Hannah Bowman
@hannahnpbowman.com
Literary agent @ Liza Dawson Associates, prison abolitionist, public theologian
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christiansforabolition.org
Abolition Ecclesiology: A Spatial Theology for a Church Against Prisons (Fortress, forthcoming in 2026)
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christiansforabolition.org
Abolition Ecclesiology: A Spatial Theology for a Church Against Prisons (Fortress, forthcoming in 2026)
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In case you missed it: I’ve got a new (warning: somewhat intense) story on @npr.org about all the ways faith leaders have pushed back against the Trump administration’s mass deportation campaign this year — including clergy directly confronting ICE agents and police. www.npr.org/2025/12/24/n...
How the clergy has rallied against the Trump administration's immigration policies
Religious leaders have rallied against the Trump administration's detention and deportation of immigrants. Clergy are filing lawsuits, accompanying migrants to court hearings and leading protests.
www.npr.org
December 26, 2025 at 2:30 PM
In case you missed it: I’ve got a new (warning: somewhat intense) story on @npr.org about all the ways faith leaders have pushed back against the Trump administration’s mass deportation campaign this year — including clergy directly confronting ICE agents and police. www.npr.org/2025/12/24/n...
Made salmon coulibiac for Christmas dinner! (Merry Christmas!)
December 26, 2025 at 4:08 AM
Made salmon coulibiac for Christmas dinner! (Merry Christmas!)
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Chains shall he break
December 25, 2025 at 3:58 AM
Chains shall he break
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concentration camps.
ICE documents reveal plan to hold 80,000 immigrants in warehouses
The Trump administration wants to build seven large-scale deportation hubs to speed up deportations, internal ICE documents show.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 24, 2025 at 1:55 PM
concentration camps.
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"In a country where white Christianity has become a weapon of authoritarian violence, anti-ICE nativities re-center the reason for the season: Christ’s humble beginnings amid political violence," writes Emma Cieslik.
sojo.net/articles/opi...
sojo.net/articles/opi...
Anti-ICE Nativities Are the Reason for the Season
The churches putting up these nativities are declaring that they refuse to be complicit in the very same violence that threatened Jesus at his birth.
sojo.net
December 23, 2025 at 5:00 PM
"In a country where white Christianity has become a weapon of authoritarian violence, anti-ICE nativities re-center the reason for the season: Christ’s humble beginnings amid political violence," writes Emma Cieslik.
sojo.net/articles/opi...
sojo.net/articles/opi...
Listen to the people reminding us that concentration camps and torture are immoral and wicked, and also that the conditions in our own nation’s prisons are similarly terrible. Incarceration is dehumanization.
December 23, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Listen to the people reminding us that concentration camps and torture are immoral and wicked, and also that the conditions in our own nation’s prisons are similarly terrible. Incarceration is dehumanization.
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People have historically, and rightfully, seen the evil of Guantanamo, Abu Gharib, and now CECOT for what it is, but I wish more people would also see the evil in our domestic prisons too. How we treat our most vulnerable, including prisoners, really sets the tone for our whole society.
I don’t mean to sound extreme, but I don’t think we should have torture camps for people with criminal records either.
December 23, 2025 at 2:09 AM
People have historically, and rightfully, seen the evil of Guantanamo, Abu Gharib, and now CECOT for what it is, but I wish more people would also see the evil in our domestic prisons too. How we treat our most vulnerable, including prisoners, really sets the tone for our whole society.
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Bad news on this front. (Especially since most of the non-violent offenders with whom I served time were there on pretty basic drug offenses.) bsky.app/profile/jool...
When you watch this know that US Federal BOP uses extreme heat, threat of sexual violence, withholds basic medical treatment and medicines, and many other similar horrors, right here on US soil. In lovely Danbury, CT. @humanrightswatch.bsky.social @blumenthal.senate.gov @chrismurphyct.bsky.social
December 23, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Bad news on this front. (Especially since most of the non-violent offenders with whom I served time were there on pretty basic drug offenses.) bsky.app/profile/jool...
It’s the longest night of the year and the last night of Hanukkah (for family-historical reasons we celebrate Hanukkah). I’ve got my Solidarity is the Only Way Home shirt from @theradr.bsky.social and friends coming over for latkes. Let’s make some light.
