Andrew Krinks
@andrewkrinks.bsky.social
Educator, writer & movement builder at intersection of religion, race, carcerality & abolition. Book: White Property, Black Trespass: Racial Capitalism & the Religious Function of Mass Criminalization (NYU Press 2024). Nashville, TN. linktr.ee/andrewkrinks
Not to mention:
November 17, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Not to mention:
Pretty much can't beat this coming out when you're 16.
November 17, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Pretty much can't beat this coming out when you're 16.
I'll be in North Carolina on Nov 12 to talk about criminalization, abolition, and political spirituality.
The talk will move somewhere between the book I already wrote (on the religious function of criminalization) and the one I'm trying to write next (on political spirituality and abolition).
The talk will move somewhere between the book I already wrote (on the religious function of criminalization) and the one I'm trying to write next (on political spirituality and abolition).
October 30, 2025 at 2:26 PM
I'll be in North Carolina on Nov 12 to talk about criminalization, abolition, and political spirituality.
The talk will move somewhere between the book I already wrote (on the religious function of criminalization) and the one I'm trying to write next (on political spirituality and abolition).
The talk will move somewhere between the book I already wrote (on the religious function of criminalization) and the one I'm trying to write next (on political spirituality and abolition).
I made a poster with words that are true and art that is interesting and you can get your own for $15.
August 12, 2025 at 10:45 PM
I made a poster with words that are true and art that is interesting and you can get your own for $15.
for transparency, I wrote a book about the religious function of mass criminalization and am now working on another about political spiritualities of abolition. I have tried to condense my version of the point I hear you making like this:
August 12, 2025 at 8:40 PM
for transparency, I wrote a book about the religious function of mass criminalization and am now working on another about political spiritualities of abolition. I have tried to condense my version of the point I hear you making like this:
Members of Black’s family have also been unhoused in Nashville. Quickly or slowly, by deprivation or by execution, the colonial-capitalist-carceral state exposes many to premature death in order to empower a few to enjoy godlike power over people and planet. The purpose of a system is what it does.
August 6, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Members of Black’s family have also been unhoused in Nashville. Quickly or slowly, by deprivation or by execution, the colonial-capitalist-carceral state exposes many to premature death in order to empower a few to enjoy godlike power over people and planet. The purpose of a system is what it does.
Middle Tennessee Christians for Justice in Palestine, Nour Nashville, PSL Nashville, and the American Muslim Advisory Council invite people of faith and conscience from across Middle Tennessee to join us to take action against Israel’s active genocide and forced starvation of the people of Gaza.
July 31, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Middle Tennessee Christians for Justice in Palestine, Nour Nashville, PSL Nashville, and the American Muslim Advisory Council invite people of faith and conscience from across Middle Tennessee to join us to take action against Israel’s active genocide and forced starvation of the people of Gaza.
We'll be gathering folks to be present to the genocide, direct resources on the spot to people on the ground in Gaza, get involved in BDS, call reps, take further action, etc.
July 31, 2025 at 2:54 PM
We'll be gathering folks to be present to the genocide, direct resources on the spot to people on the ground in Gaza, get involved in BDS, call reps, take further action, etc.
Here's something I wrote in my book about Thin Blue Line mythology, using Ronald Reagan's 1981 speech to a crowd of cops as a good case study. It might help clarify the "darkness" and "existential threat" comments from DHS.
July 28, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Here's something I wrote in my book about Thin Blue Line mythology, using Ronald Reagan's 1981 speech to a crowd of cops as a good case study. It might help clarify the "darkness" and "existential threat" comments from DHS.
Classic Thin Blue Line political theology.
From DHS on Twitter:
"TO EVERY CRIMINAL ILLEGAL ALIEN IN AMERICA: Darkness is no longer your ally. You represent an existential threat to the citizens of the US, and US Border Patrol's Special Operations Group will stop at nothing to hunt you down."
From DHS on Twitter:
"TO EVERY CRIMINAL ILLEGAL ALIEN IN AMERICA: Darkness is no longer your ally. You represent an existential threat to the citizens of the US, and US Border Patrol's Special Operations Group will stop at nothing to hunt you down."
