Emile Suotonye DeWeaver
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Ghost in the Criminal Justice Machine: Reform, White Supremacy, and an Abolitionist Future, coming from The New Press on May 13, 2025
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It’s publication day for Ghost in the Criminal Justice Machine: Reform, White Supremacy, and an Abolitionist Future by Emile Suotonye DeWeaver, my debut, out with The New Press @thenewpress.bsky.social.
NEW YORK BOOK LAUNCH:
October 16 @ 6pm
Ghost Criminal Justice Machine: Reform, White Supremacy, and an Abolitionist Future, Emile Suotonye DeWeaver in conversation with NYU Associate Researcher, Itzel Corona Aguilar.
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October 16 @ 6pm
Ghost Criminal Justice Machine: Reform, White Supremacy, and an Abolitionist Future, Emile Suotonye DeWeaver in conversation with NYU Associate Researcher, Itzel Corona Aguilar.
RSVP TODAY: steinhardt.nyu.edu/events/book-...
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Book Launch | Ghost in the Criminal Justice Machine
Join Emile DeWeaver, author of Ghost in the Criminal Justice Machine: Reform, White Supremacy, and an Abolitionist Future, in conversation with NYU Associate Researcher, Itzel Corona Aguilar.
steinhardt.nyu.edu
October 3, 2025 at 8:27 PM
NEW YORK BOOK LAUNCH:
October 16 @ 6pm
Ghost Criminal Justice Machine: Reform, White Supremacy, and an Abolitionist Future, Emile Suotonye DeWeaver in conversation with NYU Associate Researcher, Itzel Corona Aguilar.
RSVP TODAY: steinhardt.nyu.edu/events/book-...
@thenewpress.bsky.social
October 16 @ 6pm
Ghost Criminal Justice Machine: Reform, White Supremacy, and an Abolitionist Future, Emile Suotonye DeWeaver in conversation with NYU Associate Researcher, Itzel Corona Aguilar.
RSVP TODAY: steinhardt.nyu.edu/events/book-...
@thenewpress.bsky.social
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NEW EPISODE!
Ep 136: The Ghost of White Supremacy with @emilesdeweaver.bsky.social
We’re joined by the activist, organizer, and writer Emile Suotonye DeWeaver, author most recently of Ghost in the Criminal Justice Machine: Reform, White Supremacy, and an Abolitionist Future.
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Ep 136: The Ghost of White Supremacy with @emilesdeweaver.bsky.social
We’re joined by the activist, organizer, and writer Emile Suotonye DeWeaver, author most recently of Ghost in the Criminal Justice Machine: Reform, White Supremacy, and an Abolitionist Future.
bit.ly/41qauOP
August 29, 2025 at 6:03 PM
NEW EPISODE!
Ep 136: The Ghost of White Supremacy with @emilesdeweaver.bsky.social
We’re joined by the activist, organizer, and writer Emile Suotonye DeWeaver, author most recently of Ghost in the Criminal Justice Machine: Reform, White Supremacy, and an Abolitionist Future.
bit.ly/41qauOP
Ep 136: The Ghost of White Supremacy with @emilesdeweaver.bsky.social
We’re joined by the activist, organizer, and writer Emile Suotonye DeWeaver, author most recently of Ghost in the Criminal Justice Machine: Reform, White Supremacy, and an Abolitionist Future.
bit.ly/41qauOP
Santa Cruz Book Launch: Ghost in the Criminal Justice Machine | Jul 18, 2025, 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM @ucscartsdivision.bsky.social Santa Cruz, 100 Panetta Ave
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Santa Cruz Book Launch: Ghost in the Criminal Justice Machine | re:frame consulting
Join us on Friday, July 18 for a book talk and signing with author Emile Suotonye DeWeaver to celebrate the release of his first book titled Ghost in the Criminal Justice Machine: Reform, White Suprem...
