Stevie Wilson
@alwaysstevie.bsky.social
Black. queer. abolitionist. he/him/they. writer. organizer. Philly-raised. Currently imprisoned.
Pinned
Guess who's coming home?! After over 15 years inside, I will be released in early February and look forward to being with my family and friends. I accomplished more than I could have dreamed while imprisoned. Imagine what I'll do when I'm free.
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“Trump is sharply and rapidly intensifying the U.S. state’s long and bipartisan history of abduction and caging, deploying these powerful, incredibly well-resourced instruments of repression for overtly fascist ends.” — @mskellymhayes.bsky.social and @mayaschenwar.bsky.social
Faith in checks and balances stems from an even more dangerous faith in law and order.
Kelly Hayes and Maya Schenwar respond to Lisa L. Miller’s “The Dead End of Checks and Balances.”
www.bostonreview.net
January 11, 2026 at 3:00 PM
“Trump is sharply and rapidly intensifying the U.S. state’s long and bipartisan history of abduction and caging, deploying these powerful, incredibly well-resourced instruments of repression for overtly fascist ends.” — @mskellymhayes.bsky.social and @mayaschenwar.bsky.social
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Prison guards are flocking to ICE jobs and frankly this makes sense. Those of us who have been anti-prison organizers for decades have been saying that fascism already existed within prisons/jails. Our best teachers for how to survive fascism are incarcerated people.
January 10, 2026 at 2:33 AM
Prison guards are flocking to ICE jobs and frankly this makes sense. Those of us who have been anti-prison organizers for decades have been saying that fascism already existed within prisons/jails. Our best teachers for how to survive fascism are incarcerated people.
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Gramsci translated by @alfatau.bsky.social
I Hate New Year's Day - Viewpoint Magazine
That's why I hate New Year's. I want every morning to be a new year's for me. Every day I want to reckon with myself, and every day I want to renew myself. No day set aside for rest. I choose my pause...
viewpointmag.com
January 1, 2026 at 10:48 AM
Gramsci translated by @alfatau.bsky.social
I helped found @the-work-and-us.bsky.social in 2021. After a little hiatus, we are officially relaunching the project and are expanding our work to include an Incarcerated Research Fellowship. Because we believe that people inside are experts of their own experiences.
December 23, 2025 at 6:21 PM
I helped found @the-work-and-us.bsky.social in 2021. After a little hiatus, we are officially relaunching the project and are expanding our work to include an Incarcerated Research Fellowship. Because we believe that people inside are experts of their own experiences.
I was honored to be interviewed in the recent edition of The Scholar & Feminist Online. You can read the full interview "Collectivizing Care and Making Kin as Abolitionist Practice" here sfonline.barnard.edu/collectivizi...
December 22, 2025 at 10:51 PM
I was honored to be interviewed in the recent edition of The Scholar & Feminist Online. You can read the full interview "Collectivizing Care and Making Kin as Abolitionist Practice" here sfonline.barnard.edu/collectivizi...
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Incarcerated writer Kwaneta Harris says solitary confinement keeps no one safe. “The answer isn’t throwing them in a concrete box for years; it’s trauma-informed care, therapeutic communities, meditation programs, restorative justice practices.”
“Designed to Break You:” Two Incarcerated Writers on the Heavy Toll of Solitary Confinement
The authors of a new book on solitary answer your questions about their experiences with isolation and the movement to end the torturous practice.
boltsmag.org
December 21, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Incarcerated writer Kwaneta Harris says solitary confinement keeps no one safe. “The answer isn’t throwing them in a concrete box for years; it’s trauma-informed care, therapeutic communities, meditation programs, restorative justice practices.”
As temperatures drop outside, just a reminder that extreme cold is also a problem for people inside. A lot of prisons are old and drafty, and items like winter boots or heavy blankets aren't available. As climate patterns change, this will only get worse. prisonjournalismproject.org/2025/02/25/e...
What Extreme Cold Feels Like in Prison
Prison writers from across the U.S. describe how cold their prisons get in the winter — and what small dignities could make it more bearable.
prisonjournalismproject.org
December 9, 2025 at 9:07 PM
As temperatures drop outside, just a reminder that extreme cold is also a problem for people inside. A lot of prisons are old and drafty, and items like winter boots or heavy blankets aren't available. As climate patterns change, this will only get worse. prisonjournalismproject.org/2025/02/25/e...
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The Department of Justice plans to dismantle protections for trans and intersex people in federal, state, and local prisons, jails, and youth detention facilities, according to a government memo obtained by Prism.
December 5, 2025 at 5:19 PM
The Department of Justice plans to dismantle protections for trans and intersex people in federal, state, and local prisons, jails, and youth detention facilities, according to a government memo obtained by Prism.
Guess who's coming home?! After over 15 years inside, I will be released in early February and look forward to being with my family and friends. I accomplished more than I could have dreamed while imprisoned. Imagine what I'll do when I'm free.
December 2, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Guess who's coming home?! After over 15 years inside, I will be released in early February and look forward to being with my family and friends. I accomplished more than I could have dreamed while imprisoned. Imagine what I'll do when I'm free.