July 28, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Classic Thin Blue Line political theology.
From DHS on Twitter:
"TO EVERY CRIMINAL ILLEGAL ALIEN IN AMERICA: Darkness is no longer your ally. You represent an existential threat to the citizens of the US, and US Border Patrol's Special Operations Group will stop at nothing to hunt you down."
From DHS on Twitter:
"TO EVERY CRIMINAL ILLEGAL ALIEN IN AMERICA: Darkness is no longer your ally. You represent an existential threat to the citizens of the US, and US Border Patrol's Special Operations Group will stop at nothing to hunt you down."
The mayor of Johnston, Rhode Island plans to take the site of a 31-acre planned low-income housing development by eminent domain in order to build a cop city instead.
Organized abandonment and organized violence in its most condensed and cartoonish form.
House keys not handcuffs. Stop Cop Nation.
Organized abandonment and organized violence in its most condensed and cartoonish form.
House keys not handcuffs. Stop Cop Nation.
January 28, 2025 at 4:42 AM
The mayor of Johnston, Rhode Island plans to take the site of a 31-acre planned low-income housing development by eminent domain in order to build a cop city instead.
Organized abandonment and organized violence in its most condensed and cartoonish form.
House keys not handcuffs. Stop Cop Nation.
Organized abandonment and organized violence in its most condensed and cartoonish form.
House keys not handcuffs. Stop Cop Nation.
“If cops & cages fulfill a religious function on which people’s sense of reality depends, then abolition must offer an even more irresistible means of transcendence & transformation on the way to a world made new.”
bit.ly/wpbtposter
bit.ly/wpbtposter
December 30, 2024 at 4:04 PM
“If cops & cages fulfill a religious function on which people’s sense of reality depends, then abolition must offer an even more irresistible means of transcendence & transformation on the way to a world made new.”
bit.ly/wpbtposter
bit.ly/wpbtposter
If you’re in Chicago on Thursday, Jan 9, join me @pilsencommbooks.bsky.social at 7pm for a book talk + conversation with Rev. Dr. Christophe Ringer + Rev. Jason Lydon on the religion of criminalization + the religion of abolition.
Books + posters will be available.
Let your Chicago people know!
Books + posters will be available.
Let your Chicago people know!
December 30, 2024 at 4:04 PM
If you’re in Chicago on Thursday, Jan 9, join me @pilsencommbooks.bsky.social at 7pm for a book talk + conversation with Rev. Dr. Christophe Ringer + Rev. Jason Lydon on the religion of criminalization + the religion of abolition.
Books + posters will be available.
Let your Chicago people know!
Books + posters will be available.
Let your Chicago people know!
"if we really want an effective end to violence we must remove the violence that lies at the root of all violence: structural violence, social injustice, exclusion of citizens from the management of the country, repression. All this...constitutes the primal cause from which the rest flows naturally"
December 11, 2024 at 6:00 PM
"if we really want an effective end to violence we must remove the violence that lies at the root of all violence: structural violence, social injustice, exclusion of citizens from the management of the country, repression. All this...constitutes the primal cause from which the rest flows naturally"
December 9, 2024 at 4:12 PM
Buying a gift for an abolitionist? I got you!
bit.ly/wpbtposter
Poster reads:
“If cops & cages fulfill a religious function on which people’s sense of reality depends, then abolition must offer an even more irresistible means of transcendence & transformation on the way to a world made new.”
bit.ly/wpbtposter
Poster reads:
“If cops & cages fulfill a religious function on which people’s sense of reality depends, then abolition must offer an even more irresistible means of transcendence & transformation on the way to a world made new.”
December 9, 2024 at 4:12 PM
Buying a gift for an abolitionist? I got you!
bit.ly/wpbtposter
Poster reads:
“If cops & cages fulfill a religious function on which people’s sense of reality depends, then abolition must offer an even more irresistible means of transcendence & transformation on the way to a world made new.”
bit.ly/wpbtposter
Poster reads:
“If cops & cages fulfill a religious function on which people’s sense of reality depends, then abolition must offer an even more irresistible means of transcendence & transformation on the way to a world made new.”
