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Hannah Bowman @hannahnpbowman.com · 27/07/2026

Lego flowers! (10345 plus some extras)

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Hannah Bowman @hannahnpbowman.com · 24/07/2026

I was jealous that everyone else had a cute chaos book trope meme so I made one for my book.

Meme with cover of Abolition Ecclesiology. Around it it says: "The church can live liberation — for real," "Everything is space," "Ruth Wilson Gilmore meets Augustine of Hippo," "The wackiest Trinitarian theology you've ever seen in your life," "Carceral binaries (and how to break them down," "'Apocalyptic transmanifestation' (your new band name)," "Sacraments remixed for liberation"

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Hannah Bowman @hannahnpbowman.com · 12/06/2026

As I predicted, the sweater fits perfectly after blocking

Me wearing a red sweater. It clashes with my shirt and skirt

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Hannah Bowman @hannahnpbowman.com · 01/06/2026

Speaking of knitting, it still needs sleeves and pocket linings but I’m REALLY happy with how this sweater is (finally) coming together

A red sweater with no sleeves. It has cables on the front pockets

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Hannah Bowman @hannahnpbowman.com · 28/05/2026

I knit this on size 1 needles

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Hannah Bowman @hannahnpbowman.com · 06/05/2026

More striking art in the LACMA collection:

A purple and red quilt hanging on a concrete gallery wall

A Japanese woodcut print of a bridge across a river

A fireplace with turquoise mosaic around it

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Hannah Bowman @hannahnpbowman.com · 21/04/2026

Please share/respond/discuss! My goal is to spark conversation looking to the future: let's have a plan for concrete transformative change once we've addressed the immediate crisis. ⚓

Full text at https://episcopal-migration-caucus.ghost.io/content/files/2026/04/What-Comes-Next-March-2026-Formatted--1-.pdf

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Hannah Bowman @hannahnpbowman.com · 21/04/2026

One resource is a whitepaper I've put together on a 3-part framework for long-term activism: Abolishing ICE, Welcoming Migrants through revisions of immigration law, and Truth and Reconciliation work. (1/2)

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Hannah Bowman @hannahnpbowman.com · 21/04/2026

Did you see the new Ben Wildflower one???

Woodcut of Jesus rescuing people from hell depicted as barbed wire and cross beams that say ICE Detention

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Hannah Bowman @hannahnpbowman.com · 05/04/2026

Happy Easter! I’m back! The most important thing I want to share today is this new @benwildflower.com icon, an abolitionist anastasis icon showing Jesus harrowing the Hell of imprisonment, which is BREATHTAKING. (I commissioned this piece.) Proclaim resurrection and liberation, friends!

A woodcut icon of Jesus, pulling prisoners out through a hole in barbed wire fence. He is standing on crossed gates of hell that read ICE detention

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Hannah Bowman @hannahnpbowman.com · 15/02/2026

Made a deconstructed Coquilles-St.-Jacques for Valentine’s Day with @thalesdisciple.bsky.social. Seared scallops over a cauliflower-mushroom gratin with Julia Child’s sauce parisienne

Seared scallops over a gratin of cauliflower and mushrooms in a cast iron skillet, with a parsley garnish

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Hannah Bowman @hannahnpbowman.com · 12/02/2026

OK but this is too exciting to wait on sharing: my book! It has a cover! (Coming in November from Fortress Press, pre-orders will be available sooooooon)

Book cover. Three triangles in corners have grass, a road, and a cityscape. Text on black background says: Abolition Ecclesiology: A Spatial Theology for a Church Against Prisons, Hannah Bowman

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Hannah Bowman @hannahnpbowman.com · 26/12/2025

Made salmon coulibiac for Christmas dinner! (Merry Christmas!)

A slice of a layered pastry full of salmon and eggs

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Hannah Bowman @hannahnpbowman.com · 10/12/2025

I work my feelings out through architecture, so I’m getting through this month by designing a townhouse 🤣

A picture of a 3D rendering of a townhouse with four apartments

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Hannah Bowman @hannahnpbowman.com · 28/11/2025

We enjoyed a Southern-style Thanksgiving dinner. Turkey, cornbread dressing, mashed potatoes, greens, squash casserole, Waldorf salad, my mother-in-law’s cranberry relish, pimiento cheese.

