So excited for this new book by Kathi Weeks!!
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So excited for this new book by Kathi Weeks!!
“How many of these gentle people have I helped to kill just by paying my taxes?" June Jordan, 1984
There you go. An overt technofascist Trump ally will now own CBS, CNN, HBO, Paramount, Warner Brothers, Discovery, and a big chunk of TikTok
As of tonight, licenses of trans people across Kansas are being invalidated en masse, enabling the overnight criminalization of an entire group of people for going about our lives. It’s often said you never know when you’re living through history, so let me assure you: that’s what’s happening now.
“Four of my children just evaporated,” Badran said, holding back tears. “I looked for them a million times. Not a piece was left. Where did they go?”
There are no words to adequately describe the evil here.
"They say they're coming to save us from some evil? They're talking about our neighbors who take care of us ... Alex was murdered while he was helping. Mr Rogers said look for the helpers, & right now the helpers have a target on our forehead ... Mr Rogers would be here right now too, so I'm here."
When they propose spending increases on violence work, you can treat that as a big pot of money that should be given to life affirming things instead.
probably should abolish the police at the same time just to be safe
We rely on the volunteer support from everyday people to get this important mahi done - if you can this year, please consider donating to our Holiday Card Drive fundraiser here: givealittle.co.nz/cause/send-p...
We invite you along to draw, write, or decorate holiday cards to go to people behind bars during this holiday season, whilst sharing kai & connection with other wonderful people from the community.
Image description: Picture of the following text: “Prisoner Correspondence Network Holiday Card Drive 2025 Come along and share some hope with our incarcerated whānau this holiday season! Ōtepoti Sun 23rd November 1-4pm Fua Lelei Room 42 Macandrew Bay Road Kai, cards and pens provided”
Ōtepoti friends & whānau, come along to our Holiday Card Drive event on Sunday 23 November from 1-4pm at the Fua Lelei Room, Catholic Social Services, 42 Macandrew Bay Road. www.facebook.com/events/13638...
can’t wait to read this, need to order asap!
We’re launching a website of revolutionary speculative fiction, art and poetry set in the world of Everything for Everyone! We’re calling it Project 2052. To support author honoraria, subscribe as a sustainer, make a one-time donation, or pitch a story here: www.commonnotions.org/project2052.
Poster sharing about Ōtepoti Holiday Card Drive 2025; come along and share some hope with our incarcerated whānau this holiday season. Sunday 23rd Nov 1pm-4pm Fua Lelei Room 42 Macandrew Bay Rd. Kai, cards, and pens provided.
this coming Sunday, Ōtepoti!! @papa.org.nz @pcn.nz
Image one description: Picture of the PAPA logo with the following white text above the logo on top of a black and red background: "PAPA Mobilisation Prisoners Clothing Protest 1PM 16 November Auckland Region Womens Correction Facility 20 Hautu Drive, Wiri, Manukau City Help Fight For Better! www.papa.org.nz"
Image two description: Picture of an artistic depiction of a clothes line with the following white text on top of a red and black background and next to the PAPA logo: "Our Demands: - A minimum standard of providing clothing for prisoners. - Corrections to follow their own regulations around providing clothing to prisoners - Halt all prison expansions. - All prisoners to be provided appropriate and hygenic supplies. Tāmaki Makaurau | 16 November"
Image three description: Picture of an artistic depiction of clothes in front of Māori iconography and with a broken chain and the PAPA logo around both, with the following pink text around the picture and on top of a red and brown background: "Prisoner Clothing Protest Dignity For Victims of Dispossessive Colonial Accumulation Fund Our Future Not Incarceration Invest In The Classroom, Not the Cell Block Minimum Standards Of Care For Prisoners Now! Halt All Megaprison Expansions! November 16th 1pm Outside Auckland Regional Women's Corrections Facility 20 Hautu Drive, Wiri, Manukau City"
Image four description: Picture of a poster by Min Iles that contains the following text surrounded by chains and locks: ""Clothing or footwear that is provided by the prison must be adequate for safety, warmth, comfort and health." - Corrections Regulations 20025, Clause 68 (In others words, THE LAW)"
People Against Prisons Aotearoa invites you to support us in calling on the Department of Corrections to give people in prisons appropriate clothing and hygienic supplies on Sunday 16 November from 1PM outside Auckland Region Womens Corrections Facility. www.facebook.com/events/68706...
