Dr. Brittany Friedman
@curlyprofessor.bsky.social
🏹 Los Angeles |🌱Herbalist + Mystic | sociologist + professor | 📖 Author of CARCERAL APARTHEID | 🪬| www.brittanyfriedman.com
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Airing tomorrow on @cspan Lectures in History 📺 at 8am, 11am, 8pm, & 11pm EST, I deliver a corrective lecture disrupting state narratives about the inner-workings of prisons—drawing from my research in my new book CARCERAL APARTHEID: How Lies & White Supremacists Run Our Prisons.
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Good Sunday 🍂
Photo by Artem Saranin. @pexels #Photography
Photo by Artem Saranin. @pexels #Photography
September 28, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Good Sunday 🍂
Photo by Artem Saranin. @pexels #Photography
Photo by Artem Saranin. @pexels #Photography
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it’s Sunday on bluesky so I am urging everyone to take care of themselves. Take a walk, have a second cup of coffee or tea, read a book, spend some time looking at small poems
September 28, 2025 at 12:39 PM
it’s Sunday on bluesky so I am urging everyone to take care of themselves. Take a walk, have a second cup of coffee or tea, read a book, spend some time looking at small poems
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USC Levan Book Chat: Join Professor Brittany Friedman @curlyprofessor.bsky.social for a virtual discussion of her new book, Carceral Apartheid: How Lies and White Supremacists Run Our Prisons
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Levan Book Chat—Brittany Friedman, Carceral Apartheid
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September 22, 2025 at 10:05 PM
USC Levan Book Chat: Join Professor Brittany Friedman @curlyprofessor.bsky.social for a virtual discussion of her new book, Carceral Apartheid: How Lies and White Supremacists Run Our Prisons
@uncpress.bsky.social📖
Register for the 9/29 event: calendar.usc.edu/event/levan-...
@uncpress.bsky.social📖
Register for the 9/29 event: calendar.usc.edu/event/levan-...
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Congratulations to 2025-2026 ASA POP Fellow Brittany Friedman! @curlyprofessor.bsky.social @uscsociology.bsky.social @usc.edu bit.ly/POPfellows%E...
August 6, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Congratulations to 2025-2026 ASA POP Fellow Brittany Friedman! @curlyprofessor.bsky.social @uscsociology.bsky.social @usc.edu bit.ly/POPfellows%E...
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@curlyprofessor.bsky.social on the next episode of A Moment with Erik Fleming! #blacksky #politics #podcast
July 26, 2025 at 1:17 PM
@curlyprofessor.bsky.social on the next episode of A Moment with Erik Fleming! #blacksky #politics #podcast
“WE WERE NEVER MEANT TO OBEY” - New writing from me @polrightsrev.bsky.social
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July 22, 2025 at 5:28 PM
“WE WERE NEVER MEANT TO OBEY” - New writing from me @polrightsrev.bsky.social
politicsrights.com/obey-aboliti...
politicsrights.com/obey-aboliti...
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“They don’t want anyone to see how they treat people. They want to be doing this”—their deportations—”with no witnesses.”
ICE agents are harassing the courthouse volunteers who assist besieged immigrants
"They want to be doing this with no witnesses."
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July 17, 2025 at 9:47 PM
“They don’t want anyone to see how they treat people. They want to be doing this”—their deportations—”with no witnesses.”
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"Prison is not a place that solves violence. Prison is a place that replicates that violence and extends it out." —Gina Dent ('Abolition. Feminism. Now.') helps us imagine an abolitionist future. A collab with @ruwithsonali.bsky.social and @sevenstories.bsky.social inquest.org/building...
Building Toward Abolition - Gina Dent & Sonali Kolhatkar - Inquest
Abolition wouldn’t guarantee a society free from harm—but it could create a society in which the ways we address harm actually help people rebuild their lives.
inquest.org
July 17, 2025 at 2:10 PM
"Prison is not a place that solves violence. Prison is a place that replicates that violence and extends it out." —Gina Dent ('Abolition. Feminism. Now.') helps us imagine an abolitionist future. A collab with @ruwithsonali.bsky.social and @sevenstories.bsky.social inquest.org/building...
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"All these white people did not know each other personally, but they all knew what team they were on, and they all knew they were white, together, and that we were not." @curlyprofessor.bsky.social on how racist solidarity works as a form of policing. inquest.org/united-i...
