Victoria Law
@victorialaw.bsky.social
Freelance journalist & author. Latest book: CORRIDORS OF CONTAGION: How the Pandemic Exposed the Cruelties of Incarceration (Haymarket, 2024). https://linktr.ee/victorialaw
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Victoria Law
@victorialaw.bsky.social
· Nov 15
Welcome new (and not-so-new) followers. I’m an author & freelance journalist focusing on incarceration, particularly women’s incarceration. My latest book, CORRIDORS OF CONTAGION, examines the Covid-19 pandemic behind bars—and the continuing fallout of prisons’ punitive responses.
I send pics of food & nyc sights to folks in prison.
“My roommate has been incarcerated since she was 15 for 31 years. She spends every. Single. Night. Looking at ALL food, nature & travel pics on my tablet. Prison removed food & travel stuff from our tablets. Someone must’ve told them we liked it.”
“My roommate has been incarcerated since she was 15 for 31 years. She spends every. Single. Night. Looking at ALL food, nature & travel pics on my tablet. Prison removed food & travel stuff from our tablets. Someone must’ve told them we liked it.”
November 10, 2025 at 9:36 PM
I send pics of food & nyc sights to folks in prison.
“My roommate has been incarcerated since she was 15 for 31 years. She spends every. Single. Night. Looking at ALL food, nature & travel pics on my tablet. Prison removed food & travel stuff from our tablets. Someone must’ve told them we liked it.”
“My roommate has been incarcerated since she was 15 for 31 years. She spends every. Single. Night. Looking at ALL food, nature & travel pics on my tablet. Prison removed food & travel stuff from our tablets. Someone must’ve told them we liked it.”
The wait time to get a live person at PACER is currently 223 minutes.
November 10, 2025 at 7:44 PM
The wait time to get a live person at PACER is currently 223 minutes.
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CUNY is waiving its application fee from Nov. 10-21 for New York State high school seniors on pace to graduate next year. You can apply to up to six of our colleges with one application! Go to cuny.edu/apply.
November 10, 2025 at 6:00 PM
CUNY is waiving its application fee from Nov. 10-21 for New York State high school seniors on pace to graduate next year. You can apply to up to six of our colleges with one application! Go to cuny.edu/apply.
Cooking in maximum security (prisons in Italy). Just ordered & looking forward to sharing with folks in US prisons
halfletterpress.com/cooking-in-m...
halfletterpress.com/cooking-in-m...
Cooking in Maximum Security
Cooking in Maximum Security was compiled by Matteo Guidi, working with people detained in the high surveillance sections of Italian prisons, through a continuous exchange of letters between 2009 and 2...
halfletterpress.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Cooking in maximum security (prisons in Italy). Just ordered & looking forward to sharing with folks in US prisons
halfletterpress.com/cooking-in-m...
halfletterpress.com/cooking-in-m...
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So far only 3 NYC Council Members are on record supporting our 0.5% demand for public libraries. That's pathetic. nycplan.org/scorecards/l... - If you don't see your Council member on the list, then you should be giving them a call this week.
Library Funding Stances by City Council Members
nycplan.org
November 9, 2025 at 6:34 PM
So far only 3 NYC Council Members are on record supporting our 0.5% demand for public libraries. That's pathetic. nycplan.org/scorecards/l... - If you don't see your Council member on the list, then you should be giving them a call this week.
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Make the Goddamn meal and put it in your Free Fridge. Write the $100 check to the food bank. Ask your local school what they need for the kids and then go about trying to get that stuff.... Do these things regularly and you are making meaningful contributions to your communities.
November 9, 2025 at 3:50 AM
Make the Goddamn meal and put it in your Free Fridge. Write the $100 check to the food bank. Ask your local school what they need for the kids and then go about trying to get that stuff.... Do these things regularly and you are making meaningful contributions to your communities.
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Senate update: Republicans are now trying to sneak a backdoor national abortion ban into their government funding bill. Republicans will stop at nothing to control women's health care decisions.
November 8, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Senate update: Republicans are now trying to sneak a backdoor national abortion ban into their government funding bill. Republicans will stop at nothing to control women's health care decisions.
Going thru my phone, I found this reminder of the importance of sending books to people in prison. This was from a man who had been in solitary confinement for several years & received PRISON BY ANY OTHER NAME, my book with @mayaschenwar.bsky.social
November 8, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Going thru my phone, I found this reminder of the importance of sending books to people in prison. This was from a man who had been in solitary confinement for several years & received PRISON BY ANY OTHER NAME, my book with @mayaschenwar.bsky.social
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5/ Every hospital waiting area should look like this
November 7, 2025 at 12:35 PM
5/ Every hospital waiting area should look like this
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Do you live in NYC City Council district 45 ( Flatbush, East Flatbush, Midwood, Flatlands, and parts of Kensington, Marine Park, and Canarsie)? Your city council rep is on the libraries subcommittee. Send her a letter asking for stable library funding?
actionnetwork.org/letters/city...
actionnetwork.org/letters/city...