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July 14, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Santa Cruz Book Launch: Ghost in the Criminal Justice Machine | Jul 18, 2025, 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM @ucscartsdivision.bsky.social Santa Cruz, 100 Panetta Ave
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Chicago! June 24: launch of Ghost in the Criminal Justice Machine: Reform, White Supremacy, and an Abolitionist Future @thenewpress.bsky.social at @haymarkethouse.bsky.social . Emile Suotonye DeWeaver in conversation with longtime abolitionist organizer and author @mayaschenwar.bsky.social.
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Ghost in the Criminal Justice Machine: Emile Suotonye DeWeaver in conversation with Maya Schenwar | re:frame consulting
Join us for a celebration of Emile Suotonye DeWeaver's inaugural book, Ghost in the Criminal Justice Machine: Reform, White Supremacy, and an Abolitionist Future at Haymarket House. Emile will be in c...
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June 11, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Chicago! June 24: launch of Ghost in the Criminal Justice Machine: Reform, White Supremacy, and an Abolitionist Future @thenewpress.bsky.social at @haymarkethouse.bsky.social . Emile Suotonye DeWeaver in conversation with longtime abolitionist organizer and author @mayaschenwar.bsky.social.
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Thank you, Quentin Hardy, for coming to the launch of Ghost in the Criminal Justice Machine in Oakland and featuring it in your newsletter.
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Fix Your Imagination, Fix The World
True first steps to changing the world.
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June 11, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Thank you, Quentin Hardy, for coming to the launch of Ghost in the Criminal Justice Machine in Oakland and featuring it in your newsletter.
Read the full article: thenewcuriosityshop.substack.com/p/fix-your-i...
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The Bay Area Book Fest is this weekend! Catch me on Sunday, June 1: Ghosts of Justice: Exposing the Failures and Reimagining the Future of the American Legal System
Emile Suotonye DeWeaver, Dorsey E. Nunn, Gianna Toboni
Moderator: Piper Kerman
More Info: www.reframeconsults.com/event-detail...
Emile Suotonye DeWeaver, Dorsey E. Nunn, Gianna Toboni
Moderator: Piper Kerman
More Info: www.reframeconsults.com/event-detail...
Ghosts of Justice: Exposing the Failures and Reimagining the Future of the American Legal System | re:frame consulting
Bay Area Book Fest panel. Emile Suotonye DeWeaver, Dorsey E. Nunn, Gianna Toboni, moderator: Piper Kerman. https://www.baybookfest.org/session/ghosts-of-justice-exposing-the-failures-and-reimagining-t...
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May 28, 2025 at 4:52 PM
The Bay Area Book Fest is this weekend! Catch me on Sunday, June 1: Ghosts of Justice: Exposing the Failures and Reimagining the Future of the American Legal System
Emile Suotonye DeWeaver, Dorsey E. Nunn, Gianna Toboni
Moderator: Piper Kerman
More Info: www.reframeconsults.com/event-detail...
Emile Suotonye DeWeaver, Dorsey E. Nunn, Gianna Toboni
Moderator: Piper Kerman
More Info: www.reframeconsults.com/event-detail...
Bay Area: Emile Suotonye DeWeaver on tour.
Ghost in the Criminal Justice Machine: Reform, White Supremacy, and an Abolitionist Future @thenewpress.bsky.social
RSVP: www.reframeconsults.com/events
Ghost in the Criminal Justice Machine: Reform, White Supremacy, and an Abolitionist Future @thenewpress.bsky.social
RSVP: www.reframeconsults.com/events
May 22, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Bay Area: Emile Suotonye DeWeaver on tour.
Ghost in the Criminal Justice Machine: Reform, White Supremacy, and an Abolitionist Future @thenewpress.bsky.social
RSVP: www.reframeconsults.com/events
Ghost in the Criminal Justice Machine: Reform, White Supremacy, and an Abolitionist Future @thenewpress.bsky.social
RSVP: www.reframeconsults.com/events
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After 21 years of incarceration, former client @emilesdeweaver.bsky.social found healing through writing. Now an award-winning writer and activist, with a new book launch and a tour ahead: www.reframeconsults.com/events
We’re honored to witness his journey, transformation, and growth.
