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Kwaneta Harris
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Incarcerated Journalist, Writer, and Activist. Exposing the abuses and conditions suffered by incarcerated women daily. Account managed by assistant.

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Kwaneta & Black Girl's Guide to Surviving Menopause collaborated on a three-part series on menopause, incarceration, and the climate crisis for Scalawag.

Part 1: scalawagmagazine.org/2025/10/cool...

Part 2: scalawagmagazine.org/2025/10/the-...

Part 3: scalawagmagazine.org/2025/10/burn...
October 27, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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This summer, Kwaneta’s essay Behind the Walls was published in a special issue of ZEKE Magazine, Window Into Solitary.

Read her work and consider supporting as a paid Substack subscriber: kwanetaharris.substack.com/p/behind-the...
October 23, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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Read "The Power of Unity: Dismantling the Carceral State from Within," Kwaneta's latest piece for Substack. Her essay was the cover story for the August edition of San Francisco Bayview, a national Black newspaper that has been in circulation since 1976.

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August 30, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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A message from V, a letter to Kwaneta's teenage self, Black August, and a fundraiser to bring Kwaneta's family together. Read Kwaneta's latest Substack and support her family's fundraiser to offset travel costs for an in-person visit!

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August 6, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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Kwaneta sends a very special congratulations to her friend and comrade Dutch on the premiere of SIN, a screenplay he authored, on Tubi. Kwaneta is deeply inspired by his prolificness and the depth of his work, especially as an incarcerated writer.

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August 6, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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In her latest Substack — “Texas Hold’em: How the Prison System Keeps its Grip on Parole-Eligible People” — Kwaneta highlights the arbitrariness of the parole system, questioning the illogics of the prison system as a whole.

Read more and subscribe: kwanetaharris.substack.com/p/texas-holdem
July 31, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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Kwaneta's latest piece on Substack highlights her bylines in @solitarywatch.bsky.social, Real Hood Square, @themarshallproject.org, @filmcomment.com.web.brid.gy, and Apogee Journal.

Thank you for reading!

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July 22, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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Check out Kwaneta's latest writing published on Hood Square. She speaks out against prison staff’s use of disinformation to stigmatize, further marginalize, and additionally criminalize already incarcerated LGBTQ+ people.

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July 12, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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“We share everything — from toothpaste to trauma. This care work is needed because the system won’t do it ... Mothering in here is interdependent. It is survival. It is resistance. It is the radical act of saying: You still matter. You are still loved.”

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June 11, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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Mother’s Day is a difficult time for many families, particularly for incarcerated mothers and their loved ones.

Kwaneta and her youngest daughter, Summer, penned an essay about their relationship and how solitary confinement tries to break family bonds.

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May 11, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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In "Cruel Paradox of Freedom," Kwaneta writes about MacKenzie, who is anxious and scared ahead of her upcoming release from prison. With no resources or support awaiting her on the outside, "she faces a vast wilderness of uncertainty."

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April 9, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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Yesterday, Mellon Foundation and @haymarketbooks.org announced the selection of the 2025 Writing Freedom Fellows. In celebration of the expansion of the program, Kwaneta was invited to write an essay about her own experience being named a 2024 fellow.

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March 26, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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I’m an Incarcerated Nurse — Women’s Health in Prison Is Hell and Will Only Get Worse Under Trump

by Kwaneta Harris for @rollingstone.com

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March 22, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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We are beyond excited to share that after months of hard work, a segment Kwaneta authored will air on
@thisamericanlife.org. Tune in this weekend to your local
@npr.org station for the live broadcast and/or listen to the show on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, etc.
March 14, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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This Women's History Month, consider directly supporting @kwanetaharris.bsky.social writing about women's prisons and the gendered differences in experiences of incarceration. Subscribe to WRITE OR DIE, her Substack featuring raw dispatches from Texas women's prisons.

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March 10, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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Introducing WRITE OR DIE: Raw Dispatches from Texas Women’s Prisons, a new Substack by Kwaneta Harris.

This publication — delivered directly to your inbox — is an extension of Kwaneta’s writing and analysis on firsthand experiences of incarceration.

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February 13, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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As of last week, Kwaneta’s tablet has been replaced! She is diligently working to catch up on messages and appreciates folks’ patience and support. Thank you to any and everyone who called, emailed, and otherwise assisted in getting this matter resolved.

Happy New Year!
January 17, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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Thank you to any and everyone who has reached out and expressed concern about Kwaneta! Her tablet has been broken for over a week.

Please email (kwanetaharris@gmail.com) or DM her via social media (@kwanetaharris) and her assistant will relay messages during their weekly call.
December 25, 2024 at 3:05 AM
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December 10, 2024 at 8:23 AM
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Want to directly support @kwanetaharris.bsky.social? Consider joining her freedom campaign!

Help us circulate this flyer and interest form as we work to build her team. We need folks with all different kinds of skillsets; there's a place for you!

Interest form: bit.ly/j4kfcvolunteer
December 6, 2024 at 3:28 PM
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Kwaneta Harris is a former nurse, business owner and expat, now incarcerated journalist and a @haymarketbooks.org Writing Freedom Fellow. Her powerful and shocking stories expose how the intersection of gender, race and place contribute to state-sanctioned, gender-based violence.

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December 6, 2024 at 3:10 AM