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Power Blossoms
@powerblossoms.bsky.social
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SoCal-based abolitionist org, bringing together queer & trans people on both sides of prison walls in the fight against hierarchies & State oppression

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Now some of those inside members are with us out here. Now we work with the lawyers and the reentry programs - and, astonishingly, give advice to multimillion-dollar nonprofits on how they could better run their mail programs like ours. It took work; it takes work. (Just ask the 8,000+ stamps we’ve used so far.) We’ve heard you like our aesthetic – thank you! –but there’s little glamor in supporting prisoners. We negotiate lesser defeats more often than we notch victories. You’ll think you’ve helped someone and then your letter to them gets returned, marked DECEASED with no explanation. You want to quit. But our trans & queer siblings behind bars do not and cannot quit. Their survival is no performative activism: it’s a testament to an irrepressible spirit no empire will ever succeed at stomping out. They’re not going anywhere, and neither are we. Here’s where we say, “We couldn’t have done it without you,” and we mean it. Thank you for the birthday cards! For penpaling! For donations and for volunteer-ing! We need more of all of it, and we’ll spend the weeks ahead pulling back the curtain on our work to explain why that is and explore where the next 5 years might take us. For now, though, let’s end by honoring our inside members who haven’t breathed free air since some of us were 5 years old. Do you know them? Are they a part of your community? You could; they should be. In 19th-century Brazil, it’s said that escaped slaves hid on farms where they grew camellia flowers that were sold to help fund the abolitionist movement their petals also symbolized. It’s late spring, and the camellias are still in bloom. When will we plant them together? Think and dream what else takes root on the day our power blossoms. Close-up of a white camellia flower with a soft yellow center, blooming in natural light against a background of dark green leaves.
May 8, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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May 8, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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To support her in her parole board hearing prep, we were able to connect her with re-entry housing and we wrote her a support letter to the parole board. The combined efforts of two orgs and Kelly’s hard work was enough to get her out. We are so happy she will be let out soon!
September 15, 2023 at 7:34 PM