapolis by a person dressed as Spider-Man

I cannot overstate how much this photo looks like a comic book cover

Photo credit Chris Juhn Photography
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Alexis Shotwell @alexisshotwell.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
So I think we can all agree that Moby Dick is the perfect book for reading in the middle of the night; interesting enough, many new words, gay, short chapters, possible to release it & fall sleep when the wakey/sleepy balance shifts, political, hilarious. But what to read now that I'm almost done?
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Radical Events Ottawa @rad-events-ottawa.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Coming up in Ottawa - a Palestine solidarity teach-in and art build, a queer experimental music and poetry event, an anti-Fifa soccer tournament, the Ottawa Trans March, International Overdose Awareness Day, and much more! www.punchupcollective.org/reo-calendar/
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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Turnitin is typical of the edtech dual income platform biz model - take subscription fees from institutions, then take monetizable data and content from students and staff too bsky.app/profile/benp...
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Jo Walton @bluejo.eurosky.social · 13/08/2026
"...warmly and engag­ingly combining fannish vim with scholarly vigor..." This is a great review!
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WRONG or METAPHYSICAL IN NATURE @jsthrill.modphi.com · 06/08/2026
Kathleen Stock is a bad person
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Alexis Shotwell @alexisshotwell.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Put this on your calendars! The book is searching and interesting and the conversation will be wonderful
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Kyla Wazana Tompkins @kwazana.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Hey I was alerted that my teaching/reading theory essay We Aren’t Here To Learn What We Already Know has been migrating servers and here’s a new link avidly.org/we-arent-her...
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We Aren’t Here to Learn What We Already Know - Avidly
What is a good question? And, how do we teach students to work at writing good questions? In my feminist and queer theories class, a core course in the Gender
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irina cerić @irinaceric.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
I have gotten through every single day of my life without any voluntary/deliberate use of generative AI.
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Robin James @robinjames.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
The introduction to the vibes book is live and free on the publisher’s website! dukeupress.edu/good-vibes-o...
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Good Vibes Only: Phenomenology and the Biopolitics of Algorithmic Legitimation
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Ottawa Trans Library @ottawatranslibrary.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
We added 17 new books to the shelves this month! You can drop off books in person or send them in the mail. Unsure if a book fits our collection? Send us an email or drop by to ask Let us know if you have recommendations! You can seeour full catalogue here: www.librarycat.org/lib/otttrans...
"I Don't Want to Be Understood" by Joshua Jennifer Espinoza
"Simplicity" by Mattie Lubchansky
"A Body More Tolerable" by jaye simpson
"Missed Connections with Tall Girls" by Gwen Aube
"A Shore Thing" by Joanna Lowell"Town Ghosts" by Laika Wallace
"Comment Je Suis Devenue Bo" by Bo Van Spilbeeck
"We See Each Other: A Black, Trans Journey Through TV and Film" by Tre'vell Anderson
"Opting Out" by Maia Kobabe and Swati "Lucky" Srikumar
"The Einstein of Sex: Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, Visionary of Weimar Berlin" by Daniel Brook"No One Taught Me How to Be a Man: What a Trans Man's Experience Reveals about Masculinity" by Shannon T. L. Kearns
"Guitar concerto in C flat major, Op. 12: Lucina" by S Morgan Burbank
"Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next)" by Dean Spade
"All Parts Welcome: The Queer and Trans Internal Family Systems Workbook" by Sand C. Chang
"How to Fuck Like a Girl: Essays" by Vera Blossom"Woodpusher" by S. Morgan Burbank
"Kotov Syndrome" by S. Morgan Burbank
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Radical Events Ottawa @rad-events-ottawa.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Coming up in Hottawa! Abolition ftw plus Ottawa Service Dog Meet up Group walk, People's SONA: Filipino Community Festival, No Pigs BBQ and Roast: A Community Gathering to Demand the Terminations, Not Resignations of Ottawa Cops, Prisoners' Justice Day events www.punchupcollective.org/reo-calendar/
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Events Archive - Punch Up Collective
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Craig Gilmore @craiggilmore.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Golden Gulag en français
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« Golden Gulag », traduction inédite d’un texte central de l’abolitionnisme américain
Écrit par la géographe et abolitionniste Ruth Wilson Gilmore en 2007, « Golden Gulag » tente de comprendre l’essor du plus grand système carcéral au monde à travers les reconfigurations (...)
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Alexis Shotwell @alexisshotwell.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Wrenching story, and so important that it’s being told. Among other things, I think about what disability community could have meant as an alternative to pursuing this scale of untested treatment.
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