City Council, we demand half a percent of the overall city budget for libraries!
In response to the NYC FY2026 Budget, adopted this June, the Brooklyn Public Library, the New York Public Library, and the Queens Public Library released a joint statement thanking City Leaders for in...
actionnetwork.org
November 7, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Do you live in NYC City Council district 45 ( Flatbush, East Flatbush, Midwood, Flatlands, and parts of Kensington, Marine Park, and Canarsie)? Your city council rep is on the libraries subcommittee. Send her a letter asking for stable library funding?
actionnetwork.org/letters/city...
actionnetwork.org/letters/city...
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My fantasy novella, "The Lure of Stone," can now be read online at Uncanny Magazine.
www.uncannymagazine.com/article/the-...
www.uncannymagazine.com/article/the-...
The Lure of Stone - Uncanny Magazine
They saw the men when they were close to reaching Elmesak; they rode two by two and all six of them were decked in crimson. Yalxi set the bedroll and the pack with their supplies down by the side of t...
www.uncannymagazine.com
September 2, 2025 at 5:33 PM
My fantasy novella, "The Lure of Stone," can now be read online at Uncanny Magazine.
www.uncannymagazine.com/article/the-...
www.uncannymagazine.com/article/the-...
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Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default.
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
November 6, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default.
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
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If you’re working on or building a community crisis response team or other intervention without using the police and other carceral systems, we offer support, thought partnership, and one-on-one consultation through our free Transformative Justice Help Desk, staffed by IC Fellow Shira Hassan:
Transformative Justice Help Desk — Interrupting Criminalization
www.interruptingcriminalization.com
November 6, 2025 at 10:11 PM
If you’re working on or building a community crisis response team or other intervention without using the police and other carceral systems, we offer support, thought partnership, and one-on-one consultation through our free Transformative Justice Help Desk, staffed by IC Fellow Shira Hassan:
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Migrants Find Home Away From Home at Cafewal, a Volunteer-Run Resource Center documentedny.com/2025/08/01/c...
August 5, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Migrants Find Home Away From Home at Cafewal, a Volunteer-Run Resource Center documentedny.com/2025/08/01/c...
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Three high schoolers founded a book club that reads some of the country's most frequently banned books after a state law removing books with sexual content was signed in 2023. Two years later, many of the books have been reshelved and parts of the law can't be enforced.
When books were being pulled from Iowa classrooms, these teens started an after-school club to read them
Three Iowa City West high schoolers founded a book club that reads some of the country's most frequently banned books after a state law removing books with sexual content was signed in 2023. Two years later, many of the books have been reshelved and parts of the law can't be enforced.
n.pr
October 20, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Three high schoolers founded a book club that reads some of the country's most frequently banned books after a state law removing books with sexual content was signed in 2023. Two years later, many of the books have been reshelved and parts of the law can't be enforced.
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Protecting incarcerated people’s access to physical mail and inside-led print publishing is a feminist public safety issue. These letters and publications sustain dignity, care, legal literacy, and organizing.
New Prison Mail Policies Threaten Newsletters by and for Incarcerated People
States are adopting surveillance-oriented “paperless” policies that deny incarcerated people access to physical letters.
truthout.org
November 4, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Protecting incarcerated people’s access to physical mail and inside-led print publishing is a feminist public safety issue. These letters and publications sustain dignity, care, legal literacy, and organizing.
“A poem written somewhere in Turkey in 1909 that had journeyed around the Ottoman Empire, took a boat to Argentina in 1913, then another to Boston in 1917, then moved to Detroit in 1918 and waited more than a century to come home to Armenia.”
In 1909, @jeannetheoharis.bsky “s
great-grandfather Garabed Artinian composed a destan, or epic poem, 5 weeks after the Adana massacres to chronicle what had happened to the city’s Armenians & to call on the world to act. 116 years later, his poem has gone home.
armenianweekly.com/2025/11/04/t...
great-grandfather Garabed Artinian composed a destan, or epic poem, 5 weeks after the Adana massacres to chronicle what had happened to the city’s Armenians & to call on the world to act. 116 years later, his poem has gone home.
armenianweekly.com/2025/11/04/t...
The poem goes home
Our great grandfather hadn’t crossed the Atlantic Ocean in 112 years — but he was about to. Maybe not all of him, but a piece of him: a poem he had written after his family was massacred and he was dr...
armenianweekly.com
November 6, 2025 at 8:43 PM
“A poem written somewhere in Turkey in 1909 that had journeyed around the Ottoman Empire, took a boat to Argentina in 1913, then another to Boston in 1917, then moved to Detroit in 1918 and waited more than a century to come home to Armenia.”
