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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
The one-year anniversary of my partner’s death is coming up. Woman incarcerated in PA sent me this card, writing, “Keep your head up & your heart open. Times of change are hard when you don’t have everyone you’d like around you but there is still joy. Holidays past are not gone…Stay hopeful.”
December 7, 2025 at 3:15 PM
One glimmer of spring coming right up!
December 2, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Congratulations!! Looking forward to reading!
November 23, 2025 at 3:33 PM
November 22, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Yep! Today in Madison Square Park:
November 22, 2025 at 10:39 PM
ABC No Rio & Rude Mechanical orchestra organized a participatory art protest at Madison Square Park today as part of Fall of Freedom. We gave out zines with info & mutual aid resources, invited passersby to think/ chalk about rights that are being decimated.
November 22, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Reminded of the rejuvenating power of community actions in bleak times
November 22, 2025 at 9:24 PM
The second is the NYC book launch for SUBMERGED, the memoir of Sheena King. Sheena is an incarcerated survivor serving LWOP. I’m honored to have written the intro & to be part of her NYC launch.
Sat, 12/13, 2-4 pm
Maysles Documentary Center, 343 Lenox Ave, Harlem
November 12, 2025 at 8:18 PM
The first is a panel discussion about community arts center ABC No Rio, its legal fight against eviction, winning against City Hall (and against Giuliani!), & threats to political orgs today.
Wed, 11/19, 6-8 pm at Brooklyn Law School. You MUST rsvp to get in: forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...
November 12, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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
NYC reminder: If you vote today, you get a cool Halloween sticker (zombie makeup is your responsibility).
October 31, 2025 at 6:31 PM
October 25, 2025 at 2:45 PM
As Silvia Moreno-Garcia noted, one way to support marginalized writers is to draw attention to their works.
Here is my Autumn reading stack: #50BooksByWOC #50BooksByPOC
October 17, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Hooray!!
October 16, 2025 at 5:32 PM
The owners of A&N still have to vacate in October but are told they can be back in the spring once the new building is complete. That means, sadly, no Chinatown snowman this winter so here’s one to get you through the long cold season:
September 5, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Congratulations!
August 29, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Congratulations!!
August 26, 2025 at 1:31 AM
August 16, 2025 at 8:00 PM
July 10, 2025 at 2:10 AM
DoorDash is one on the top 3 donors for Fix the City, which is aggressively attacking Zohran Mamdani as a “dangerous choice for mayor.”
June 18, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Sending virtual dim sum for sustenance…
April 16, 2025 at 10:40 PM
April 10, 2025 at 2:06 PM
If you’re in Nyc/Brooklyn on Saturday, come through for some affordable art and libations!!
March 27, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Painting by Elena House-Hay, currently incarcerated in PA & long time contributor to TENACIOUS: ART & WRITINGS BY WOMEN IN PRISON.

Elena’s painting will be on sale at #ABCNoRio Clothesline Art Benefit, Sat 3/29, 7-10 pm at 519 Evergreen Ave, Brooklyn
March 27, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Sending virtual Ethiopian food & lion dancers your way.
January 26, 2025 at 11:00 PM