Plate with Thanksgiving foods on it (described in post)

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Hannah Bowman @hannahnpbowman.com · 10/11/2025

Finally figured out my Mamdani sign. I know, I know, I’m behind the times

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Hannah Bowman @hannahnpbowman.com · 31/10/2025

My Halloween costume is “math.” With bonus Klein bottle earrings from @thalesdisciple.bsky.social!

Woman with big glasses in a dress with mathematical symbols on it, with little glass earrings in the shape of Klein bottles

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Hannah Bowman @hannahnpbowman.com · 29/10/2025

Dispatch from Footnote Hell. (The books are very nice)

A laptop with several books behind it including PRISON BY ANY OTHER NAME by Maya Schenwar and Victoria Law and ABOLITION GEOGRAPHY by Ruth Wilson Gilmore

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Hannah Bowman @hannahnpbowman.com · 28/10/2025

Obligatory California heat wave comment (fwiw though we’re going to have winds and that makes fire risk go up, so it’s really not great)

Picture of a weather forecast showing temps in the 80s

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Hannah Bowman @hannahnpbowman.com · 09/10/2025

Going slowly, but the yoke of the new cardigan is done (this is the Tin Can Knits Harvest again, but the goal is to put POCKETS on this one with chunky cables on them)

The yoke of a red cardigan on knitting needles

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Hannah Bowman @hannahnpbowman.com · 30/08/2025

Made my first hat. (I like sweaters a lot more than hats)

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Hannah Bowman @hannahnpbowman.com · 19/08/2025

Update: the shape of the pumpkin sweater was much improved by blocking.

A selfie of a woman in a red striped sweater

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Hannah Bowman @hannahnpbowman.com · 16/08/2025

Pumpkin-shaped! Teddy-bear-shaped! Lol

A mirror selfie of a woman wearing a red sweater vest. The middle of the sweater is noticeably rounder than the chest.

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Hannah Bowman @hannahnpbowman.com · 18/07/2025

*on the fly. Anyway the project seems like it’s going to more or less fit

Mirror selfie of a woman with a knitted round yoke of a sweater over her shoulders (the sweater stops abruptly 8 inches below the neckline all around)

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Hannah Bowman @hannahnpbowman.com · 07/07/2025

We went to the new gallery building at LACMA today. Gosh I love brutalism

A concrete hallway with two doorways to concrete rooms in the new gallery building at LACMA

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Hannah Bowman @hannahnpbowman.com · 04/07/2025

Anyway I finished my first cable project

Button scarf in a blue green and brown yarn with two cables on it

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Hannah Bowman @hannahnpbowman.com · 30/06/2025

In the ongoing staving off of the darkness, I decided to learn to cable now that the sweater is done. Making things is soothing.

A swatch of knitting with two cables running up the front

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Hannah Bowman @hannahnpbowman.com · 28/06/2025

Well, it’s not blocked yet but I appear to have made a sweater

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Hannah Bowman @hannahnpbowman.com · 01/05/2025

You’ve seen the icon of the Berrigans, right?

$Icon of Philip and Daniel Berrigan. Philip holds a sign saying “the poor tell us who we are, prophets tell us who we should be, so we hide the poor and kill the prophets” and Daniel holds a sign saying “our apologies, good friends, for the fracture of good order, the burning of paper instead of children”$

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Hannah Bowman @hannahnpbowman.com · 23/01/2025

Here’s a list of things your church can do to grow deeper into being a community of solidarity:

Things churches can do to become communities of solidarity
1. Find an ongoing relational action you can take as a community (not with an outreach partner but work if the parish), which you encourage all your members to take part in and which uses your property during times it's empty
2. If your work is mostly through outreach partners, begin actively recruiting people in the church to join those efforts, personally and in an ongoing way, and build a circle/support group within your parish for ongoing relationship-building among the volunteers you are bringing to your partner organizations from your parish, so that it's not individuals working but a ministry clearly rooted in the community. Pray for these ministries and every member involved in them by name at Sunday worship

3. Offer ongoing opportunities specifically aimed at parents of young children, including work children can engage in and childcare, so parents don't have to choose between caring for their kids and being part of the work. Make sure these opportunities are ongoing and build relationships with other parents, not just one-time events.
4. Offer ongoing opportunities and circles/ support for them specifically for elderly and disabled people, including mask requirements and rides to make them accessible to people who want to participate
5. Require masks at at least one of your Sunday services for an accessible option, and put air filters in your spaces
6. Preach liberation, going deep to understand the systemic roots of the oppression you're seeing and being willing to take radical stances grounded in the gospel
7. Care for each others' needs within your congregation. No one goes hungry, no one gets evicted, no one struggles to find childcare, no one is left alone without visitors.

