Stevie Wilson
@alwaysstevie.bsky.social
Black. queer. abolitionist. he/him/they. writer. organizer. Philly-raised. Currently imprisoned.
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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!
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I'm excited to share that I received some grant funding to bring back the Stevie Wilson DIY Arts Youth Residency in 2026 and 2027. You can learn more about the project here: bit.ly/diyresidencyreport - I had hoped to offer it again and now I have the opportunity to do so.
Stevie Wilson DIY Youth Arts Residency Report.pdf
drive.google.com
July 15, 2025 at 10:54 PM
I'm excited to share that I received some grant funding to bring back the Stevie Wilson DIY Arts Youth Residency in 2026 and 2027. You can learn more about the project here: bit.ly/diyresidencyreport - I had hoped to offer it again and now I have the opportunity to do so.
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Once again, this is a massive public jobs program for fascists.
This bill was never just about tax cuts and gutting social services. It's about investing our collective resources in violence and using state power to spread fear and destroy solidarity. We need to resist this with all we've got.
This bill was never just about tax cuts and gutting social services. It's about investing our collective resources in violence and using state power to spread fear and destroy solidarity. We need to resist this with all we've got.
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
July 3, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Once again, this is a massive public jobs program for fascists.
This bill was never just about tax cuts and gutting social services. It's about investing our collective resources in violence and using state power to spread fear and destroy solidarity. We need to resist this with all we've got.
This bill was never just about tax cuts and gutting social services. It's about investing our collective resources in violence and using state power to spread fear and destroy solidarity. We need to resist this with all we've got.
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If the GOP reconciliation bill passes, ICE gets through FY2029:
- $45 billion for detention, on top of the current annual budget of $3.4 billion
- $14.4 billion for transportation and removal, on top of the current annual budget of $750 million
- $8 billion for hiring/retention
- Billions more.
- $45 billion for detention, on top of the current annual budget of $3.4 billion
- $14.4 billion for transportation and removal, on top of the current annual budget of $750 million
- $8 billion for hiring/retention
- Billions more.
June 28, 2025 at 10:07 PM
If the GOP reconciliation bill passes, ICE gets through FY2029:
- $45 billion for detention, on top of the current annual budget of $3.4 billion
- $14.4 billion for transportation and removal, on top of the current annual budget of $750 million
- $8 billion for hiring/retention
- Billions more.
- $45 billion for detention, on top of the current annual budget of $3.4 billion
- $14.4 billion for transportation and removal, on top of the current annual budget of $750 million
- $8 billion for hiring/retention
- Billions more.
There's a lot of posts today because of #Juneteenth reducing the comparisons between enslavement and incarceration to the issue of forced prison labor. While coerced labor is a through line, it is certainly not the only or most significant one. From an article I coauthored in @inquest.bsky.social:
June 19, 2025 at 10:00 PM
There's a lot of posts today because of #Juneteenth reducing the comparisons between enslavement and incarceration to the issue of forced prison labor. While coerced labor is a through line, it is certainly not the only or most significant one. From an article I coauthored in @inquest.bsky.social:
We are continuing to raise funds to support political education and mutual aid in PA prisons. Why is it important?
June 13, 2025 at 5:38 PM
We are continuing to raise funds to support political education and mutual aid in PA prisons. Why is it important?
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We're living at a moment when ICE is threatening not only to arrest and deport immigrants but arrest and prosecute everyday people and leaders for educating others about their constitutional rights.
Helping to defend our immigrant communities is one clear action that we can all take right now. ⤵️
Helping to defend our immigrant communities is one clear action that we can all take right now. ⤵️
How to Defend Immigrants Against the Most Common ICE Tactics
These “know your rights” videos have crucial, easy-to-understand information.
www.teenvogue.com
June 11, 2025 at 7:03 PM
We're living at a moment when ICE is threatening not only to arrest and deport immigrants but arrest and prosecute everyday people and leaders for educating others about their constitutional rights.
Helping to defend our immigrant communities is one clear action that we can all take right now. ⤵️
Helping to defend our immigrant communities is one clear action that we can all take right now. ⤵️
This conversation hosted by @haymarketbooks.org has important insights for how we got to where we are re this current regime and how we need to organize against it. And yes, that includes solidarity with those targeted by the various systems of state violence. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzuy...
Criminalization: the Core of Authoritarianism, Fascism, and Resistance
YouTube video by Haymarket Books
www.youtube.com
June 11, 2025 at 7:24 PM
This conversation hosted by @haymarketbooks.org has important insights for how we got to where we are re this current regime and how we need to organize against it. And yes, that includes solidarity with those targeted by the various systems of state violence. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzuy...
It surprises me when people on the outside are shocked by police brutality. They are always performing some version of state violence - through acts of violence or the threat of violence.
June 9, 2025 at 11:58 PM
It surprises me when people on the outside are shocked by police brutality. They are always performing some version of state violence - through acts of violence or the threat of violence.
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The thorough new @prisonpolicy.org report on prison transfers cites Inquest's powerful article from @alwaysstevie.bsky.social about his personal experiences with transfers being used as retribution. Read here: inquest.org/unsettled-pe...
June 6, 2025 at 1:55 PM
The thorough new @prisonpolicy.org report on prison transfers cites Inquest's powerful article from @alwaysstevie.bsky.social about his personal experiences with transfers being used as retribution. Read here: inquest.org/unsettled-pe...
The newest edition of The Abolitionist from Critical Resistance is dropping soon. They previewed my 9971 column about the retaliation I've experienced as an imprisoned organizer - including my recent parole denial. Check it out and become a subscriber!
criticalresistance.org/abolitionist...
criticalresistance.org/abolitionist...
May 29, 2025 at 9:45 PM
The newest edition of The Abolitionist from Critical Resistance is dropping soon. They previewed my 9971 column about the retaliation I've experienced as an imprisoned organizer - including my recent parole denial. Check it out and become a subscriber!
criticalresistance.org/abolitionist...
criticalresistance.org/abolitionist...