Laura McTighe
@lauramctighe.bsky.social
Abolitionist. Ethnographer. Organizer.
Co-Author with Women With A Vision of
FIRE DREAMS: MAKING BLACK FEMINIST LIBERATION IN THE SOUTH
www.lauramctighe.com | www.borninflames.com
Co-Author with Women With A Vision of
FIRE DREAMS: MAKING BLACK FEMINIST LIBERATION IN THE SOUTH
www.lauramctighe.com | www.borninflames.com
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A few weeks ago I zoomed with a group of high school students and their adult mentor to discuss taking social action. I am thrilled to report that this group of 10 students raised $10,000 in two weeks to support their local food pantry. They sent me a photo and it has them all jumping and I tear up.
November 8, 2025 at 10:42 PM
A few weeks ago I zoomed with a group of high school students and their adult mentor to discuss taking social action. I am thrilled to report that this group of 10 students raised $10,000 in two weeks to support their local food pantry. They sent me a photo and it has them all jumping and I tear up.
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Spoke with cnn while sitting on the floor of my hotel room hallway bc my family were asleep in the other room.
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October 9, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Spoke with cnn while sitting on the floor of my hotel room hallway bc my family were asleep in the other room.
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I don't think most people understand what we're facing. Not really.
October 8, 2025 at 2:04 PM
I don't think most people understand what we're facing. Not really.
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“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.
We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’
We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’
October 8, 2025 at 11:57 PM
“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.
We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’
We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’
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I’ve received multiple death threats + doxing (including my home address) directly following harassment from Turning Point USA, Jack Posobiec, Andy NGO, + Fox News which called me an antifa ‘financier.’
I have been forced to move my classes online.
If journalists want to talk, DM me or reply here.
I have been forced to move my classes online.
If journalists want to talk, DM me or reply here.
October 4, 2025 at 11:29 PM
I’ve received multiple death threats + doxing (including my home address) directly following harassment from Turning Point USA, Jack Posobiec, Andy NGO, + Fox News which called me an antifa ‘financier.’
I have been forced to move my classes online.
If journalists want to talk, DM me or reply here.
I have been forced to move my classes online.
If journalists want to talk, DM me or reply here.
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I spoke with historian @mark-bray.bsky.social about what’s behind Trump's executive order declaring antifa a “domestic terrorist organization” and his memorandum ordering federal probes into “organized political violence.”
www.thecut.com/article/trum...
www.thecut.com/article/trum...
Trump Doesn’t Care if You’re Actually “Antifa”
Have you protested his policies? His administration’s elastic definition of left-wing violence could eventually ensnare you.
www.thecut.com
September 26, 2025 at 8:16 PM
I spoke with historian @mark-bray.bsky.social about what’s behind Trump's executive order declaring antifa a “domestic terrorist organization” and his memorandum ordering federal probes into “organized political violence.”
www.thecut.com/article/trum...
www.thecut.com/article/trum...
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People are not brave as individuals.
September 18, 2025 at 2:07 PM
People are not brave as individuals.
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If Leftists are so out of step with the rest of the country, then doesn't this presume that Leftists are ALWAYS engaging with people who disagree with us???
September 18, 2025 at 4:18 PM
If Leftists are so out of step with the rest of the country, then doesn't this presume that Leftists are ALWAYS engaging with people who disagree with us???
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Congratulations to Laura McTighe and Women with a Dream, Aisha M. Beliso-De Jesús, Naisargi N. Davé, and Gabrielle Hecht, whose books were awarded SHA's 2025 Edie and Victor Turner Prizes in Ethnographic Writing! buff.ly/DDfqFsq
September 3, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Congratulations to Laura McTighe and Women with a Dream, Aisha M. Beliso-De Jesús, Naisargi N. Davé, and Gabrielle Hecht, whose books were awarded SHA's 2025 Edie and Victor Turner Prizes in Ethnographic Writing! buff.ly/DDfqFsq
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Reminder to those who wanted to help pack the courtroom next week 👇🏼
🧵 In January there is a sentencing hearing for Cory Young, a neo-Nazi skinhead who plead guilty for his role in the murder of Jake Kelly, a gay man from Phoenix.
If it’s anything like the last hearing, then the room will be packed with fellow neo-Nazis and so far, Jake’s mother has stood alone.
If it’s anything like the last hearing, then the room will be packed with fellow neo-Nazis and so far, Jake’s mother has stood alone.
🧵 Today is Shannon Young’s sentencing hearing.
Back in October she plead guilty to her role in the murder of Jake Kelly, a gay man from Phoenix. With only a hindering charge, she’s only facing the possibility of one year in prison, but the deal also allows her to get up to five years probation.
Back in October she plead guilty to her role in the murder of Jake Kelly, a gay man from Phoenix. With only a hindering charge, she’s only facing the possibility of one year in prison, but the deal also allows her to get up to five years probation.