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For #BannedBooksWeek, we’re highlighting the unjust censorship of political books which impacts countless incarcerated readers each year.
For every book purchased from this reading list, we will be sending a book to someone who is incarcerated.
For every book purchased from this reading list, we will be sending a book to someone who is incarcerated.
Books Are For Everyone: A Banned Books Week Reading List
Banned Books Week—October 5th to 11th—is an annual celebration of the freedom to read, and the aspiration that books should be accessible to all. In recognition of Banned Books Week 2025, Haymarket is...
www.haymarketbooks.org
October 6, 2025 at 3:51 PM
For #BannedBooksWeek, we’re highlighting the unjust censorship of political books which impacts countless incarcerated readers each year.
For every book purchased from this reading list, we will be sending a book to someone who is incarcerated.
For every book purchased from this reading list, we will be sending a book to someone who is incarcerated.
Rest in power Assata.
It is our duty to fight for our freedom. It is our duty to win. We must love each other and support each other. We have nothing to lose but our chains.
September 27, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Rest in power Assata.
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A friend reposted this by @zellieimani.bsky.social from 2020 and it remains apt:
“For the oppressed, peace is the absence of oppression. But for the oppressor, peace is the absence of resistance."
“For the oppressed, peace is the absence of oppression. But for the oppressor, peace is the absence of resistance."
September 16, 2025 at 2:04 PM
A friend reposted this by @zellieimani.bsky.social from 2020 and it remains apt:
“For the oppressed, peace is the absence of oppression. But for the oppressor, peace is the absence of resistance."
“For the oppressed, peace is the absence of oppression. But for the oppressor, peace is the absence of resistance."
I was grateful to be a part of Critical Resistance’s Cross-wall & Power Building Retreat during Black August. Check out recordings from the retreat, including my remarks on censorship, repression, and accountability to inside organizers criticalresistance.org/prisoner-spe...
Critical Resistance
criticalresistance.org
September 2, 2025 at 8:25 PM
I was grateful to be a part of Critical Resistance’s Cross-wall & Power Building Retreat during Black August. Check out recordings from the retreat, including my remarks on censorship, repression, and accountability to inside organizers criticalresistance.org/prisoner-spe...
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Tuesday at noon ET (US), 9 AM PT we'll be live again with
@dylanrodriguez.bsky.social
to talk about T. Hoxha's hunger strike, Casey Goonan's solidarity hunger strike, defending direct action, Pro-Palestine political prisoners in the imperial core and more!
www.youtube.com/live/GYXM0DU...
@dylanrodriguez.bsky.social
to talk about T. Hoxha's hunger strike, Casey Goonan's solidarity hunger strike, defending direct action, Pro-Palestine political prisoners in the imperial core and more!
www.youtube.com/live/GYXM0DU...
September 2, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Tuesday at noon ET (US), 9 AM PT we'll be live again with
@dylanrodriguez.bsky.social
to talk about T. Hoxha's hunger strike, Casey Goonan's solidarity hunger strike, defending direct action, Pro-Palestine political prisoners in the imperial core and more!
www.youtube.com/live/GYXM0DU...
@dylanrodriguez.bsky.social
to talk about T. Hoxha's hunger strike, Casey Goonan's solidarity hunger strike, defending direct action, Pro-Palestine political prisoners in the imperial core and more!
www.youtube.com/live/GYXM0DU...
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T. Hoxha enters day 18 of her hunger strike.
Calla Walsh has written about it, how fellow captive Casey Goonan joined in solitary, and how we must honor the slogan, "Our prisoners are our compass."
Read: calla.substack.com/p/casey-hoxha
Demand Hoxha's hospitalization: tinyurl.com/FREETHOXHA
Calla Walsh has written about it, how fellow captive Casey Goonan joined in solitary, and how we must honor the slogan, "Our prisoners are our compass."
Read: calla.substack.com/p/casey-hoxha
Demand Hoxha's hospitalization: tinyurl.com/FREETHOXHA
August 29, 2025 at 6:33 AM
T. Hoxha enters day 18 of her hunger strike.
Calla Walsh has written about it, how fellow captive Casey Goonan joined in solitary, and how we must honor the slogan, "Our prisoners are our compass."
Read: calla.substack.com/p/casey-hoxha
Demand Hoxha's hospitalization: tinyurl.com/FREETHOXHA
Calla Walsh has written about it, how fellow captive Casey Goonan joined in solitary, and how we must honor the slogan, "Our prisoners are our compass."
Read: calla.substack.com/p/casey-hoxha
Demand Hoxha's hospitalization: tinyurl.com/FREETHOXHA
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The BPP held an entire anti-fascist conference in Oakland in the late 60s. People are over half a century behind on the realities of what they were saying about fascism in the USA, but it also speaks to how severely their politics were suppressed.
The Black Panthers were accurately describing the US as fascist in the 60s. That's how far behind you are if a dictator moving troops in to occupy cities & arresting his opposition & disappearing people is just clicking as fascism for you.
