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Literary agent @ Liza Dawson Associates, prison abolitionist, public theologian hannahnpbowman.com christiansforabolition.org Abolition Ecclesiology: A Spatial Theology for a Church Against Prisons (Fortress, forthcoming in 2026) She/her
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Two beautiful and life-affirming books coming out today: 1) A FAR BETTER THING by @hgparry.bsky.social, which answers the question “what if A TALE OF TWO CITIES had faery changelings in it?” and in doing so makes a work of profound sadness and hope us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

Oh it’s Forbidden Planet. But also, my dad introduced me to all the old SF writers and old SF movies and created my love of SF, which has absolutely determined the course of my professional life

Anyway, these are the folks who run the jails (it’s bad)

“The most anti-capitalist protest is to care for another and to care for yourself. To take on the historically feminized and therefore invisible practice of nursing, nurturing, caring. To take seriously each other’s vulnerability and fragility and precarity, and to support it, honor it, empower it…

L.A. TACO has confirmed with Brian Gavidia who filmed this troubling footage, that federal agents abducted his U.S.-born Mexican American friend, Javier Ramirez yesterday at 4 PM in Montebello. ~ @theglutster.bsky.social

This is absolutely horrifying

@prisonculture.bsky.social and I have been encouraging people to read chapter six of our book, Let This Radicalize You, which deals with the question of "violence" in social movements. We have decided to share the chapter publicly, to offer some context and grounding for the current conversation.

From All Saints Episcopal Church in San Francisco 🕯

I knew, from watching people sit in jails for years because they couldn’t make bail, that the slowness of our justice system is weaponized to coerce and terrorize everyday. It’s still upsetting to see it, every time.

This is despicable. These detentions are obviously intended to terrorize.

Democrats cannot possibly meet this moment because they can’t imagine a problem of disorder that isn’t solved through more policing. And in a moment of authoritarianism, policing essentially aligns one with the dictator rather than against him.

Care, by the way, is not the same as civility, or bipartisanship, or welcome, or non-disruptive tactics. I think too often our political and religious leaders veer away from verbal and strategic conflict (e.g.: hardball procedural tactics in Congress), but incivility isn't domination or lack of care

The whole story is domination versus care. We can live in ways characterized by domination or by care. Committing ourselves to care means the rejection of politics of domination. The church has to be all in on its rejection of domination and commitment to care ⚓

My next book comes out in ONE WEEK! Heracles refuses to harm the monsters he's pitted against, instead bonding with them and building the weirdest found family in history. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/773374...