December 22, 2025 at 1:39 AM
It’s the longest night of the year and the last night of Hanukkah (for family-historical reasons we celebrate Hanukkah). I’ve got my Solidarity is the Only Way Home shirt from @theradr.bsky.social and friends coming over for latkes. Let’s make some light.
I am attributing our existential exhaustion today to the solstice. Tomorrow the light starts coming back.
December 22, 2025 at 12:19 AM
I am attributing our existential exhaustion today to the solstice. Tomorrow the light starts coming back.
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Sending asylum seekers to random countries is so unbelievably cruel.
December 21, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Sending asylum seekers to random countries is so unbelievably cruel.
I am wildly curious if this SFWA LLM-friendly Nebula policy is intended to allow certain specific works in (and if so, which ones do they want to be sure are included?), or if not, what sort of LLM use-cases they are imagining authors are using. Like, I'm actually curious about the reasoning!
December 19, 2025 at 8:40 PM
I am wildly curious if this SFWA LLM-friendly Nebula policy is intended to allow certain specific works in (and if so, which ones do they want to be sure are included?), or if not, what sort of LLM use-cases they are imagining authors are using. Like, I'm actually curious about the reasoning!
Just LET PEOPLE LIVE
The Trump administration is expected to announce several moves Thursday that will have the effect of essentially banning gender-affirming care for transgender young people, even in states where it is still legal.
www.npr.org/sections/sho...
www.npr.org/sections/sho...
RFK Jr. and Dr. Oz announce moves to ban gender-affirming care for young people
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is expected to announce a package of measures that would together ban gender-affirming care for minors. A press conference is set for 11 a.m. Thursday.
www.npr.org
December 18, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Just LET PEOPLE LIVE
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I am just so strongly team “let people live”
December 18, 2025 at 3:51 AM
I am just so strongly team “let people live”
FWIW I am angry!!!
Bluesky tonight is neatly divided between trans people and family members appropriately angry and freaking out and everyone else who has barely noticed.
December 18, 2025 at 2:02 AM
FWIW I am angry!!!
“It is my sincere prayer that all of us—myself included—be given the gift of repentance and a renewed conversion to the Christ who has promised he will be found among those who are oppressed.” Read this. ⚓️
Supporting ICE is like watching a Christmas pageant and rooting for Herod's soldiers. I wrote about a recent faith-based direct action in San Francisco here.
MAGA Is Persecuting Jesus Christ Himself
Incarnational Reflections on Direct Action Against ICE
open.substack.com
December 18, 2025 at 12:23 AM
“It is my sincere prayer that all of us—myself included—be given the gift of repentance and a renewed conversion to the Christ who has promised he will be found among those who are oppressed.” Read this. ⚓️
See, a totally abolitionist response to police killings is to make it impossible for cops who have killed someone, for whatever reason, to work as cops ever again, anywhere. That's not carceral, it's not even PUNISHMENT. We could put our efforts here, rather than (rare, often failed) prosecutions!
Tamir Rice was 12 years old.
Tamir Rice was 12 years old.
Tamir Rice was 12 years old.
Tamir Rice was 12 years old.
Tamir Rice was 12 years old.
Tamir Rice was 12 years old.
Tamir Rice was 12 years old.
Tamir Rice was 12 years old.
Tamir Rice was 12 years old.
Tamir Rice was 12 years old.
Tamir Rice was 12 years old.
Tamir Rice was 12 years old.
Tamir Rice was 12 years old.
Tamir Rice was 12 years old.
Tamir Rice was 12 years old.
Tamir Rice was 12 years old.
Tamir Rice was 12 years old.
Tamir Rice was 12 years old.
Tamir Rice was 12 years old.
Police officer who shot Tamir Rice hired by West Virginia departments, report says
Rice family attorney calls the hiring "imbecilic and heartless," as Loehmann has previously resigned from three other departments after public protests.
www.cleveland.com
December 17, 2025 at 5:41 PM
See, a totally abolitionist response to police killings is to make it impossible for cops who have killed someone, for whatever reason, to work as cops ever again, anywhere. That's not carceral, it's not even PUNISHMENT. We could put our efforts here, rather than (rare, often failed) prosecutions!