The value of reading history is you know that in 1860 there were abolitionists who were so demoralized that they thought chattel slavery would be permanent. 5 years later those still alive had lived to see its end.
No efforts to reform policing have ever been successful because the police cannot be reformed - they are enemies of equality that we must struggle against and overcome.
The massive cover-up of allegations made against former Deputy Commissioner Jevon McSkimming gets right at key contradictions in policing itself. The police exist in order to maintain social order - but that social order is fundamentally unjust.
Image one description The image has a clothes rack with different coloured shirts and pants on it. Below is black text in a white box with a pink border. The text reads as follows: “People in prison are unable to access basic clothing items.”
Image two description The image contains a text-based post against a brown background. At the top is a white text box with a pink border, the text is orange. Under this there are four bullet points with images of underwear, socks, a t-shirt and shoes. Underneath is some orange text. The text reads as follows: “In the 2024/2025 year, PAPA has provided people in prison with: 240 pairs of underwear, 255 pairs of socks, 102 thermals, 111 pairs of shoes. Corrections is legally responsible for providing reasonable clothing requests! Are underwear, shoes, socks and warm clothes not reasonable?”
Image three description The image has a white title on a black background and below it black text in a white text box with a pink border. On the bottom left side there is a stack on money. The text reads as follows: “Where is the money going??? In 2022 it cost roughly $151,000 per year to imprison someone. This is more than double the average yearly NZ salary ($65,749). Where is the money going if not providing basic?”
Image four description The image contains a text-based post against a brown background. One text box is white with orange around it and the other is pink with white around it. The text reads as follows: “People in prison are made to make requests for their basic property needs. When they get told no, they have to request items externally or go without. Why is the burden of being warm, safe, and comfortable put on those already suffering?”
The Department of Corrections is failing to provide people basic necessities like hygenic bedding, underwear, socks, shoes and thermals. This is a breach of human rights and a failure to care for those in state care. Sign our petition: our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/ge...
We invite you along to draw, write, or decorate holiday cards to go to people behind bars during this holiday season, whilst sharing kai & connection with other wonderful people from the community.
Image description: Picture of holiday cards from the Holiday Card Drive with the following text above the picture: "Send prisoners some holiday cheer! Help the Prisoner Correspondence Network send holiday cards to hundreds of prisoners in Aotearoa."
We are holding our 9th annual holiday card drive! We’ll be sending holiday cards to hundreds of incarcerated people. We rely on the volunteer support from everyday people to get this important mahi done - if you can this year, please donate to our fundraiser: givealittle.co.nz/cause/send-p...
Demand that NZ's Unisaver divest from Israel and companies complicit in occupation and genocide docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
ah two of my faves, what a treat!!! my fav things I’ve read this year are def enemy feminisms, the politics of emotional life, and everything for everyone: an oral history of the New York commune 2052-2072 (also the main subjects of my lectures/conversations/monologues over the last six months)
Love this! I wrote about Noem with Lewis’s enemy feminisms framing, may be of interest: blindfieldjournal.com/2025/06/04/n...
So called "prison riots" are a last resort protest against intolerable, inhumane conditions. We need an investigation and full transparency around what prompted this. www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
timothy_thelen 7h Follow Them - You can't throw sandwiches at ICE Agents. Grabs a hot dog. "I guess we'll finally answer the old question."
Experimental philosophy
Firing and demoralizing feminized jobs as enemies of the state while brazenly bribing men with violent jobs that almost instantly puts them into the middle of middle class is very basic gendered warfare. Fulfilling the manosphere’s promise.
Week in Review:
Humour mixed with anger at the first day of a 'people's select committee' on the Government's controversial pay equity changes.
I used Sophie Lewis’s ‘enemy feminisms’ framing to try to situate her in line with other historical fascist women here (with the help of some of your writing, love your work): blindfieldjournal.com/2025/06/04/n...
