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
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Victoria Law
@victorialaw.bsky.social
· Nov 15
Welcome new (and not-so-new) followers. I’m an author & freelance journalist focusing on incarceration, particularly women’s incarceration. My latest book, CORRIDORS OF CONTAGION, examines the Covid-19 pandemic behind bars—and the continuing fallout of prisons’ punitive responses.
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Some news: The first advanced review is in and…THE OVERSEER CLASS has been named one of the Top 10 Politics & Current Events Books of Spring 2026 by Publishers Weekly! www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
December 9, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Some news: The first advanced review is in and…THE OVERSEER CLASS has been named one of the Top 10 Politics & Current Events Books of Spring 2026 by Publishers Weekly! www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
Each year, I challenge myself to read goal 100 books w/ 50 books specifically by women of color (#50BooksByWOC). Late last night, I met both goals.
I wrote about this yearly challenge for Bitch Mag &, when it folded, highlighted notable books for Rewire News: rewirenewsgroup.com/2018/03/02/i...
I wrote about this yearly challenge for Bitch Mag &, when it folded, highlighted notable books for Rewire News: rewirenewsgroup.com/2018/03/02/i...
I'm Reading 50 Books by Women of Color This Year—Here Are Some of My Favorites So Far
I've already reviewed Patrisse Khan-Cullors' gorgeous, evocative, and thought-provoking When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir, which I think everyone should read. Here are some o...
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December 9, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Each year, I challenge myself to read goal 100 books w/ 50 books specifically by women of color (#50BooksByWOC). Late last night, I met both goals.
I wrote about this yearly challenge for Bitch Mag &, when it folded, highlighted notable books for Rewire News: rewirenewsgroup.com/2018/03/02/i...
I wrote about this yearly challenge for Bitch Mag &, when it folded, highlighted notable books for Rewire News: rewirenewsgroup.com/2018/03/02/i...
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ABOLISYON! is an abolitionist affinity group based in the Philippines that began in 2020 as a working group holding virtual educational discussions on abolition and related issues; they were contributors to our transnational TJ convening and our "Transformative Justice Knows No Borders" report:
Transformative Justice Knows No Borders — Interrupting Criminalization
A report sharing learnings from a virtual transnational transnational conference for transformative justice, restorative justice, and community accountability practitioners that took place in May 2023...
www.interruptingcriminalization.com
December 8, 2025 at 8:47 PM
ABOLISYON! is an abolitionist affinity group based in the Philippines that began in 2020 as a working group holding virtual educational discussions on abolition and related issues; they were contributors to our transnational TJ convening and our "Transformative Justice Knows No Borders" report:
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Literally all of the good things
In addition to all of the other benefits already reported about NYC congestion pricing, "In the first six months of the program, air pollution – in the form of particulate matter 2.5 micrometers and smaller – dropped by 22% in the Congestion Relief Zone (CRZ)"
news.cornell.edu/stories/2025...
news.cornell.edu/stories/2025...
Congestion pricing improved air quality in NYC and suburbs | Cornell Chronicle
Cornell researchers tallied the environmental benefits of New York City’s congestion pricing program and found air pollution dropped by 22% in Manhattan, with additional declines across the city’s fiv...
news.cornell.edu
December 9, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Literally all of the good things
2026 must read!
Coming May 19, 2026 from Amistad Books and HarperCollins
THE OVERSEER CLASS:
A Manifesto
by Steven W. Thrasher
cover art by Jamaal Barber
Available for pre-order now www.harpercollins.com/products/the...
THE OVERSEER CLASS:
A Manifesto
by Steven W. Thrasher
cover art by Jamaal Barber
Available for pre-order now www.harpercollins.com/products/the...
December 8, 2025 at 8:40 PM
2026 must read!
