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kwanetaharris.bsky.social
Incarcerated Journalist, Writer, and Activist. Exposing the abuses and conditions suffered by incarcerated women daily. Account managed by assistant. Currently recruiting volunteers for freedom campaign! kwanetaharris.com kwanetaharris.substack.com
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Introducing WRITE OR DIE: Raw Dispatches from Texas Women’s Prisons, a new Substack by Kwaneta Harris. This publication — delivered directly to your inbox — is an extension of Kwaneta’s writing and analysis on firsthand experiences of incarceration. kwanetaharris.substack.com

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Introducing WRITE OR DIE: Raw Dispatches from Texas Women’s Prisons, a new Substack by Kwaneta Harris. This publication — delivered directly to your inbox — is an extension of Kwaneta’s writing and analysis on firsthand experiences of incarceration. kwanetaharris.substack.com

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

For @kwanetaharris.bsky.social, being moved to “Medium Custody” feels “Like Gaslighting, Telling Us We’re More Free While Finding News Ways to Emulate Solitary Confinement.” Her latest for @solitarywatch.bsky.social : solitarywatch.org/2025/02/04/2...

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As of last week, Kwaneta’s tablet has been replaced! She is diligently working to catch up on messages and appreciates folks’ patience and support. Thank you to any and everyone who called, emailed, and otherwise assisted in getting this matter resolved. Happy New Year!

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Thank you to any and everyone who has reached out and expressed concern about Kwaneta! Her tablet has been broken for over a week. Please email ([email protected]) or DM her via social media (@kwanetaharris) and her assistant will relay messages during their weekly call.

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@kwanetaharris.bsky.social wraps the year with a powerful essay for @solitarywatch.bsky.social about her transition out of eight years in solitary confinement. Solitary Watch has also announced Kwaneta as its newest contributing writer! solitarywatch.org/2024/12/19/i...

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Just because you can't do everything doesn't mean that you can't do something. Your 'something' matters to 'someone.'

submitted 74 days ago • 36 comments

Our latest issue features four of the smartest, most important narrative interventions about the election, its results, and its implications for the left that have been published in the month since November 5th. Here are four of those pieces from our contributors:

submitted 74 days ago • 1 comment

We’re saddened to hear about the passing of poetry great and Black Arts Movement icon, Nikki Giovanni. According to NPR, she passed away today, following her third cancer diagnosis. She was 81 years old. Rest in power, Nikki Giovanni ✨

submitted 75 days ago • 45 comments

From Kwaneta, report from the inside, 12/09/24: "I was denied my media interview under the pretense that I can't discuss my case. Even though it was about COVID. (1 / 4)

submitted 75 days ago • 1 comment

From Kwaneta, report from the inside, 12/09/24: "I was denied my media interview under the pretense that I can't discuss my case. Even though it was about COVID. (1 / 4)

submitted 75 days ago • 1 comment

Thank you, your support and continued readership means the world!

submitted 78 days ago • 0 comments

Welcoming my dear friend, the amazing incarcerated journalist @kwanetaharris.bsky.social, to BlueSky!!! You can read her work here: www.kwanetaharris.com

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Want to directly support @kwanetaharris.bsky.social? Consider joining her freedom campaign! Help us circulate this flyer and interest form as we work to build her team. We need folks with all different kinds of skillsets; there's a place for you! Interest form: bit.ly/j4kfcvolunteer

submitted 79 days ago • 2 comments

Solitary confinement is essentially torture.

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Kwaneta has survived 17+ years incarcerated, 8.5 in solitary. She continues to live with the trauma of medical neglect, isolation, and retaliation. But she still fights! In her own words: "I recognize my first amendment rights are limited, but they aren't absent. All I have left is my voice."

submitted 79 days ago • 0 comments

Survivors of intimate partner violence (IPV) are often forced to choose between the violence of the state or their partner. I talked to No Body Criminalized about "criminalized survivors" and abolition feminism. 💜🎧:http://no-body-criminalized.simplecast.com/episodes

submitted 87 days ago • 2 comments

The criminal legal system is the primary response to gender-based violence in the US, but victims of violence who don’t conform to stereotypes about “perfect” victims are punished harshly by that system every day-come for the anger-inducing stories, stay for the abolition feminism.

submitted 98 days ago • 2 comments

Kwaneta Harris is a former nurse, business owner and expat, now incarcerated journalist and a @haymarketbooks.org Writing Freedom Fellow. Her powerful and shocking stories expose how the intersection of gender, race and place contribute to state-sanctioned, gender-based violence. kwanetaharris.com

submitted 79 days ago • 5 comments