Kristen Brock-Petroshius
@4heartsnminds.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Social Welfare
@stonybrooku | Attitude Change, Community Organizing, Equity Policies | views my own 🏳️🌈
https://kristenbrockpetroshius.com
@stonybrooku | Attitude Change, Community Organizing, Equity Policies | views my own 🏳️🌈
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My 1st paper on deep canvass organizing to build support for #anticarceral policies is now out in @socservreview.bsky.social ❗❗This was a herculean effort in collaboration with #WP4BL #ShowingUpforRacialJustice & many other organizers in LA. Here's a glimpse of the #FieldExperiment design. (1/7)
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In the latest series of Anti-Trans Hate Machine, we investigated the systematic deconstruction of the public education system.
The rabbit hole of how deep the plot goes led to a substantial amount of research into the network of far-right movements and their coordinated attacks.
The rabbit hole of how deep the plot goes led to a substantial amount of research into the network of far-right movements and their coordinated attacks.
November 25, 2025 at 12:00 PM
In the latest series of Anti-Trans Hate Machine, we investigated the systematic deconstruction of the public education system.
The rabbit hole of how deep the plot goes led to a substantial amount of research into the network of far-right movements and their coordinated attacks.
The rabbit hole of how deep the plot goes led to a substantial amount of research into the network of far-right movements and their coordinated attacks.
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As wave after wave of hospitals turn their back on trans youth, the Boston Children's Hospital is doing the opposite: doubling down on its care.
The hospital stated it's decision is "both a medical obligation and a moral one".
🔗 https://gayety.com/boston-hospital-trans-youth-care
The hospital stated it's decision is "both a medical obligation and a moral one".
🔗 https://gayety.com/boston-hospital-trans-youth-care
Boston Children’s Hospital Affirms Commitment to Trans Youth Care
Boston Children’s Hospital stands firm on providing gender-affirming care for trans youth, defying political pressure and right-wing attacks.
gayety.com
August 25, 2025 at 6:09 PM
As wave after wave of hospitals turn their back on trans youth, the Boston Children's Hospital is doing the opposite: doubling down on its care.
The hospital stated it's decision is "both a medical obligation and a moral one".
🔗 https://gayety.com/boston-hospital-trans-youth-care
The hospital stated it's decision is "both a medical obligation and a moral one".
🔗 https://gayety.com/boston-hospital-trans-youth-care
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The affordability crisis isn’t individual choices—it’s about concentrated corporate power & underinvestment.
To lower ⬇️ costs, raise wages 💸, and deliver real security, we need bold, public-minded interventions.
Our new fact sheet outlines solutions: rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...
To lower ⬇️ costs, raise wages 💸, and deliver real security, we need bold, public-minded interventions.
Our new fact sheet outlines solutions: rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...
Confronting the Cost-of-Living Crisis - Roosevelt Institute
Americans are being squeezed by unaffordable necessities—housing, health care, energy, childcare, food—while profits for corporations soar. The Roosevelt Institute offers blueprints for deploying publ...
rooseveltinstitute.org
August 25, 2025 at 6:07 PM
The affordability crisis isn’t individual choices—it’s about concentrated corporate power & underinvestment.
To lower ⬇️ costs, raise wages 💸, and deliver real security, we need bold, public-minded interventions.
Our new fact sheet outlines solutions: rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...
To lower ⬇️ costs, raise wages 💸, and deliver real security, we need bold, public-minded interventions.
Our new fact sheet outlines solutions: rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...
I'm excited to facilitate a session on deep canvass organizing as part of the NYC Anti-Criminalization Communiversity this fall. Check out these amazing sessions being offered and share with NYC folks.
www.interruptingcriminalization.com/communiversity
www.interruptingcriminalization.com/communiversity
Home — Interrupting Criminalization
www.interruptingcriminalization.com
August 22, 2025 at 12:34 PM
I'm excited to facilitate a session on deep canvass organizing as part of the NYC Anti-Criminalization Communiversity this fall. Check out these amazing sessions being offered and share with NYC folks.
www.interruptingcriminalization.com/communiversity
www.interruptingcriminalization.com/communiversity
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Anti-Criminalization Communiversity kicks off on Saturday with my Introduction to Restorative Justice Workshop. After months of planning we are here. I'm grateful to our small planning team and to Women Building Up for their partnership in this.
www.interruptingcriminalization.com/events/all/c...
www.interruptingcriminalization.com/events/all/c...
Anti-Criminalization Communiversity in NYC: August-November 2025 — Interrupting Criminalization
Interrupting Criminalization and Women Building Up have partnered up to offer an anti-criminalization “Communiversity” series of workshops and classes, taking place in person in Brooklyn, starting mid...
www.interruptingcriminalization.com
August 13, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Anti-Criminalization Communiversity kicks off on Saturday with my Introduction to Restorative Justice Workshop. After months of planning we are here. I'm grateful to our small planning team and to Women Building Up for their partnership in this.
www.interruptingcriminalization.com/events/all/c...
www.interruptingcriminalization.com/events/all/c...
