These experts explore California’s complicated and ugly past while also shedding light on the national ramifications, both good and bad, legal and cultural, of the largest state in the West Coast’s liberal stronghold.”
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Get your tickets 🎟️ @latimes.com Festival of Books. See you there!
What will we be talking about? ⬇️🔥🎤
“California has recently emerged as a liberal stronghold in the fight against encroaching fascism, but the Golden State is far from having a clean slate when it comes to racial discrimination, institutional brutality, and white supremacy…
Appreciate LA Times Festival of Books @latimes.com for inviting me back this year for the important, timely panel: “Not All That Glitters: The Unclean Slate of the Golden State” at the Ray Stark Family Theatre on Saturday Apr 18th from 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM. (learn more ⬇️)
CONVERSATIONS IN BLACK FREEDOMS IUDIES THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 6:30 PM IN-PERSON AT THE SCHOMBURG CEN. I. .E..R & ED ONLINE p L CINO Bl ~ CKNESS: RESISTING REPRESSION, POLICE VIOLENCE, & SURVEILLANCE WliTl-ll IBIR,TTANfVR lEOM..ANAJ~A RON! G, FOUNTAINJ R,. LASHAWN HARRtS.&, .JOSHUAC LARK DAVIS MODERATED BY JEANNE THEOHARIS & ROBYN C. SPENCER-ANTOINE register at bit_ly/4a23TxD blackfreedamstudtes .o. r9 participating teachers wilt recet'le 1. 5. CTle credit hours
Looking forward to our discussion on "Policing Blackness: Resisting Repression, Police Violence, and Surveillance" this Thursday at the Schomburg with @madameclair08.bsky.social @curlyprofessor.bsky.social @aaronfountainjr.bsky.social @jeannetheoharis.bsky.social and Robyn Spencer-Antoine!
This is the event that @joshuaclarkdavis.bsky.social @curlyprofessor.bsky.social @madameclair08.bsky.social, and I participated in at the Schomburg Center. #skystorians #booksky. It was an honor to be invited.
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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📖
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Congratulations to 2025-2026 ASA POP Fellow Brittany Friedman! @curlyprofessor.bsky.social @uscsociology.bsky.social @usc.edu bit.ly/POPfellows%E...
@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
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“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
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The cover of the book Carceral Apartheid by Dr Brittany Friedman.
@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
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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! 🗃️
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@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
Thank you! 🙏🏼
Thanks so much for highlighting my recent interview with AAIHS!
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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.
Thank you!! 💜 I so appreciated your kindness and am excited to read your latest novel! 💫
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!
Countdown begins!
📍NYC - arrived ✅
Thank you! @robgreeneii.bsky.social
📢 TONIGHT! NYC
Event has been moved to the Main Location of Word Up Community Books!
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"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 👇
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