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Miriam Vishniac, MPP, PhD @miriamvishniac.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Today marks 3 years since Netanyahu ignored warnings and let Hamas attack. If your ‘allyship’ includes attacking Jews who disagree and think Palestinians are humans too, you are not an ally. Dissent and questioning power is the most Jewish action I know. L’chaim. ✊🏻✡️🇵🇸 Peace is for everyone.

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Miriam Vishniac, MPP, PhD @miriamvishniac.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Dear Ted Lasso, why would you hurt me like this?

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Miriam Vishniac, MPP, PhD @miriamvishniac.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

By not requiring prisons to replace removed products, prisons put a timer on visitation and make people choose between seeing their loved ones and staining themselves.

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Prison Flow Project @prisonflowproject.org · 31/08/2026

This Friday, September 4th, our inaugural report on rules of menstrual product provision in US women's prisons drops!

Cover image featuring a bloody tampon on a pink background. Free to Bleed: Rules on Menstrual Products in US Women's Prisons. September 2026. The Prison Flow Project. Providing information, period.

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Miriam Vishniac, MPP, PhD @miriamvishniac.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Losing Dolly Parton and Tim Curry in the same week is hard as hell. I have too many feels. Go tell your queer friends you love them. Someone PLEASE bubblewrap John Waters!

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Prison Flow Project @prisonflowproject.org · 25/08/2026

We just finished the 2026 version of the complete list of women's prison facilities in the US. Check it out!

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Miriam Vishniac, MPP, PhD @miriamvishniac.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

New blog post, using critical data from @prisonpolicy.org and @theappeal.org! Forcing people to purchase necessities enforces period poverty in prison.

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Prison Flow Project @prisonflowproject.org · 30/07/2026

Publication alert! Board member and researcher @reganmoss20.bsky.social analyzes how claiming menstrual products are accessible because they're sold in the prison commissary is a lie. doi.org/10.1177/1078...

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Miriam Vishniac, MPP, PhD @miriamvishniac.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Our latest blog post is up! Remember, you can get our monthly newsletter and our blog posts will be delivered straight to your inbox. Sign up on our website!

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Miriam Vishniac, MPP, PhD @miriamvishniac.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Lindsey Graham was a coward and a monster who openly called for genocide and murder and the world is a better place without him. If you advocate for death and capitulate to a rapist pedophile, do not expect to be mourned.

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Miriam Vishniac, MPP, PhD @miriamvishniac.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

On the way to Michigan, @americanair.bsky.social delayed and cancelled our flight, leaving us scrambling. Now on the way back, first flight is not an option because airport equipment is down. I never want to fly again.

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Miriam Vishniac, MPP, PhD @miriamvishniac.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

If Dems can now find a replacement for Platner then I guess we never actually had to stick with the guy with a nazi tattoo in the first place, huh?

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Miriam Vishniac, MPP, PhD @miriamvishniac.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

On the way to a family vacay for a week. Phone disconnected from work email on the way to the airport and I don’t have the password memorized. 😭

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Miriam Vishniac, MPP, PhD @miriamvishniac.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

IT’S MY BIRTHDAY LOOK AT MY PRECIOUS STIMKY SON!

A small, three-legged cat laying tummy up on a soft bed. His tummy is white and fluffy. He has a collar with a little orange bow-tie and a tiny black soul patch on his white chin.

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Miriam Vishniac, MPP, PhD @miriamvishniac.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Nothing like being told by a journal claiming to center feminist criminology that your paper on menstrual-driven harms in prison is inappropriate for them. I guess periods are always someone else’s problem. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 20/06/2026

This is Nolan. His humans have kissed all the color off of his face over the last ten years. Some seniors are silver foxes, he is a silver sweetie pie. 13/10 #SeniorPupSaturday (FB: Alyssa Woznicki)

the frame is split into two photos. the one on the left shows a black dog with a very subtle white stripe down his nose as well as a slightly gray patch on his chest. the image on the right shows the same pup a decade later. his face and legs are nearly all white now.

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 16/06/2026

TOMORROW we're talking to Cyptografur Soatok and Equilabs founder Luísa Franco Machado about censorship and targeted surveillance facing LGBTQ+ communities. Join us and learn how to push back. eff.org/livestream-...

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EFFecting Change: LGBTQ+ Solidarity Against the Tide of Surveillance

LGBTQ+ communities are facing an escalating wave of censorship and targeted surveillance, but we can push back through mutual solidarity. Join us live to learn how safer virtual spaces get built, how

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Miriam Vishniac, MPP, PhD @miriamvishniac.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Marsha P’s body was found floating in the Hudson. The police ruled it a suicide and quickly closed the case even though she had a head wound and did not have signs of suicidal ideation. Supporting her memory also means calling out police violence, every damn day. #pride

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Miriam Vishniac, MPP, PhD @miriamvishniac.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

I fucking loved Persepolis. What a loss for women everywhere. ❤️

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Miriam Vishniac, MPP, PhD @miriamvishniac.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

My stimky son has decided to dip his paws in any water cups I leave out, so I must now use a thermos. #catladyproblems

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Miriam Vishniac, MPP, PhD @miriamvishniac.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

I cannot stress enough, it is your legal obligation to be gay this month.