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🗓️Tomorrow, Dec. 9 at 8 PM ET/Dec. 10 at 9 AM Manila time: Join us & @abolisyon.bsky.social for the final webinar in our Transformative Justice Under Authoritarianism series! We'll be discussing strategies for resisting criminalization and organizing under authoritarianism. Register: bit.ly/event-pt3
December 8, 2025 at 8:37 PM
🗓️Tomorrow, Dec. 9 at 8 PM ET/Dec. 10 at 9 AM Manila time: Join us & @abolisyon.bsky.social for the final webinar in our Transformative Justice Under Authoritarianism series! We'll be discussing strategies for resisting criminalization and organizing under authoritarianism. Register: bit.ly/event-pt3
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404 Media is making a print zine! About the surveillance technologies used by ICE. 16 pages, riso printed. Shipping early January. Features reworked versions of our best reporting and a few new things. We're very excited! And hope to do more if people like it:
www.404media.co/404-media-is...
www.404media.co/404-media-is...
404 Media Is Making a Zine
We are publishing a risograph-printed zine about the surveillance technologies used by ICE.
www.404media.co
December 8, 2025 at 3:42 PM
404 Media is making a print zine! About the surveillance technologies used by ICE. 16 pages, riso printed. Shipping early January. Features reworked versions of our best reporting and a few new things. We're very excited! And hope to do more if people like it:
www.404media.co/404-media-is...
www.404media.co/404-media-is...
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What we get wrong about the Montgomery bus boycott – and what we can learn from it | Jeanne Theoharis
What we get wrong about the Montgomery bus boycott – and what we can learn from it | Jeanne Theoharis
The movement’s success was never a given. It took much longer and required tremendous sacrifice without certainty it would work
www.theguardian.com
December 7, 2025 at 1:06 PM
What we get wrong about the Montgomery bus boycott – and what we can learn from it | Jeanne Theoharis
NYC: Reminder that my last 2025 event is this Saturday in support of an incarcerated survivor’s book launch:
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
Sat, 12/13, 2-4 pm
Maysles Documentary Center, 343 Lenox Ave, Harlem
December 7, 2025 at 11:30 PM
NYC: Reminder that my last 2025 event is this Saturday in support of an incarcerated survivor’s book launch:
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yes.
I'm starting to wonder how much "the male loneliness epidemic" is just straight and bisexual women identifying low-effort, mean, and incompetent men and choosing not to date, marry, and tolerate them anymore
December 7, 2025 at 7:43 PM
yes.
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
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.”
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Anywho, it's valuable to read deeply about Montgomery if you are organizing today. Start with @jeannetheoharis.bsky.social's The Rebellious Life of Rosa Parks - www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/221039... - the book also has a young reader's edition.
The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks (10th Anniversary Edition) by Jeanne Theoharis: 9780807020616 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
“Jeanne’s book not only inspired the documentary but has been a catalyst in changing our national understanding of Rosa Parks. Highly recommend!” —Soledad O’Brien, executive...
www.penguinrandomhouse.com
December 7, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Anywho, it's valuable to read deeply about Montgomery if you are organizing today. Start with @jeannetheoharis.bsky.social's The Rebellious Life of Rosa Parks - www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/221039... - the book also has a young reader's edition.
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The movement didn't magically happen. Connections & ideas had built. The Women's Political Council had been organizing; the night Parks was arrested they decided to call for a 1-day boycott Monday. WPC leader Robinson ran off 35,000 leaflets ; they distributed them through town.
December 7, 2025 at 1:51 PM
The movement didn't magically happen. Connections & ideas had built. The Women's Political Council had been organizing; the night Parks was arrested they decided to call for a 1-day boycott Monday. WPC leader Robinson ran off 35,000 leaflets ; they distributed them through town.
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Like @prisonculture.bsky.social, I've been worried about the ways popular myths of the civil rights movement make it hard to see how to struggle today. On the 70th anniversary of the Montgomery bus boycott, the things we get wrong & what a fuller history shows us: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
What we get wrong about the Montgomery bus boycott – and what we can learn from it | Jeanne Theoharis
The movement’s success was never a given. It took much longer and required tremendous sacrifice without certainty it would work
www.theguardian.com
December 7, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Like @prisonculture.bsky.social, I've been worried about the ways popular myths of the civil rights movement make it hard to see how to struggle today. On the 70th anniversary of the Montgomery bus boycott, the things we get wrong & what a fuller history shows us: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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December 6, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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New edition from Pete Railand! "A Woody Guthrie quote for our times. Perfect for a public facing window or take it out on the town for a march.
4 color screen print from hand-cut rubylith film."
Find it in our shop! justseeds.org/product/all-...