United in Hate - Brittany Friedman - Inquest
White civilians often spontaneously cooperate in acts of racial hatred. It’s a web of racist solidarity that Black people know all too well.
inquest.org
July 15, 2025 at 2:09 PM
"All these white people did not know each other personally, but they all knew what team they were on, and they all knew they were white, together, and that we were not." @curlyprofessor.bsky.social on how racist solidarity works as a form of policing. inquest.org/united-i...
Appreciate @inquest.bsky.social publishing this excerpt from my book Carceral Apartheid: How Lies and White Supremacists Run Our Prisons. @uncpress.bsky.social
"We continually witness the power of white solidarity across class, law enforcement, and personal boundaries—even if the actors are complete strangers—in support of the collective decimation of Black people." @curlyprofessor.bsky.social w/ @uncpress.bsky.social inquest.org/united-i...
United in Hate - Brittany Friedman - Inquest
White civilians often spontaneously cooperate in acts of racial hatred. It’s a web of racist solidarity that Black people know all too well.
inquest.org
July 16, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Appreciate @inquest.bsky.social publishing this excerpt from my book Carceral Apartheid: How Lies and White Supremacists Run Our Prisons. @uncpress.bsky.social
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“Everything from social media posts to metadata about phone calls to the purchase information collected by data brokers to location data showing every step taken is available to law enforcement… without a warrant.”
ALERT: The High-Tech Tools Police Use to Surveil Protesters
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ALERT: The High-Tech Tools Police Use to Surveil Protesters
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June 16, 2025 at 10:54 PM
“Everything from social media posts to metadata about phone calls to the purchase information collected by data brokers to location data showing every step taken is available to law enforcement… without a warrant.”
ALERT: The High-Tech Tools Police Use to Surveil Protesters
@themarshallproject.org
ALERT: The High-Tech Tools Police Use to Surveil Protesters
@themarshallproject.org
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@curlyprofessor.bsky.social joins me to take us inside her research process & unpack key themes of her new book Carceral Apartheid, from @uncpress.bsky.social.
🎧 Apple link below (w/ transcripts).
#EduSky #AcademicSky #BookSky
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🎧 Apple link below (w/ transcripts).
#EduSky #AcademicSky #BookSky
@newbooksnetwork.bsky.social
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June 6, 2025 at 2:39 PM
@curlyprofessor.bsky.social joins me to take us inside her research process & unpack key themes of her new book Carceral Apartheid, from @uncpress.bsky.social.
🎧 Apple link below (w/ transcripts).
#EduSky #AcademicSky #BookSky
@newbooksnetwork.bsky.social
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
🎧 Apple link below (w/ transcripts).
#EduSky #AcademicSky #BookSky
@newbooksnetwork.bsky.social
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
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For this long & commemorative holiday weekend, my super-sized 226th #ScholarSunday thread is full of thoughtful public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the last week. Add more below, share widely, & enjoy, all! 🗃️
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#ScholarSunday Thread 226
Published on May 25, 2025
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May 25, 2025 at 12:02 PM
For this long & commemorative holiday weekend, my super-sized 226th #ScholarSunday thread is full of thoughtful public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the last week. Add more below, share widely, & enjoy, all! 🗃️
americanstudier.substack.com/p/scholarsun...
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@curlyprofessor.bsky.social’s CARCERAL APARTHEID delves into how prisons suppress Black political movements, revealing the broader themes of deception, empire, corruption, and white supremacy in American mass incarceration. #JPPseries
Carceral Apartheid | Brittany Friedman | University of North Carolina Press
It is impossible to deny the impact of lies and white supremacy on the institutional conditions in US prisons. There is a particular power dynamic of racist ...
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May 20, 2025 at 11:29 AM
@curlyprofessor.bsky.social’s CARCERAL APARTHEID delves into how prisons suppress Black political movements, revealing the broader themes of deception, empire, corruption, and white supremacy in American mass incarceration. #JPPseries
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Prof. Brittany Friedman argues that carceral obedience is not natural but imposed. Her work traces how state violence shapes identity and suppresses authenticity. Abolition begins by rejecting obedience and reclaiming collective freedom. @curlyprofessor.bsky.social
We Were Never Meant to Obey: Weaving Abolitionist Constellations
Abolition is not obedience undone, but freedom reclaimed. This essay weaves abolitionist constellations as maps toward justice and inner truth.
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May 19, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Prof. Brittany Friedman argues that carceral obedience is not natural but imposed. Her work traces how state violence shapes identity and suppresses authenticity. Abolition begins by rejecting obedience and reclaiming collective freedom. @curlyprofessor.bsky.social
May 12, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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Rep. Robert Menendez (D-NJ) lays out what really happened at the ICE detention center in Newark NJ.
