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Hannah Wright
@hannahwright.bsky.social
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Researching militarism, coloniality, state violence, abolition, gender, race, class. Lecturer at University of Manchester. She/her. ♿️
https://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/persons/hannah-wright
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tamaranopper.bsky.social
Ruth Wilson Gilmore's definition of the prison-industrial complex (PIC) is so useful.

As Gilmore and Craig Gilmore note, equating industrial with profit can disappear the state, and "the outcome of capitalist activity stands in for the complicated relationships that enable or change that outcome."
What is the prison-industrial complex, and why is it a useful concept for thinking about the American carceral state? Ruth Wilson Gilmore The idea for conceptualizing what we have come to describe as mass incarceration using the term “prison-industrial complex” first materialized in an article that Mike Davis published about twenty years ago in the Nation. What Mike launched into our consciousness was a provocation to think about prison, punishment, and the carceral in as expansive of a way as we had learned to think about the military-industrial complex. While a number of people over the years have written about what that complex consists of, I think I probably have written the most, or at least gone on at the most length, in part because as a PhD student I studied the military-industrial complex to shreds at the seminar table of the economist and socialist Ann Markusen. The prison-industrial complex consists of the uniformed and civilian personnel who work anywhere from the streets to the courts, to the jails, to the prisons, to the postprison-release programs, and so forth. It includes the boosters in the towns or neighborhoods where prisons and jails are built. It includes the intellectuals, including myself, who make their living either designing or condemning the design of systems of punishment. It includes finance capitalists who lend money to states and municipalities to build or improve their lockup systems. It includes the various firms that sell goods and services to states and municipalities, including the federal government, in order to keep people locked up or to keep them under surveillance when they’re not locked up. So that can be anything from food service to ankle monitors and anything in between. All that put together is the prison-industrial complex. Most of the dollars that flow through it originate from public treasuries, and they fall into the hands of people in the forms of wages, salaries, utility bills, and everything else it takes to k…
November 10, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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risjnl.bsky.social
"Underpinning a current of WPS activism and scholarship is a radical conceptualisation of feminist peace rooted in anti-militarism, anti-capitalism, and anti-imperialism."

Check out Hannah Wright & Columba Achilleos-Sarll's article in our latest issue!

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November 10, 2025 at 9:07 AM
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baraa45.bsky.social
I am Baraa of Gaza, we need your help The war has stopped but the suffering continues and the life in tents has not ended and our house has been destroyed. Please help me travel to build my future. Please do not be afraid.🙏🏻😭🍉
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October 23, 2025 at 11:17 AM
hannahwright.bsky.social
Nice to see this piece has an issue number now, just as we pass the 25th anniversary of UNSCR 1325. @columbaachilleos.bsky.social and I also have a short follow up conversations piece coming shortly...
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Towards an abolitionist feminist peace: State violence, anti-militarism, and the Women, Peace and Security agenda | Review of International Studies | Cambridge Core
Towards an abolitionist feminist peace: State violence, anti-militarism, and the Women, Peace and Security agenda - Volume 51 Issue 5
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November 7, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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Please share and donate if you can to support @mwa11j1-mmfert.bsky.social's family of 15 as they face the coming winter:
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November 7, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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hannahwright.bsky.social
Please keep sharing and donating if you can - like many Palestinians, Mohammed's Bluesky account was banned so he can't post here himself. He is on Instagram as moh.ammedalsibakhi.
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October 2, 2025 at 9:45 AM
hannahwright.bsky.social
I just want the 'synonyms' function back in Microsoft Word, not the option to ask ChatGPT to write for me.
November 5, 2025 at 7:03 PM
hannahwright.bsky.social
I'm curious what other researchers are doing when finding relevant literature in languages they don't speak, especially when not part of a funded study with a budget for translation. Are people finding funds for this somewhere, or just not really looking at literature in other languages?
November 5, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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derek.bike
good morning specifically to the FBI agent who introduced Mamdani’s dad to Marx
guy said, “Do you like Marx?” I said, “I haven’t met him.” Guy said, “No, no, he’s dead.” “Wow, what happened?” “No, no, he died long ago.” I thought the guy Marx had just died. So then, “Why are you asking me if he died long ago?” “No, he wrote a lot. He wrote that poor people should not be poor.” I said, “Sounds amazing.” I’m giving you a sense of how naïve I was. After they left, I went to the library to look for Marx. So that was my introduction to Karl Marx. BS: The FBI. MM: The FBI. Then, of course, I took a class on Marx. Couldn’t just get Marx out of the library. But,
November 5, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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baileymcc.bsky.social
This person took this when they called the race
November 5, 2025 at 6:07 AM
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johnrogers.bsky.social
It's not in this article but the government asserts that the sandwich was thrown at "point blank range", which implies subway sandwiches have defined effective weapon ranges of varying lethality, and I would like to see the government's chart of these ranges.
November 3, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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niais.bsky.social
Teen Vogue and their incredible reporters have been the bar for a bunch of years... Their reporting was the frontline of holding back fascism and protecting all of us.

