I wrote an essay about how we get to the other side of patriarchy. The essay is about my father, a prison cell, a jar, and what I’ve learned after a decade of unlearning.
It’s free on Substack. Linktree in bio.
If it moves you, share it with someone who needs it.
#healingmasculinity #menswork
NEW YORK BOOK LAUNCH:
October 16 @ 6pm
Ghost Criminal Justice Machine: Reform, White Supremacy, and an Abolitionist Future, Emile Suotonye DeWeaver in conversation with NYU Associate Researcher, Itzel Corona Aguilar.
RSVP TODAY: steinhardt.nyu.edu/events/book-...
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NEW EPISODE!
Ep 136: The Ghost of White Supremacy with @emilesdeweaver.bsky.social
We’re joined by the activist, organizer, and writer Emile Suotonye DeWeaver, author most recently of Ghost in the Criminal Justice Machine: Reform, White Supremacy, and an Abolitionist Future.
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Santa Cruz Book Launch: Ghost in the Criminal Justice Machine | Jul 18, 2025, 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM @ucscartsdivision.bsky.social Santa Cruz, 100 Panetta Ave
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Chicago! June 24: launch of Ghost in the Criminal Justice Machine: Reform, White Supremacy, and an Abolitionist Future @thenewpress.bsky.social at @haymarkethouse.bsky.social . Emile Suotonye DeWeaver in conversation with longtime abolitionist organizer and author @mayaschenwar.bsky.social.
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Thank you, Quentin Hardy, for coming to the launch of Ghost in the Criminal Justice Machine in Oakland and featuring it in your newsletter.
Read the full article: thenewcuriosityshop.substack.com/p/fix-your-i...
The Bay Area Book Fest is this weekend! Catch me on Sunday, June 1: Ghosts of Justice: Exposing the Failures and Reimagining the Future of the American Legal System
Emile Suotonye DeWeaver, Dorsey E. Nunn, Gianna Toboni
Moderator: Piper Kerman
More Info: www.reframeconsults.com/event-detail...
Bay Area: Emile Suotonye DeWeaver on tour
🔸June 1: Bay Area Book Fest with Dorsey E. Nunn, Gianna Toboni, moderated by Piper Kerman
🔸June 3: at Clio’s Books with James King from the Ella Baker Center
🔸June 4: Meet the Authors: in conversation with Lenore Anderson
🔸June 20: UC Santa Cruz
Bay Area: Emile Suotonye DeWeaver on tour.
Ghost in the Criminal Justice Machine: Reform, White Supremacy, and an Abolitionist Future @thenewpress.bsky.social
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After 21 years of incarceration, former client @emilesdeweaver.bsky.social found healing through writing. Now an award-winning writer and activist, with a new book launch and a tour ahead: www.reframeconsults.com/events
We’re honored to witness his journey, transformation, and growth.
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For more from Emile Suotonye DeWeaver: @emilesdeweaver.bsky.social thenewpress.org/books/ghost-...
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"Mine was one of many lives the state had condemned to end slowly."
"[W]hat can we do if all the characteristics we've experienced in contemporary society are white supremacist characteristics? Can we imagine the unimaginable? In a word, yes."
#USA #Incarceration
I hope to see you on the tour for Ghost in the Criminal Justice Machine: Confirmed dates in Oakland, San Francisco, Santa Cruz and Chicago: www.reframeconsults.com/events - please RSVP!
I felt like I didn’t have the best language to have this conversation. I dedicated the next years to thinking this through.
Ghost in the Criminal Justice System is an offering of frameworks to be shared with your communities so we can have these conversations, so we can come up with solutions.
I wrote this book for many reasons. I’d been organizing for a decade in prison, and I witnessed the ways we in justice work have beautiful, courageous intentions and yet we often exacerbate the problems we fight against.
It’s publication day for Ghost in the Criminal Justice Machine: Reform, White Supremacy, and an Abolitionist Future by Emile Suotonye DeWeaver, my debut, out with The New Press @thenewpress.bsky.social.
Drawing on his lived experience and years of organizing from inside, DeWeaver challenges the assumptions behind rehabilitation and reform, and imagines a path toward true abolition.
On sale now-save 30% with code TNP30 at checkout through this link: thenewpress.org/books/ghost-...
From @thenewpress.bsky.social:
After 21 years in prison,
Emile Suotonye DeWeaver wrote GHOST IN THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE MACHINE—a bold and deeply personal examination of how white supremacy distorts criminal justice reform.
Ghost in the Criminal Justice Machine: Reform, White Supremacy, and an Abolitionist Future (The New Press) comes out in a week and I will be on tour. More info and RSVP:
www.reframeconsults.com/events
Oakland book launch for Ghost in the Criminal Justice Machine (The New Press) by Emile Suotonye DeWeaver in conversation with Nayomi Munaweera at Understory.
May 17, 5:00-7:00 pm
“Despite reform efforts that have grown in scope and intensity over the last two decades, the machine of American mass incarceration continues to flourish.” search.app/jQDa4boeCM5h...
Cat Brooks interviews Emile Suotonye DeWeaver about Ghost in the Criminal Justice Machine.
Thank you to Leon Garber and Alen Ulman from Seize the Moment Podcast for a great conversation.
Emile Suotonye DeWeaver - The Near Enemy of Justice: Dismantling Mass Incarceration | STM #238
www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3qE...
It’s independent bookstore day. Celebrate by supporting your local bookstore pre-ordering Ghost in the Criminal Justice Machine, or online, go to Bookshop.org Free shipping! bookshop.org/p/books/note...
It's a pre-order party for Ghost in the Criminal Justice Machine: Reform, White Supremacy, and an Abolitionist Future and for Samiya Bashir's I Hope This Helps, emceed by Raychelle Heath!
It's the first official look at my forthcoming collection of essays.
Come party with me, Samiya Bashir, and the Unicorn Authors Club online, Thursday, April 17 at 5pm PST.
Register here: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Read a lot more about the imagination problem in Ghost in the Criminal Justice Machine Reform, White Supremacy, and an Abolitionist Future thenewpress.com/books/ghost-...
If groups in power can control what we experience, they can own our imaginations.
Read a little more about the imagination problem in my new substack post “New York Correctional Officers Strike” substack.com/@reframeconsults
Those who came before us and those who are bravely responding to what being thrown at us can serve as inspiration and motivation.