We’re honored to witness his journey, transformation, and growth.
May 14, 2025 at 7:13 PM
After 21 years of incarceration, former client @emilesdeweaver.bsky.social found healing through writing. Now an award-winning writer and activist, with a new book launch and a tour ahead: www.reframeconsults.com/events
We’re honored to witness his journey, transformation, and growth.
We’re honored to witness his journey, transformation, and growth.
Thank you for sharing an excerpt of Ghost in the Criminal Justice Machine, @truthout.org 🙏🏿
"I’d had a love-hate relationship with my own father, so I knew my child couldn’t be ashamed of me without also being ashamed of themself. My kid hadn’t been alive one month, and I felt like I’d already killed them. My heart breaking, I curled up on my bunk. I had to get out of prison."
“I’m Going to Write My Way Out of Prison”: A Vision From Solitary Confinement
Living behind bars, I realized abolition requires refusing to conflate what is easily imaginable with what is possible.
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May 14, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Thank you for sharing an excerpt of Ghost in the Criminal Justice Machine, @truthout.org 🙏🏿
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"Mine was one of many lives the state had condemned to end slowly."
"[W]hat can we do if all the characteristics we've experienced in contemporary society are white supremacist characteristics? Can we imagine the unimaginable? In a word, yes."
#USA #Incarceration
"[W]hat can we do if all the characteristics we've experienced in contemporary society are white supremacist characteristics? Can we imagine the unimaginable? In a word, yes."
#USA #Incarceration
“I’m Going to Write My Way Out of Prison”: A Vision From Solitary Confinement
Living behind bars, I realized abolition requires refusing to conflate what is easily imaginable with what is possible.
truthout.org
May 14, 2025 at 1:31 AM
"Mine was one of many lives the state had condemned to end slowly."
"[W]hat can we do if all the characteristics we've experienced in contemporary society are white supremacist characteristics? Can we imagine the unimaginable? In a word, yes."
#USA #Incarceration
"[W]hat can we do if all the characteristics we've experienced in contemporary society are white supremacist characteristics? Can we imagine the unimaginable? In a word, yes."
#USA #Incarceration
It’s publication day for Ghost in the Criminal Justice Machine: Reform, White Supremacy, and an Abolitionist Future by Emile Suotonye DeWeaver, my debut, out with The New Press @thenewpress.bsky.social.
May 13, 2025 at 2:00 PM
It’s publication day for Ghost in the Criminal Justice Machine: Reform, White Supremacy, and an Abolitionist Future by Emile Suotonye DeWeaver, my debut, out with The New Press @thenewpress.bsky.social.
From @thenewpress.bsky.social:
After 21 years in prison,
Emile Suotonye DeWeaver wrote GHOST IN THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE MACHINE—a bold and deeply personal examination of how white supremacy distorts criminal justice reform.
After 21 years in prison,
Emile Suotonye DeWeaver wrote GHOST IN THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE MACHINE—a bold and deeply personal examination of how white supremacy distorts criminal justice reform.
May 13, 2025 at 12:46 AM
From @thenewpress.bsky.social:
After 21 years in prison,
Emile Suotonye DeWeaver wrote GHOST IN THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE MACHINE—a bold and deeply personal examination of how white supremacy distorts criminal justice reform.
After 21 years in prison,
Emile Suotonye DeWeaver wrote GHOST IN THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE MACHINE—a bold and deeply personal examination of how white supremacy distorts criminal justice reform.