Today is a dark day. (And personally, Lex and the other Teen Vogue reporters are just awesome people.)
leximcmenamin.com Lex McMenamin (they/them) @leximcmenamin.com · 7d
I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.

certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
November 3, 2025 at 8:12 PM
hannahwright.bsky.social
This sucks. Was just talking yesterday about what an amazing thing Teen Vogue is for its political coverage.
leximcmenamin.com Lex McMenamin (they/them) @leximcmenamin.com · 7d
I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.

certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
November 3, 2025 at 9:24 PM
hannahwright.bsky.social
This is such an awesome programme, hoping to one day have a teaching schedule that enables me to attend
November 3, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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mjamurphy.bsky.social
This should be the biggest news story in the world right now
November 1, 2025 at 10:32 PM
hannahwright.bsky.social
"As long as the university system in the UK is so wildly underfunded as it is now, universities will be vulnerable to attacks like this." That’s the crux of it, isn’t it?
November 3, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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irisvanrooij.bsky.social
“We are told that AI is inevitable, that we must adapt or be left behind. But universities are not tech companies. Our role is to foster critical thinking, not to follow industry trends uncritically.”
November 1, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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anandmenon.bsky.social
Jesus Christ. We go mad about one bloke we wrongly released, yet hear next to nothing about this horror? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
More than 50 child asylum seekers still missing after disappearing from Kent care
Council data obtained by the Guardian shows 345 children have gone missing in recent years, many probably taken by traffickers
www.theguardian.com
November 1, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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erictopol.bsky.social
We've just launched the first large, site-less (home, direct to participant) randomized trial for treatment of #LongCovid, testing tirzepatide (a GLP-1 drug) vs placebo. Please help spread the word
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Scripps Research scientists launch new digital clinical trial to test repurposed drug for long COVID symptom relief
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October 31, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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sfdirewolf.bsky.social
The State of Critical Race Disability Studies A White Paper Report from the Disabled Scholars of Color Collective

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Graphic with a white background and text: The State of Critical Race Disability Studies A White Paper Report from the Disabled Scholars of Color Collective
October 16, 2025 at 6:24 AM
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faineg.bsky.social
Florida’s decision to end vaccine mandates is 100% going to make Disney World one of the world’s biggest infectious disease reservoirs, what with the huge numbers of visitors from around the world that mix there - right?
tyleraking.com Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 11d
FL is moving forward w/ plan to end all childhood vaccine mandates. Starting with hepatitis B, chickenpox, and the bacteria causing meningitis and pneumonia. Then next year GOP FL legislature is expected to revisit 1977 law re: whooping cough, measles, polio, rubella, mumps, diphtheria, and tetanus.
October 31, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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florencehrscott.bsky.social
I know it's harder and more dangerous to carve a turnip but the effect is so much more disturbing, and thus in keeping with the season
Carved turnip with eye sockets and a red mouth with teeth
October 30, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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earlymodernjohn.bsky.social
Genuinely delighted to download a PhD thesis from a university repository where the author has neglected to remove the words "BITCH THIS IS YOUR THESIS" from the filename.
October 30, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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mybisa.bsky.social
🚨 Call for papers 🚨

Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial 12th annual workshop - a one-day in-person event focussing on the ethical commitments of academic research, scholarship and teaching 🎉

Send in your papers now 👉 https://ow.ly/nUy250XjIZw

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Call for papers: Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial 12th annual workshop- Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial (CPD) | BISA
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October 29, 2025 at 5:01 PM