Judith is my fave and this is amazing:
Shalom, friends!
The story of Judith and Holofernes is not only a #Hanukkah classic, it’s been the subject of some of the greatest artworks in history…. Plus these. Welcome to 8 Unhinged Depictions of Judith and Holofernes in Art History! Enjoy, & have a safe & happy Hanukkah
youtu.be/hP7Ywv8G9A8
The story of Judith and Holofernes is not only a #Hanukkah classic, it’s been the subject of some of the greatest artworks in history…. Plus these. Welcome to 8 Unhinged Depictions of Judith and Holofernes in Art History! Enjoy, & have a safe & happy Hanukkah
youtu.be/hP7Ywv8G9A8
8 Unhinged Depictions of Judith and Holofernes in Art History
YouTube video by Miriam Anzovin
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December 16, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Judith is my fave and this is amazing:
This book is ESSENTIAL reading:
My latest book—CORRIDORS OF CONTAGION: How the Pandemic Exposed the Cruelties of Incarceration—is 40% off till Jan 2nd
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December 16, 2025 at 5:25 PM
This book is ESSENTIAL reading:
I’m out sick, so I watched A House of Dynamite (it’s great)
December 15, 2025 at 8:34 PM
I’m out sick, so I watched A House of Dynamite (it’s great)
Like I was saying last week! “There’s a simple truth here that I feel the larger publishing industry has forgotten: if you make cheap books, you will bring in more readers.”
The era of the mass market paperback is coming to an end, and that’s not good thing for anyone.
I jotted down some thoughts about the history of the format and why its end isn’t a great sign for the publishing industry: transfer-orbit.ghost.io/mass-market-...
I jotted down some thoughts about the history of the format and why its end isn’t a great sign for the publishing industry: transfer-orbit.ghost.io/mass-market-...
Stories for the masses
The Mass Market paperback format is ending with a whimper
transfer-orbit.ghost.io
December 15, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Like I was saying last week! “There’s a simple truth here that I feel the larger publishing industry has forgotten: if you make cheap books, you will bring in more readers.”
We allow only specific whitelisted videos and channels on YouTube Kids, and it was SUCH a relief when I learned how to do that. The algorithm goes to trash, all the time.
I'm really, truly not trying to be judgmental here. I know how tough it is to keep children away from screens. I fought that awful battle for many years.
We tried to set limits or whatever. It doesn't work. Just ban YouTube. It's a radicalization machine.
We tried to set limits or whatever. It doesn't work. Just ban YouTube. It's a radicalization machine.
December 15, 2025 at 4:36 PM
We allow only specific whitelisted videos and channels on YouTube Kids, and it was SUCH a relief when I learned how to do that. The algorithm goes to trash, all the time.
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Beat them into plowshares.
Guns don’t make us safer.
We can put them down.
We can put them down.
One of my favorite subreddits is all about shit mechanics find in cars brought to the shop. This one is regular.
December 14, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Beat them into plowshares.
Well good thing there has never been anything sacrilegious or politically divisive in Christianity (go look up “Alexamenos worships his god”)
Supporters of the displays say the Bible is on their side, but critics call the scenes sacrilegious and politically divisive, accusing the churches of abusing sacred imagery. n.pr/4rTabaD
Church Nativity scenes add zip ties and gas masks to protest immigration raids
Supporters of the displays say the Bible is on their side, but critics call the scenes sacrilegious and politically divisive, accusing the churches of abusing sacred imagery.
n.pr
December 14, 2025 at 6:15 AM
Well good thing there has never been anything sacrilegious or politically divisive in Christianity (go look up “Alexamenos worships his god”)
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Police and prisons destroy the fabric of families, what makes us human.
Mothers Activating Movements for Abolition and Solidarity argue that the policy replacing physical mail with digital scans strips incarcerated people of dignity and creates new questions around privacy.
Illinois prisons don’t allow physical mail. Mothers are pushing to restore access.
Members of the advocacy group MAMAS argue that handwritten letters matter, especially to people who have been incarcerated for years.
19thnews.org
December 9, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Police and prisons destroy the fabric of families, what makes us human.