My new book is out today :) With Coercion I wanted to dedicate a book to unpacking at the most granular level how abortion bans aren't just some abstract political debate but state gender-based violence w/ material consequences that can't be ignored. more about the project below:

This stuff fills me with incredible dread—not least because of how it’s basically a given that there won’t be any political debate over such things. There’s no expectation that we, the people, should have any say in how our resources are squandered and abused.

Update: this applies even more so to current and former Drag Race contestants

Introducing a new 6-part series revisiting the landmark insights of Ruth Wilson Gilmore's 'Golden Gulag', exploring what prison abolitionists can learn from the history of carceral expansion. With RWG, Craig Gilmore Lydia Pelot-Hobbs & Judah Schept inquest.org/abolitionist-l…

It’s worse than “Gaza is being starved and destroyed and no one cares.” It’s that hundreds of millions *do* care and are powerless to stop it. We need a world where that can never happen, where the masses actually have political power.

Are orgs, people, actions, etc moving us toward material wins? Are they advancing our causes? Are they pushing the culture? Those are the metrics of evaluation, not whether something is or is not the revolution.

“We must destroy the prison root and branch. That will not solve our problem, but it will be a good beginning. When I speak of the prison, I mean the mechanical structure, the instrument, the technique, the method which the prison involves.” Frank Tannembaum, Wall Shadows (1922)

This seems like not good but GREAT news, stop cop cities everywhere