Ghost in the Criminal Justice Machine: Reform, White Supremacy, and an Abolitionist Future (The New Press) comes out in a week and I will be on tour. More info and RSVP:
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May 7, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Ghost in the Criminal Justice Machine: Reform, White Supremacy, and an Abolitionist Future (The New Press) comes out in a week and I will be on tour. More info and RSVP:
www.reframeconsults.com/events
www.reframeconsults.com/events
Oakland book launch for Ghost in the Criminal Justice Machine (The New Press) by Emile Suotonye DeWeaver in conversation with Nayomi Munaweera at Understory.
May 17, 5:00-7:00 pm
May 17, 5:00-7:00 pm
Oakland: Book launch in conversation with Nayomi Munaweera at Understory | re:frame consulting
Ghost in the Criminal Justice Machine launch in conversation with the amazing Nayomi Munaweera
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May 2, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Oakland book launch for Ghost in the Criminal Justice Machine (The New Press) by Emile Suotonye DeWeaver in conversation with Nayomi Munaweera at Understory.
May 17, 5:00-7:00 pm
May 17, 5:00-7:00 pm
“Despite reform efforts that have grown in scope and intensity over the last two decades, the machine of American mass incarceration continues to flourish.” search.app/jQDa4boeCM5h...
Cat Brooks interviews Emile Suotonye DeWeaver about Ghost in the Criminal Justice Machine.
Cat Brooks interviews Emile Suotonye DeWeaver about Ghost in the Criminal Justice Machine.
Reform, White Supremacy, and an Abolitionist Future; Plus Resistance in Residence Artist Colette Ghunim | KPFA
Despite reform efforts that have grown in scope and intensity over the last two decades, the machine of American mass incarceration continues to flourish. In this hour, we’re joined by formerly incarc...
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April 29, 2025 at 5:31 PM
“Despite reform efforts that have grown in scope and intensity over the last two decades, the machine of American mass incarceration continues to flourish.” search.app/jQDa4boeCM5h...
Cat Brooks interviews Emile Suotonye DeWeaver about Ghost in the Criminal Justice Machine.
Cat Brooks interviews Emile Suotonye DeWeaver about Ghost in the Criminal Justice Machine.
Thank you to Leon Garber and Alen Ulman from Seize the Moment Podcast for a great conversation.
Emile Suotonye DeWeaver - The Near Enemy of Justice: Dismantling Mass Incarceration | STM #238
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Emile Suotonye DeWeaver - The Near Enemy of Justice: Dismantling Mass Incarceration | STM #238
www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3qE...
Emile Suotonye DeWeaver - The Near Enemy of Justice: Dismantling Mass Incarceration | STM #238
YouTube video by Seize the Moment Podcast
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April 28, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Thank you to Leon Garber and Alen Ulman from Seize the Moment Podcast for a great conversation.
Emile Suotonye DeWeaver - The Near Enemy of Justice: Dismantling Mass Incarceration | STM #238
www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3qE...
Emile Suotonye DeWeaver - The Near Enemy of Justice: Dismantling Mass Incarceration | STM #238
www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3qE...
It’s independent bookstore day. Celebrate by supporting your local bookstore pre-ordering Ghost in the Criminal Justice Machine, or online, go to Bookshop.org Free shipping! bookshop.org/p/books/note...
Ghost in the Criminal Justice Machine: Reform, White Supremacy, and an Abolitionist Future
Reform, White Supremacy, and an Abolitionist Future
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April 26, 2025 at 3:55 PM
It’s independent bookstore day. Celebrate by supporting your local bookstore pre-ordering Ghost in the Criminal Justice Machine, or online, go to Bookshop.org Free shipping! bookshop.org/p/books/note...
Come party with me, Samiya Bashir, and the Unicorn Authors Club online, Thursday, April 17 at 5pm PST.
Register here: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Pre-order Party: Suotonye DeWeaver and Samiya Bashir. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Pre-order Party: Suotonye DeWeaver and Samiya Bashir. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
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April 12, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Come party with me, Samiya Bashir, and the Unicorn Authors Club online, Thursday, April 17 at 5pm PST.