August 22, 2025 at 11:31 PM
The BPP held an entire anti-fascist conference in Oakland in the late 60s. People are over half a century behind on the realities of what they were saying about fascism in the USA, but it also speaks to how severely their politics were suppressed.
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Chicago!
Haymarket Presents Ruth Wilson Gilmore in conversation with Barbara Ransby
Thursday, September 11th at 6:30 pm
Live from @haymarkethouse.bsky.social with @pilsencommbooks.bsky.social
RSVP to attend (in-person and virtual)
www.tickettailor.com/events/hayma...
Haymarket Presents Ruth Wilson Gilmore in conversation with Barbara Ransby
Thursday, September 11th at 6:30 pm
Live from @haymarkethouse.bsky.social with @pilsencommbooks.bsky.social
RSVP to attend (in-person and virtual)
www.tickettailor.com/events/hayma...
August 22, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Chicago!
Haymarket Presents Ruth Wilson Gilmore in conversation with Barbara Ransby
Thursday, September 11th at 6:30 pm
Live from @haymarkethouse.bsky.social with @pilsencommbooks.bsky.social
RSVP to attend (in-person and virtual)
www.tickettailor.com/events/hayma...
Haymarket Presents Ruth Wilson Gilmore in conversation with Barbara Ransby
Thursday, September 11th at 6:30 pm
Live from @haymarkethouse.bsky.social with @pilsencommbooks.bsky.social
RSVP to attend (in-person and virtual)
www.tickettailor.com/events/hayma...
I am really proud of the work these young men have been doing through our gun violence roundtable. Thanks to Amsterdam News for writing about this project and lifting up the perspectives of imprisoned people on the drivers of gun violence amsterdamnews.com/news/2025/08...
Why do you carry a gun? How a simple question is transforming lives in a Pennsylvania prison
In prison, Stevie Wilson leads talks with inmates on why they carry guns — and how to find real solutions to Philadelphia’s gun violence.
amsterdamnews.com
August 14, 2025 at 5:31 PM
I am really proud of the work these young men have been doing through our gun violence roundtable. Thanks to Amsterdam News for writing about this project and lifting up the perspectives of imprisoned people on the drivers of gun violence amsterdamnews.com/news/2025/08...
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Join us for the launch of 3 zines on Aug 29 in Brooklyn - 6 to 8 pm. You can check out the *Another World* space which exists to support political education, mutual aid and organizing.
August 7, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Join us for the launch of 3 zines on Aug 29 in Brooklyn - 6 to 8 pm. You can check out the *Another World* space which exists to support political education, mutual aid and organizing.
For people who may not understand the importance of political education and relationship building behind the wall, here is an anecdote about the self activity of imprisoned people during Black August.
August 7, 2025 at 9:54 PM
For people who may not understand the importance of political education and relationship building behind the wall, here is an anecdote about the self activity of imprisoned people during Black August.
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"The actual process of organizing" involves getting people to "realize that prisons [are] an obstacle, rather than part of a solution, to the things they [are] trying to accomplish." @craiggilmore.bsky.social on real-life strategy in abolitionist organizing inquest.org/organizi...
Organizing the Already Mobilized - Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Craig Gilmore, Judah Schept, & Lydia Pelot-Hobbs - Inquest
People involved with labor justice, grassroots community-building, and independent watchdogs make obvious allies for abolitionists—but how do we win them to our cause?
inquest.org
August 6, 2025 at 12:00 PM
"The actual process of organizing" involves getting people to "realize that prisons [are] an obstacle, rather than part of a solution, to the things they [are] trying to accomplish." @craiggilmore.bsky.social on real-life strategy in abolitionist organizing inquest.org/organizi...
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This book is a care package for organizers and activists. I wrote the first and last letters in the book and edited letters from beloved friends and co-strugglers like @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social, @mayaschenwar.bsky.social, @shaneburley.bsky.social, @prisonculture.bsky.social, and many more.
Read This When Things Fall Apart by Kelly Hayes | Pilsen Community Books
Letters to Activists in Crisis
www.pilsencommunitybooks.com
August 4, 2025 at 8:10 PM
This book is a care package for organizers and activists. I wrote the first and last letters in the book and edited letters from beloved friends and co-strugglers like @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social, @mayaschenwar.bsky.social, @shaneburley.bsky.social, @prisonculture.bsky.social, and many more.
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Our co-founder @prisonculture.bsky.social is also running a summer book drive to help support Bluestockings in keeping their doors open. 📚 Drop off or mail new or gently used social justice focused books! More details in the flyer.
July 18, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Our co-founder @prisonculture.bsky.social is also running a summer book drive to help support Bluestockings in keeping their doors open. 📚 Drop off or mail new or gently used social justice focused books! More details in the flyer.
We are doing groups inside on toxic masculinity and could use suggestions for readings, exercises, or curriculum that can help ground our discussions. Thank you in advance!
July 24, 2025 at 12:32 AM
We are doing groups inside on toxic masculinity and could use suggestions for readings, exercises, or curriculum that can help ground our discussions. Thank you in advance!