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The criminals are taking over cities to “prevent crime.”
The neo-Nazis are crushing the universities to “fight antisemitism.”
The misogynists are eliminating trans rights to “protect women.”
The free speech billionaires are taking over media to “end cancel culture.”
I think they’re lying!
The neo-Nazis are crushing the universities to “fight antisemitism.”
The misogynists are eliminating trans rights to “protect women.”
The free speech billionaires are taking over media to “end cancel culture.”
I think they’re lying!
August 13, 2025 at 3:44 AM
The criminals are taking over cities to “prevent crime.”
The neo-Nazis are crushing the universities to “fight antisemitism.”
The misogynists are eliminating trans rights to “protect women.”
The free speech billionaires are taking over media to “end cancel culture.”
I think they’re lying!
The neo-Nazis are crushing the universities to “fight antisemitism.”
The misogynists are eliminating trans rights to “protect women.”
The free speech billionaires are taking over media to “end cancel culture.”
I think they’re lying!
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I wonder if the Columbia leadership realizes (or cares) how much blowback there might be from *within* the academy.
This post, from a Cornell Law professor, is worth reading:
3d.laboratorium.net/2025-07-25-c...
This post, from a Cornell Law professor, is worth reading:
3d.laboratorium.net/2025-07-25-c...
July 26, 2025 at 6:34 PM
I wonder if the Columbia leadership realizes (or cares) how much blowback there might be from *within* the academy.
This post, from a Cornell Law professor, is worth reading:
3d.laboratorium.net/2025-07-25-c...
This post, from a Cornell Law professor, is worth reading:
3d.laboratorium.net/2025-07-25-c...
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Also people previously convicted of felonies are people who have already been held responsible for whatever they are accused of doing
Deportation is basically second punishment
It does not matter whether folks are former “criminals” or not
No deportations!!
Deportation is basically second punishment
It does not matter whether folks are former “criminals” or not
No deportations!!
Trump’s ICE isn’t targeting violent criminals.
🔹 65% no criminal record
🔹 25% nonviolent offenses
🔹 Just 10% convicted of violent crimes
It’s a campaign of fear, ripping workers, street vendors, and moms away from families while claiming it’s about public safety. A lie. And cruelty by design.
🔹 65% no criminal record
🔹 25% nonviolent offenses
🔹 Just 10% convicted of violent crimes
It’s a campaign of fear, ripping workers, street vendors, and moms away from families while claiming it’s about public safety. A lie. And cruelty by design.
July 7, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Also people previously convicted of felonies are people who have already been held responsible for whatever they are accused of doing
Deportation is basically second punishment
It does not matter whether folks are former “criminals” or not
No deportations!!
Deportation is basically second punishment
It does not matter whether folks are former “criminals” or not
No deportations!!
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There have been claims that NOAA/NWS did not foresee catastrophic TX floods--but that's simply not true. This was undoubtedly an extreme event, but messaging rapidly escalated beginning ~12 hrs prior. Flood Watch mid PM, "heads up" outlook late PM, flash flood warnings ~1am.
WPC issued as many as six MPDs for the deadly flash flooding in the TX Hill Country starting yesterday evening and lasting through much of today. The first MPD generally set the stage for what was to come, while the next three shown were as the event unfolded.
July 5, 2025 at 3:50 PM
There have been claims that NOAA/NWS did not foresee catastrophic TX floods--but that's simply not true. This was undoubtedly an extreme event, but messaging rapidly escalated beginning ~12 hrs prior. Flood Watch mid PM, "heads up" outlook late PM, flash flood warnings ~1am.
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In every part of the US, incarceration is out of step with the rest of the world.
Even “progressive” states–like California & Illinois–have higher incarceration rates than countries with authoritarian governments.
So much for the "land of the free."
Even “progressive” states–like California & Illinois–have higher incarceration rates than countries with authoritarian governments.
So much for the "land of the free."
July 4, 2025 at 9:15 PM
In every part of the US, incarceration is out of step with the rest of the world.
Even “progressive” states–like California & Illinois–have higher incarceration rates than countries with authoritarian governments.
So much for the "land of the free."
Even “progressive” states–like California & Illinois–have higher incarceration rates than countries with authoritarian governments.
So much for the "land of the free."
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I’d argue the main question for American democracy is if the people can organize a powerful enough mass civil resistance movement to make this all possible.
the big questions for american democracy going forward seem to be (1) can the GOP actually build the federal police state they just funded, (2) in time to finish before democratic checks can be established, and (3) whether dems gaining power would actually try to stop/dismantle it
July 4, 2025 at 7:24 PM
I’d argue the main question for American democracy is if the people can organize a powerful enough mass civil resistance movement to make this all possible.
Why must I calculate how worth it it is to save a $1.50 candle based on how many years it will sit in the drawer til next use? 0 - that would be 6 years, too much, throw it out. But a 7?! Just 3 years in the drawer, somehow worth keeping….