In 1909, @jeannetheoharis.bsky “s
great-grandfather Garabed Artinian composed a destan, or epic poem, 5 weeks after the Adana massacres to chronicle what had happened to the city’s Armenians & to call on the world to act. 116 years later, his poem has gone home.
armenianweekly.com/2025/11/04/t...
great-grandfather Garabed Artinian composed a destan, or epic poem, 5 weeks after the Adana massacres to chronicle what had happened to the city’s Armenians & to call on the world to act. 116 years later, his poem has gone home.
armenianweekly.com/2025/11/04/t...
The poem goes home
Our great grandfather hadn’t crossed the Atlantic Ocean in 112 years — but he was about to. Maybe not all of him, but a piece of him: a poem he had written after his family was massacred and he was dr...
armenianweekly.com
November 6, 2025 at 8:42 PM
In 1909, @jeannetheoharis.bsky “s
great-grandfather Garabed Artinian composed a destan, or epic poem, 5 weeks after the Adana massacres to chronicle what had happened to the city’s Armenians & to call on the world to act. 116 years later, his poem has gone home.
armenianweekly.com/2025/11/04/t...
great-grandfather Garabed Artinian composed a destan, or epic poem, 5 weeks after the Adana massacres to chronicle what had happened to the city’s Armenians & to call on the world to act. 116 years later, his poem has gone home.
armenianweekly.com/2025/11/04/t...
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someone got indicted on the basis of “transporting antifa materials” for allegedly transporting a box of ZINES
THEY’RE PROSECUTING PEOPLE FOR DOMESTIC TERRORISM OVER ZINES
THEY’RE PROSECUTING PEOPLE FOR DOMESTIC TERRORISM OVER ZINES
Alarming criminalization of green card holder based on "Antifa Materials" - another attempt to silence dissent and target people critical of this administration
Release Des and the Prairieland Defendants!
Release Des and the Prairieland Defendants!
November 6, 2025 at 5:16 AM
someone got indicted on the basis of “transporting antifa materials” for allegedly transporting a box of ZINES
THEY’RE PROSECUTING PEOPLE FOR DOMESTIC TERRORISM OVER ZINES
THEY’RE PROSECUTING PEOPLE FOR DOMESTIC TERRORISM OVER ZINES
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Woke up this morning, watched a video from Gaza of a little boy dressed up as Zohran, and now my tears won't stop.
From the 75% of people in Flatbush voting for Zohran to a child finding hope from our actions across the globe, we are all connected, and we will beat the monsters.
From the 75% of people in Flatbush voting for Zohran to a child finding hope from our actions across the globe, we are all connected, and we will beat the monsters.
November 6, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Woke up this morning, watched a video from Gaza of a little boy dressed up as Zohran, and now my tears won't stop.
From the 75% of people in Flatbush voting for Zohran to a child finding hope from our actions across the globe, we are all connected, and we will beat the monsters.
From the 75% of people in Flatbush voting for Zohran to a child finding hope from our actions across the globe, we are all connected, and we will beat the monsters.
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What I made today for the community fridge/pantry: trail mix!
The version without M&Ms is non-dairy, as my favorite chocolate chips from Trader Joe's happen to be dairy-free.
The version without M&Ms is non-dairy, as my favorite chocolate chips from Trader Joe's happen to be dairy-free.
November 6, 2025 at 2:11 AM
What I made today for the community fridge/pantry: trail mix!
The version without M&Ms is non-dairy, as my favorite chocolate chips from Trader Joe's happen to be dairy-free.
The version without M&Ms is non-dairy, as my favorite chocolate chips from Trader Joe's happen to be dairy-free.
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guys I’m sorry but have you looked through Getty images for yesterday 💀
November 6, 2025 at 2:21 AM
guys I’m sorry but have you looked through Getty images for yesterday 💀
“I’m sick for a 2nd time. I have a lifer friend…he checked up on my w/soup & homemade cheesecake. 2 other guys dropped by with juice packets. We’re hoping the packets have vitamin c…I live in a ‘resource-scarce’ environment, esp since Stillwater closed.” -man incarcerated in MN
My latest for @thenation.com compares my recent Covid hospitalization with prisons’ lack of testing & treatment and, in some places, outright gaslighting www.thenation.com/article/soci...
We've Entered the Gaslighting Phase of Covid in Prisons
Covid is spreading, but incarcerated people are being told vaccines aren't necessary.
www.thenation.com
November 6, 2025 at 12:12 AM
“I’m sick for a 2nd time. I have a lifer friend…he checked up on my w/soup & homemade cheesecake. 2 other guys dropped by with juice packets. We’re hoping the packets have vitamin c…I live in a ‘resource-scarce’ environment, esp since Stillwater closed.” -man incarcerated in MN