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If groups in power can control what we experience, they can own our imaginations.
Read a little more about the imagination problem in my new substack post “New York Correctional Officers Strike” substack.com/@reframeconsults
Read a little more about the imagination problem in my new substack post “New York Correctional Officers Strike” substack.com/@reframeconsults
Emile DeWeaver | Substack
Pre-order Ghost in the Criminal Justice Machine: Reform, White Supremacy, and an Abolitionist Future (The New Press, May, 2025) today.
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April 4, 2025 at 8:50 PM
If groups in power can control what we experience, they can own our imaginations.
Read a little more about the imagination problem in my new substack post “New York Correctional Officers Strike” substack.com/@reframeconsults
Read a little more about the imagination problem in my new substack post “New York Correctional Officers Strike” substack.com/@reframeconsults
What's giving you hope?
Here are three things keeping me afloat:
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Here are three things keeping me afloat:
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April 3, 2025 at 12:33 AM
What's giving you hope?
Here are three things keeping me afloat:
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Here are three things keeping me afloat:
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Emile Suotonye DeWeaver is a 2025 Writing Freedom Fellow. DeWeaver is the author of Ghost in the Criminal Justice Machine (2025) and writes about the insidious ways white supremacy compromises freedom. Listen to him read from his book:
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March 25, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Emile Suotonye DeWeaver is a 2025 Writing Freedom Fellow. DeWeaver is the author of Ghost in the Criminal Justice Machine (2025) and writes about the insidious ways white supremacy compromises freedom. Listen to him read from his book:
Honored to share I'm a 2025 Writing Freedom Fellow
This fellowship connects me to a larger conversation about justice. Our problems can’t be solved by one person’s ideas. A collective must discuss ideas and come to a consensus about how we will move as a movement.
This fellowship connects me to a larger conversation about justice. Our problems can’t be solved by one person’s ideas. A collective must discuss ideas and come to a consensus about how we will move as a movement.
2024 Writing Freedom Fellows
Meet the 2024 Writing Freedom Fellows.
writing-freedom.org
March 25, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Honored to share I'm a 2025 Writing Freedom Fellow
This fellowship connects me to a larger conversation about justice. Our problems can’t be solved by one person’s ideas. A collective must discuss ideas and come to a consensus about how we will move as a movement.
This fellowship connects me to a larger conversation about justice. Our problems can’t be solved by one person’s ideas. A collective must discuss ideas and come to a consensus about how we will move as a movement.
I’m Emile Suotonye DeWeaver.
Ghost in the Criminal Justice Machine: Reform, White Supremacy, and an Abolitionist Future (May 13, 2025 @thenewpress) is my forthcoming essay collection.
Pre-order it: www.reframeconsults.com/ghostinthecr...
Ghost in the Criminal Justice Machine: Reform, White Supremacy, and an Abolitionist Future (May 13, 2025 @thenewpress) is my forthcoming essay collection.
Pre-order it: www.reframeconsults.com/ghostinthecr...
Ghost in the Criminal Justice Machine | re:frame consulting
Ghost in the Criminal Justice Machine: Reform, White Supremacy, and an Abolitionist Future
a book by writer Emile Suotonye DeWeaver
Published by The New Press
www.reframeconsults.com
March 24, 2025 at 9:33 PM
I’m Emile Suotonye DeWeaver.
Ghost in the Criminal Justice Machine: Reform, White Supremacy, and an Abolitionist Future (May 13, 2025 @thenewpress) is my forthcoming essay collection.
Pre-order it: www.reframeconsults.com/ghostinthecr...
Ghost in the Criminal Justice Machine: Reform, White Supremacy, and an Abolitionist Future (May 13, 2025 @thenewpress) is my forthcoming essay collection.
Pre-order it: www.reframeconsults.com/ghostinthecr...