July 3, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Why must I calculate how worth it it is to save a $1.50 candle based on how many years it will sit in the drawer til next use? 0 - that would be 6 years, too much, throw it out. But a 7?! Just 3 years in the drawer, somehow worth keeping….
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Just one more reminder that universities are not brave places. And if you’re part of a marginalized group, don’t count on your interests being protected when it really matters.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/u...
Penn Agrees to Limit Participation of Transgender Athletes
www.nytimes.com
July 1, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Just one more reminder that universities are not brave places. And if you’re part of a marginalized group, don’t count on your interests being protected when it really matters.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/u...
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I've covered race for two decades. I knew the 2nd Trump Admin would be dangerous for civil rights. Yet the collapse of the federal civil rights architecture and national will to address racial inequality and work on integration is stunning. Here's my latest. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/m...
How Trump Upended 60 Years of Civil Rights in Two Months
www.nytimes.com
June 27, 2025 at 2:31 PM
I've covered race for two decades. I knew the 2nd Trump Admin would be dangerous for civil rights. Yet the collapse of the federal civil rights architecture and national will to address racial inequality and work on integration is stunning. Here's my latest. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/m...
This is great analysis and I’d love to see it broken down within swing states too
NEW: Explore how changes in turnout and vote choice powered Trump’s victory in the 2024 election: www.pewresearch.org/...
How Changes in Turnout and Vote Choice Powered Trump’s Victory in 2024
In this interactive feature, explore how changes between the 2020 and 2024 elections in how – and whether – people voted helped to return President Trump to office.
www.pewresearch.org
June 27, 2025 at 4:23 PM
This is great analysis and I’d love to see it broken down within swing states too
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"The Trump administration...is now offering relief from some of that illegally imposed hardship in exchange for Harvard’s adoption of policies that are aligned with the government’s ideology. This is not a 'negotiation.' It is extortion. It’s like negotiating the terms of a mugging."
Incredibly important. Harvard is about to fail the Lando test, opening itself, the rest of higher education, and all of civil society up to further illegal and unconstitutional authoritarian exertion. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
June 27, 2025 at 12:46 AM
"The Trump administration...is now offering relief from some of that illegally imposed hardship in exchange for Harvard’s adoption of policies that are aligned with the government’s ideology. This is not a 'negotiation.' It is extortion. It’s like negotiating the terms of a mugging."
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"Your clothing should tell a story about you! Just not who you are or that you are acting in any kind of official capacity." @petridishes.bsky.social on the ICE dress code:
Coco Chanel’s Guide to ICE
Or, how to tell if the person without ID pulling you into a van is actually an ICE agent
bit.ly
June 20, 2025 at 10:19 PM
"Your clothing should tell a story about you! Just not who you are or that you are acting in any kind of official capacity." @petridishes.bsky.social on the ICE dress code:
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Our resource We Must Fight in Solidarity with Trans Youth situates the criminalization of gender-affirming care within a larger web, draws connections across our movements, provides historical context, and talks about the groups that are behind this trans eliminationist, white supremacist agenda:
We Must Fight In Solidarity With Trans Youth — Interrupting Criminalization
This brief is intended to help organizers working to stop the violence of surveillance, policing, and punishment and advance racial, reproductive, gender, LGBTQ, migrant, and disability justice.
www.interruptingcriminalization.com
June 20, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Our resource We Must Fight in Solidarity with Trans Youth situates the criminalization of gender-affirming care within a larger web, draws connections across our movements, provides historical context, and talks about the groups that are behind this trans eliminationist, white supremacist agenda:
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This is a gift to everyone in academia. And a lot of the rest of us. zenodo.org/records/1569...
June 19, 2025 at 4:39 PM
This is a gift to everyone in academia. And a lot of the rest of us. zenodo.org/records/1569...
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Good for her! What a fuckin badass.
A trans woman, forced to compete against men, swims topless in protest
www.out.com/gay-athl...
#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
www.out.com/gay-athl...
#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
A trans woman, forced to compete against men, swims topless in protest
Anne Isabella Coombes stood up to Swim England's gender policies in an innovative way.
www.out.com
June 18, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Good for her! What a fuckin badass.
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“You don’t have the authority to arrest U.S. citizens asking for a judicial warrant,” he added.
Lander is then led into an elevator with his hands behind his back as an aide can be heard asking, “Where are you taking the Comptroller of the city of New York?”
www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...
Lander is then led into an elevator with his hands behind his back as an aide can be heard asking, “Where are you taking the Comptroller of the city of New York?”
www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...
New York City Comptroller Brad Lander detained by ICE, his mayoral campaign said
The incident followed a series of dramatic confrontations between immigration officials and Democrats opposing President Donald Trump's immigration policies.
www.nbcnews.com
June 17, 2025 at 6:06 PM
“You don’t have the authority to arrest U.S. citizens asking for a judicial warrant,” he added.
Lander is then led into an elevator with his hands behind his back as an aide can be heard asking, “Where are you taking the Comptroller of the city of New York?”
www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...
Lander is then led into an elevator with his hands behind his back as an aide can be heard asking, “Where are you taking the Comptroller of the city of New York?”
www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...