4 color screen print from hand-cut rubylith film."
Find it in our shop! justseeds.org/product/all-...
December 6, 2025 at 9:21 PM
New edition from Pete Railand! "A Woody Guthrie quote for our times. Perfect for a public facing window or take it out on the town for a march.
4 color screen print from hand-cut rubylith film."
Find it in our shop! justseeds.org/product/all-...
4 color screen print from hand-cut rubylith film."
Find it in our shop! justseeds.org/product/all-...
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Anna May Wong — Edward S. Curtis, c. 1925
December 5, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Anna May Wong — Edward S. Curtis, c. 1925
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ICE just released new detention statistics.
As of November 30, 2025, ICE was detaining 65,735 people across the United States.
www.ice.gov/detain/deten...
As of November 30, 2025, ICE was detaining 65,735 people across the United States.
www.ice.gov/detain/deten...
Detention Management
www.ice.gov
December 5, 2025 at 7:33 PM
ICE just released new detention statistics.
As of November 30, 2025, ICE was detaining 65,735 people across the United States.
www.ice.gov/detain/deten...
As of November 30, 2025, ICE was detaining 65,735 people across the United States.
www.ice.gov/detain/deten...
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if you’re in Philadelphia and are in need of any help building, growing, harvesting, lifting, or moving anything, please let me know!!
December 5, 2025 at 9:47 PM
if you’re in Philadelphia and are in need of any help building, growing, harvesting, lifting, or moving anything, please let me know!!
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I don't think people realize how rent control was
absolutely ESSENTIAL
to NYC art and the artistic community, especially in Manhattan
And still is
absolutely ESSENTIAL
to NYC art and the artistic community, especially in Manhattan
And still is
December 6, 2025 at 12:28 AM
I don't think people realize how rent control was
absolutely ESSENTIAL
to NYC art and the artistic community, especially in Manhattan
And still is
absolutely ESSENTIAL
to NYC art and the artistic community, especially in Manhattan
And still is
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"Their rent-controlled apartment on Manhattan’s Upper East Side functioned as a fine-art storage locker as well as an exhibition space. Stacked on the floor and crammed into closets were some 4,000 works..."
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/a...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/a...
Dorothy Vogel, Librarian With a Vast Art Collection, Dies at 90
www.nytimes.com
December 6, 2025 at 12:02 AM
"Their rent-controlled apartment on Manhattan’s Upper East Side functioned as a fine-art storage locker as well as an exhibition space. Stacked on the floor and crammed into closets were some 4,000 works..."
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/a...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/a...
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A window into our budget: Our default rate for an article by a freelancer is $800.
Our follower count has increased by roughly 200 since @russ41.bsky.social made that offer... I wonder if we can grow it by another 600 followers for this offer to fund one article!
Our follower count has increased by roughly 200 since @russ41.bsky.social made that offer... I wonder if we can grow it by another 600 followers for this offer to fund one article!
December 6, 2025 at 12:09 AM
A window into our budget: Our default rate for an article by a freelancer is $800.
Our follower count has increased by roughly 200 since @russ41.bsky.social made that offer... I wonder if we can grow it by another 600 followers for this offer to fund one article!
Our follower count has increased by roughly 200 since @russ41.bsky.social made that offer... I wonder if we can grow it by another 600 followers for this offer to fund one article!
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I'm not exaggerating when I say following @boltsmag.org rn will unlock money for our journalism.
A generous reader, @russ41.bsky.social, has offered to donate $1 for every 1-person increase to our follower count.
If you're not following @boltsmag.org yet, it'll directly help fund our reporting!
A generous reader, @russ41.bsky.social, has offered to donate $1 for every 1-person increase to our follower count.
If you're not following @boltsmag.org yet, it'll directly help fund our reporting!
December 6, 2025 at 12:07 AM
I'm not exaggerating when I say following @boltsmag.org rn will unlock money for our journalism.
A generous reader, @russ41.bsky.social, has offered to donate $1 for every 1-person increase to our follower count.
If you're not following @boltsmag.org yet, it'll directly help fund our reporting!
A generous reader, @russ41.bsky.social, has offered to donate $1 for every 1-person increase to our follower count.
If you're not following @boltsmag.org yet, it'll directly help fund our reporting!