7. Care for each others' needs within your congregation. No one goes hungry, no one gets evicted, no one struggles to find childcare, no one is left alone without visitors, no one struggles to access healthcare or goes to an appointment alone, no one faces shame over debt. Include congregational mutual aid in your budget
8. Learn and study so everyone is equipped for solidarity work. Teach theology that frees and supports solidarity and also practical skills and capabilities
9. Build interfaith and institutional relationships in an ongoing and relational way through support groups/ chats/circles
10. Donate your property to groups in need. Never leave it empty and unused.

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Hannah Bowman @hannahnpbowman.com · 07/01/2025

We chalked the door for Epiphany last night! May we all find illumination, clarity, and hospitality in this season

A white door in a yellow wall with 20+K+M+B+25 written above the door in purple chalk

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Hannah Bowman @hannahnpbowman.com · 06/01/2025

Merry Christmas, all. Twelve whole days.

A brightly-colored Advent wreath with four candles and a silver one in the center all lit.

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Hannah Bowman @hannahnpbowman.com · 28/12/2024

Without downloading any pictures, what energy are you bringing into 2025?

Meryl Streep in Mamma Mia making the sign of the cross

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Hannah Bowman @hannahnpbowman.com · 26/12/2024

Made the @seriouseats.bsky.social Caesar roasted potatoes for Christmas dinner, with beef roulades with spinach and mushroom filling.

Caesar roasted potatoes in a white dish in front of a lit Advent wreath

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Hannah Bowman @hannahnpbowman.com · 25/12/2024

Instead of the Feast of the Seven Fishes we’re calling this the Feast of the Seven (or so) Salads. Merry Christmas!

Plate with gravlax, lentil salad, potato salad, celery salad, eggplant, beets, herring, and smoked mussels

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Hannah Bowman @hannahnpbowman.com · 30/11/2024

My 7-year-old and I made an amazing apple-cranberry pie

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Hannah Bowman @hannahnpbowman.com · 28/11/2024

Made an apple-cranberry pie with my 7-year-old. I am proud.

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Hannah Bowman @hannahnpbowman.com · 25/05/2024

When parenting is fun: my 6-year-old and I made a Lego Christmas train this morning. Including a penguin, Elsa ice palace, chorus of princesses, and a tiny pet train-on-train. ☺️

A Lego train with Christmas designs on it, including Princess Zelda and a penguin and a Christmas tree

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Hannah Bowman @hannahnpbowman.com · 23/04/2024

I’m not Jewish but my Jewish heritage means my family has always done something for Passover (it’s complicated); anyway I threw together a Seder plate at the last minute for our family Zoom and it’s the most toddler Seder plate ever.

Seder plate on a toddler plate with carrot, broccoli, horseradish, egg, orange, salt water, and applesauce.

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Hannah Bowman @hannahnpbowman.com · 11/04/2024

OK but sometimes the juxtaposition of sources for my thesis is hilarious. Alphabetization makes strange bedfellows.

Ahmed, Sara. Queer Phenomenology: Orientations, Objects, Others. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2006.

Alexander, Michelle. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness. New York: New Press, 2010.

Althaus-Reid, Marcella. Indecent Theology: Theological Perversions in Sex, Gender, and Politics. London: Routledge, 2000.

Anselm. Cur Deus Homo. In St. Anselm: Basic Writings, translated by S.N. Deane. La Salle, IL: Open Court Publishing Company, 1962. 191–302.

Anzaldúa, Gloria. Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza. San Francisco: Aunt Lute Books, 1987.

Augustine of Hippo. The City of God. Accessed 22 February 2024. https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/1201.htm.

Bergmann, Sigurd. “Theology in its Spatial Turn: Space, Place and Built Environments Challenging and Changing the Images of God.” Religion Compass 1 no. 3 (2007): 353–379, doi: 10.1111/j.1749-8171.2007.00025.x.

Bhabha, Homi. The Location of Culture. London: Routledge, 1994.

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