Dr. Brittany Friedman

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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

Levan Book Chat—Brittany Friedman, Carceral Apartheid

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
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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...

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Guest: @curlyprofessor.bsky.social #blacksky #politics #podcast

@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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ICE agents are harassing the courthouse volunteers who assist besieged immigrants "They want to be doing this with no witnesses."

“They don’t want anyone to see how they treat people. They want to be doing this”—their deportations—”with no witnesses.”

Building Toward Abolition - Gina Dent & Sonali Kolhatkar - Inquest Abolition wouldn’t guarantee a society free from harm—but it could create a society in which the ways we address harm actually help people rebuild their lives.

"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...

United in Hate - Brittany Friedman - Inquest White civilians often spontaneously cooperate in acts of racial hatred. It’s a web of racist solidarity that Black people know all too well.

"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).
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#ScholarSunday Thread 226 Published on May 25, 2025

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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Carceral Apartheid | Brittany Friedman | University of North Carolina Press It is impossible to deny the impact of lies and white supremacy on the institutional conditions in US prisons. There is a particular power dynamic of racist ...

@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

We Were Never Meant to Obey: Weaving Abolitionist Constellations Abolition is not obedience undone, but freedom reclaimed. This essay weaves abolitionist constellations as maps toward justice and inner truth.

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! 💫

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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Carceral Apartheid: An Interview with Brittany Friedman - AAIHS In today’s post, Dr. Robert Greene II, the President of AAIHS and Assistant Professor of History at Claflin University, interviews award-winning sociologist Dr. Brittany Friedman about her first book,...

"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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NYC see you tomorrow w/ Darren Mack of Freedom Agenda! I have so much respect for Darren’s work to close Rikers and am honored to be in conversation. 🎙️

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This is Linda Martin. A few years ago, the FBI seized her life savings: $40,200.

The kicker: She was never charged with a crime—and the government couldn’t tell her why it took her money.

Martin is far from the first. But she is trying to make sure she is the last. A thread.

Los Angeles— see you tomorrow @latimes.com Festival of Books 🎙️📚 !!

This was such an amazing event!

See you soon Chicago!
Can’t wait to be in conversation w/ Reuben Miller on Wednesday @630pm at Volumes Bookcafe in Wicker Park.
Grab a ticket here:

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