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Dr. Brittany Friedman
@curlyprofessor.bsky.social
🏹 Los Angeles |🌱Herbalist + Mystic | sociologist + professor | 📖 Author of CARCERAL APARTHEID | 🪬| www.brittanyfriedman.com
“WE WERE NEVER MEANT TO OBEY” - New writing from me @polrightsrev.bsky.social

politicsrights.com/obey-aboliti...
July 22, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Countdown begins!
📍NYC - arrived ✅
May 7, 2025 at 8:26 PM
📢 TONIGHT! NYC
Event has been moved to the Main Location of Word Up Community Books!
See ⬇️
May 7, 2025 at 5:54 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
May 6, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Los Angeles— see you tomorrow @latimes.com Festival of Books 🎙️📚 !!
April 27, 2025 at 5:12 AM
This was such an amazing event!
April 27, 2025 at 5:10 AM
See you soon Chicago!
Can’t wait to be in conversation w/ Reuben Miller on Wednesday @630pm at Volumes Bookcafe in Wicker Park.
Grab a ticket here:

www.eventbrite.com/e/brittany-f...
April 21, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Appreciate this article on the event & my book Carceral Apartheid:

www.browndailyherald.com/article/2025...
April 3, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Today!!
March 31, 2025 at 1:30 PM
March 20, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Y’all this event w/ Dorsey @allofusornonehq.bsky.social and the community building in the Bay was everything!
📍Book Passage - San Francisco
March 20, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Today at 330 PST we @raqueldelerme.bsky.social will be live on KPFK w/ Maria Hall for “Lawyers Guild Radio” talking about our February 21st piece @theconversation.com where we predicted a rise in surveillance, disappearances, & political warfare under Trump. 🎙️
March 19, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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.
March 9, 2025 at 4:45 AM
If you live in NYC you might have caught this live on 📺 but if not, check out this convo with Daren Jaime, host of the Bronx Social Justice and Anti-Violence Forums where we discuss CARCERAL APARTHEID & the history of corruption in U.S. prisons as a continuation of slavery and colonialism.
March 3, 2025 at 4:54 AM
Bay Area—would love to see you at Book Passage on March 16th at 2pm in San Francisco as Dorsey Nunn and I discuss the history of racial warfare in CA prisons, the state arming of white supremacists, and what healing looks like for our communities.
February 27, 2025 at 4:55 PM
📢SoCal and the Bay — two upcoming events for CARCERAL APARTHEID! @uncpress.bsky.social

SoCal—Come join the conversation on March 10th at 7pm as we discuss the true meaning of social control, disinformation, & the history of CA prisons at Vroman’s Bookstore.
February 27, 2025 at 4:55 PM
What an event today for Carceral Apartheid @uncpress.bsky.social at People’s Book @peoplesbooktakoma.com
So grateful!
February 23, 2025 at 10:30 PM
February 3, 2025 at 4:50 AM
This was a phenomenal start to my book tour. Such inspiring questions from @deray.bsky.social & wonderful engagement by the audience at Politics & Prose. I’m so grateful. Amazing way to start this tour! Thank you 🙏🏼
February 3, 2025 at 4:50 AM
We’re here! Getting started in 30 mins. Politics & Prose will also be live-streaming at 3pm EST from their YouTube ❤️
February 2, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Despite everything, I’m very happy to embark on a national and international book tour for CARCERAL APARTHEID, beginning today at Politics & Prose in DC, with stops in Chicago, NYC, Philly, LA Times Festival of Book, and Barcelona, and London - all on my website- w/ more coming. Kicking off today:
February 2, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Thank you to Black Studies and Black Twitter for holding this extractive white scholar accountable. Reposting to Blue Sky since he’s hiding over here.
February 2, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Today is the publication day for my new book. Join me in celebrating by listening to a reading of one of my favorite passages. 🌹🎙️
@uncpress.bsky.social

Get your copy today and share your favorite parts. Thanks for the support and hope you enjoy.
January 7, 2025 at 7:30 PM
I recently talked herbalism 🌱, healing, and rejecting grind culture on Great Day Washington 📺
Our collective joy is more important than the extractive grind culture of our world.

Watch the clip but catch the full interview here:

bit.ly/40hvU0h
January 5, 2025 at 5:21 PM
In 3 days, on PUB DAY @uncpress.bsky.social we
@deray.bsky.social will be at Politics & Prose! Join us Jan 7th at 7pm EST and if you’re not in DC, catch the live stream here:

www.youtube.com/live/XhgLchE...
January 4, 2025 at 11:27 PM