January 1, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Reminder to those who wanted to help pack the courtroom next week 👇🏼
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Several liberal foundations are quietly pulling funding for nonprofits that expressed solidarity with or concern for Gaza jewishcurrents.org/defunding-di...
Defunding Dissent
Philanthropists have quietly withdrawn funding from grassroots groups that spoke out for Gaza, imperiling a broad range of social justice movements.
jewishcurrents.org
December 19, 2024 at 10:06 PM
Several liberal foundations are quietly pulling funding for nonprofits that expressed solidarity with or concern for Gaza jewishcurrents.org/defunding-di...
We are so grateful to close out 2024 with this beautful review by Daven McQueen for the @inquest.bsky.social Year in Books, alongside so many dear comrades. Please consider gifting a copy of FIRE DREAMS to anyone you know who needs fuel for how we continue the work in these times. Forward Ever.
December 19, 2024 at 10:06 PM
We are so grateful to close out 2024 with this beautful review by Daven McQueen for the @inquest.bsky.social Year in Books, alongside so many dear comrades. Please consider gifting a copy of FIRE DREAMS to anyone you know who needs fuel for how we continue the work in these times. Forward Ever.
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My book "White Property, Black Trespass" is included in the year-end staff picks from @inquest.bsky.social alongside important work by @lauramctighe.bsky.social @jesspish.bsky.social @michellesphelps.bsky.social @mfkantor.bsky.social Rachel Herzing, James Kilgore + others. Super rad and an honor!
The Year in Books | INQUEST
A curated list of 2024 publications that moved us to continue working toward a world without mass incarceration.
inquest.org
December 19, 2024 at 5:03 PM
My book "White Property, Black Trespass" is included in the year-end staff picks from @inquest.bsky.social alongside important work by @lauramctighe.bsky.social @jesspish.bsky.social @michellesphelps.bsky.social @mfkantor.bsky.social Rachel Herzing, James Kilgore + others. Super rad and an honor!
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Great to see "Fire Dreams" by @lauramctighe.bsky.social , Deon Haywood, & @womenwithavision.bsky.social included in @inquest.bsky.social 's Year in Books!
The Year in Books | INQUEST
A curated list of 2024 publications that moved us to continue working toward a world without mass incarceration.
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December 19, 2024 at 3:39 PM
Great to see "Fire Dreams" by @lauramctighe.bsky.social , Deon Haywood, & @womenwithavision.bsky.social included in @inquest.bsky.social 's Year in Books!
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In this letter to a young organizer, @prisonculture.bsky.social invites us all "to embrace uncertainty as a terrain of glorious possibility."
Too many gems to share only one. I hope you give it a read.
Too many gems to share only one. I hope you give it a read.
Letter to A Young Organizer
A Missive Across Time and Space
prisonculture.substack.com
November 13, 2024 at 3:42 PM
In this letter to a young organizer, @prisonculture.bsky.social invites us all "to embrace uncertainty as a terrain of glorious possibility."
Too many gems to share only one. I hope you give it a read.
Too many gems to share only one. I hope you give it a read.
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Coming up this Thursday, Nov 14, @lauramctighe.bsky.social and Deon Haywood, authors of “Fire Dreams,” appear on an in-person panel entitled “Abolition, Feminism, Organizing” at @redemmas.org in #Baltimore. ow.ly/QKLM50U5xTl
11/14 - Abolition, Feminism, Organizing: "All Our Trials : Prisons, Policing, and the Feminist Fight to End Violence" + "Fire Dreams: Making Black Feminist Liberation in the South" by Red Emma's
Get tickets and support Red Emma's by becoming a member
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November 12, 2024 at 7:15 PM
Coming up this Thursday, Nov 14, @lauramctighe.bsky.social and Deon Haywood, authors of “Fire Dreams,” appear on an in-person panel entitled “Abolition, Feminism, Organizing” at @redemmas.org in #Baltimore. ow.ly/QKLM50U5xTl
JOIN US this Thursday Nov 14th 6:00-7:30pm at Red Emma’s for our joint book talk *Abolition, Feminism, Organizing: “All Our Trials : Prisons, Policing, and the Feminist Fight to End Violence” + “Fire Dreams: Making Black Feminist Liberation in the South.”*
Register here! redemmas.org/events/aboli...
Register here! redemmas.org/events/aboli...
November 12, 2024 at 4:41 PM
JOIN US this Thursday Nov 14th 6:00-7:30pm at Red Emma’s for our joint book talk *Abolition, Feminism, Organizing: “All Our Trials : Prisons, Policing, and the Feminist Fight to End Violence” + “Fire Dreams: Making Black Feminist Liberation in the South.”*
Register here! redemmas.org/events/aboli...
Register here! redemmas.org/events/aboli...
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Shut down the Midtown Tunnel in NYC.
February 12, 2024 at 11:48 PM
Shut down the Midtown Tunnel in NYC.