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Miriam Vishniac, MPP, PhD @miriamvishniac.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

I still ache to hear my sweet boy purr again. Grief fucking sucks.

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Miriam Vishniac, MPP, PhD @miriamvishniac.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Another manuscript rejection, another day! I look forward to the time when academics are willing to see periods as a central concern rather than a ‘niche’ issue.

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Miriam Vishniac, MPP, PhD @miriamvishniac.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Giving my butthead tripod son a bow tie collar is like giving him +20 charisma, and I regret it deeply.

A small, grey tuxedo cat rests in a nightstand shelf. He has an orange bow tie collar around his neck. His big eyes claim innocence. To the left are charging cables that had to be moved away so he wouldn’t mess with them.

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Prison Flow Project @prisonflowproject.org · 13/05/2026

THIS FRIDAY, 3pm ET. Learn more about periods in places of confinement from three experts! Register here: bit.ly/4u3g9GB

Menstrual Justice Behind Bars: Policy, Dignity, and Systematic Change. Spring 2026 Webinar. Friday, May 15tth, 2026. 3:00 PM ET (12 PM PT). What is Menstrual Injustice in Carceral Spaces? What Does Change Look Like? What is the Human Cost of Menstrual Neglect? Panelists: Gabrielle Perry, the Thurman Perry Foundation; Chantal Allison-Konteh, Alliance for Period Supplies; Traci Beaucoudray, Operation Restoration. Register and Learn More at https://bit.ly/4u3g9GB (QR CODE). Moderated by Prison Flow Project Board member and founder of the Ohio Coalition for Menstrual Equity, Kayelin Tiggs.

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Miriam Vishniac, MPP, PhD @miriamvishniac.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

My sweet son has passed. RIP, Professor Pudding, champion of snugs and love and never-ending purrs.

A grey tuxedo cat on a teal blanket on the back of a couch. He is in a Sailor Moon uniform, with his front paws crossed.

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Miriam Vishniac, MPP, PhD @miriamvishniac.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Somehow I missed a call from the ER vet at 7:20 and again at 10 asking for approval for a new treatment plan because I am a bad mom and if Pudd doesn’t come home tomorrow it’s my fault.

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Miriam Vishniac, MPP, PhD @miriamvishniac.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Professor Pudding’s congestive heart failure took a sudden turn for the worse, and we spent much of the day at the vet to get the fluid out of his lungs. He is at the ER overnight. I miss my son.

A grey cat curled up and looking down in a carrier.

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Miriam Vishniac, MPP, PhD @miriamvishniac.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

I accidentally left a mark in a library book and now I KNOW I’m going to hell. 😓

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Miriam Vishniac, MPP, PhD @miriamvishniac.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

As hard as starting a research nonprofit is, I would still MUCH rather be doing that than working on a PhD again. 😬 That is how hard a PhD is.

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Miriam Vishniac, MPP, PhD @miriamvishniac.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Lauryn Hill’s support for Kanye West is as disappointing as it is disgusting. I’m horrified that his show sold out and that he even got a venue. We do not support Nazis.

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Miriam Vishniac, MPP, PhD @miriamvishniac.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

This is the contented sleep of an absolute criminal, make no mistake.

A small grey tuxedo cat on a stool. He is missing his back right leg and is curled up happily, belly up.

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Miriam Vishniac, MPP, PhD @miriamvishniac.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

There is no excuse for supporting the new Harry Potter series, which directly funds an anti-trans millionaire who aims to do more harm. Trans lives fucking matter.

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Miriam Vishniac, MPP, PhD @miriamvishniac.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

It is amazing how much praise people give my work while still refusing to hire me.

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Miriam Vishniac, MPP, PhD @miriamvishniac.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

If we’re on a Zoom call talking seriously and you don’t introduce me to your pets, what are we even doing here?

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Miriam Vishniac, MPP, PhD @miriamvishniac.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Using actual lists of Jews to ‘fight antisemitism’ is like saying you’re using the KKK to fight racism.

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Prison Flow Project @prisonflowproject.org · 31/03/2026

#transrights forever! We support ALL people who menstruate, including women, men, nonbinary and genderqueer individuals, and intersex individuals.

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Miriam Vishniac, MPP, PhD @miriamvishniac.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

What ICE is doing is utterly evil, and I need people to understand also what we have already been doing to our fellow citizens in prisons and jails for decades.

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Miriam Vishniac, MPP, PhD @miriamvishniac.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Watching ‘How to Get to Heaven From Belfast’ on Netflix by Lisa McGee. She specializes in writing tenacious Irish women and I fucking love it. I would watch paint dry with this woman.

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Miriam Vishniac, MPP, PhD @miriamvishniac.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

It is wild that the surest way to get the US Congress to act is not the death of citizens or concentration camps but long lines at airports that they might get stuck in. 😑

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