Menendez's statement is corroborated by video evidence.
Menendez's statement is corroborated by video evidence.
May 9, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Rep. Robert Menendez (D-NJ) lays out what really happened at the ICE detention center in Newark NJ.
Menendez's statement is corroborated by video evidence.
Menendez's statement is corroborated by video evidence.
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I had the accidental but delightful pleasure of meeting Dr. Friedman last night while we were both waiting for a train home. What a lovely person, and her book sounds fascinating!
📢 TONIGHT! NYC
Event has been moved to the Main Location of Word Up Community Books!
See ⬇️
Event has been moved to the Main Location of Word Up Community Books!
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May 8, 2025 at 4:28 PM
I had the accidental but delightful pleasure of meeting Dr. Friedman last night while we were both waiting for a train home. What a lovely person, and her book sounds fascinating!
📢 TONIGHT! NYC
Event has been moved to the Main Location of Word Up Community Books!
See ⬇️
Event has been moved to the Main Location of Word Up Community Books!
See ⬇️
May 7, 2025 at 5:54 PM
📢 TONIGHT! NYC
Event has been moved to the Main Location of Word Up Community Books!
See ⬇️
Event has been moved to the Main Location of Word Up Community Books!
See ⬇️
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"My book uplifts the voices of Black political prisoners who saw clearly what the state was doing—and dared to resist."
@robgreeneii.bsky.social interviews @curlyprofessor.bsky.social, author of CARCERAL APARTHEID, for AAIHS Black Perspectives blog.
Read it now 👇
www.aaihs.org/carceral-apa...
@robgreeneii.bsky.social interviews @curlyprofessor.bsky.social, author of CARCERAL APARTHEID, for AAIHS Black Perspectives blog.
Read it now 👇
www.aaihs.org/carceral-apa...
Carceral Apartheid: An Interview with Brittany Friedman - AAIHS
In today’s post, Dr. Robert Greene II, the President of AAIHS and Assistant Professor of History at Claflin University, interviews award-winning sociologist Dr. Brittany Friedman about her first book,...
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May 6, 2025 at 7:27 PM
"My book uplifts the voices of Black political prisoners who saw clearly what the state was doing—and dared to resist."
@robgreeneii.bsky.social interviews @curlyprofessor.bsky.social, author of CARCERAL APARTHEID, for AAIHS Black Perspectives blog.
Read it now 👇
www.aaihs.org/carceral-apa...
@robgreeneii.bsky.social interviews @curlyprofessor.bsky.social, author of CARCERAL APARTHEID, for AAIHS Black Perspectives blog.
Read it now 👇
www.aaihs.org/carceral-apa...
NYC see you tomorrow w/ Darren Mack of Freedom Agenda! I have so much respect for Darren’s work to close Rikers and am honored to be in conversation. 🎙️
📍Word Up Community Books
📍Word Up Community Books
May 6, 2025 at 1:45 PM
NYC see you tomorrow w/ Darren Mack of Freedom Agenda! I have so much respect for Darren’s work to close Rikers and am honored to be in conversation. 🎙️
📍Word Up Community Books
📍Word Up Community Books
Reposted by Dr. Brittany Friedman
This is Linda Martin. A few years ago, the FBI seized her life savings: $40,200.
The kicker: She was never charged with a crime—and the government couldn’t tell her why it took her money.
Martin is far from the first. But she is trying to make sure she is the last. A thread.
The kicker: She was never charged with a crime—and the government couldn’t tell her why it took her money.
Martin is far from the first. But she is trying to make sure she is the last. A thread.
April 30, 2025 at 10:15 PM
This is Linda Martin. A few years ago, the FBI seized her life savings: $40,200.
The kicker: She was never charged with a crime—and the government couldn’t tell her why it took her money.
Martin is far from the first. But she is trying to make sure she is the last. A thread.
The kicker: She was never charged with a crime—and the government couldn’t tell her why it took her money.
Martin is far from the first. But she is trying to make sure she is the last. A thread.
Los Angeles— see you tomorrow @latimes.com Festival of Books 🎙️📚 !!
April 27, 2025 at 5:12 AM
Los Angeles— see you tomorrow @latimes.com Festival of Books 🎙️📚 !!
This was such an amazing event!
April 27, 2025 at 5:10 AM
This was such an amazing event!