$15 POSTER SALE!
ORDER: bit.ly/wpbtposter
Poster designed by me with art depicting two partially superimposed statuesque, cut+paste-style police heads—one fracturing, the other solid. Words beneath are a synthesis of lines from my book "White Property, Black Trespass." (text in alt-text + below)
ORDER: bit.ly/wpbtposter
Poster designed by me with art depicting two partially superimposed statuesque, cut+paste-style police heads—one fracturing, the other solid. Words beneath are a synthesis of lines from my book "White Property, Black Trespass." (text in alt-text + below)
December 9, 2024 at 4:12 PM
$15 POSTER SALE!
ORDER: bit.ly/wpbtposter
Poster designed by me with art depicting two partially superimposed statuesque, cut+paste-style police heads—one fracturing, the other solid. Words beneath are a synthesis of lines from my book "White Property, Black Trespass." (text in alt-text + below)
ORDER: bit.ly/wpbtposter
Poster designed by me with art depicting two partially superimposed statuesque, cut+paste-style police heads—one fracturing, the other solid. Words beneath are a synthesis of lines from my book "White Property, Black Trespass." (text in alt-text + below)
The poster ($15)
December 5, 2024 at 6:19 PM
The poster ($15)
This week! In person in Nashville and live-streaming to all. Let us know if you’re planning to join in any form: bit.ly/wpbtregister
December 2, 2024 at 2:21 PM
This week! In person in Nashville and live-streaming to all. Let us know if you’re planning to join in any form: bit.ly/wpbtregister
BOOKS + POSTERS created by the author will be available for purchase.
BOOK SIGNING + RECEPTION with light food will begin between 7:30-7:45 p.m.
BOOK SIGNING + RECEPTION with light food will begin between 7:30-7:45 p.m.
November 25, 2024 at 4:20 PM
BOOKS + POSTERS created by the author will be available for purchase.
BOOK SIGNING + RECEPTION with light food will begin between 7:30-7:45 p.m.
BOOK SIGNING + RECEPTION with light food will begin between 7:30-7:45 p.m.
Join me + five Nashvillians committed to a world beyond mass incarceration on December 5, 6-8pm CST (in-person + virtual) for an evening of critical conversation to celebrate the release of my book White Property, Black Trespass: Racial Capitalism and the Religious Function of Mass Criminalization.
November 25, 2024 at 4:20 PM
Join me + five Nashvillians committed to a world beyond mass incarceration on December 5, 6-8pm CST (in-person + virtual) for an evening of critical conversation to celebrate the release of my book White Property, Black Trespass: Racial Capitalism and the Religious Function of Mass Criminalization.
BOOKS + POSTERS created by the author will be available for purchase.
BOOK SIGNING + RECEPTION with light food will begin between 7:30-7:45 p.m.
BOOK SIGNING + RECEPTION with light food will begin between 7:30-7:45 p.m.
November 25, 2024 at 4:12 PM
BOOKS + POSTERS created by the author will be available for purchase.
BOOK SIGNING + RECEPTION with light food will begin between 7:30-7:45 p.m.
BOOK SIGNING + RECEPTION with light food will begin between 7:30-7:45 p.m.
At the General Interest Meeting on 11/21, we will:
- Connect with others organizing to build a Nashville for all of us
- Share about the history and present of our org
- Share about membership opportunities
- Share about our new campaign and opportunities to plug in through political ed + outreach
- Connect with others organizing to build a Nashville for all of us
- Share about the history and present of our org
- Share about membership opportunities
- Share about our new campaign and opportunities to plug in through political ed + outreach
November 18, 2024 at 3:26 PM
At the General Interest Meeting on 11/21, we will:
- Connect with others organizing to build a Nashville for all of us
- Share about the history and present of our org
- Share about membership opportunities
- Share about our new campaign and opportunities to plug in through political ed + outreach
- Connect with others organizing to build a Nashville for all of us
- Share about the history and present of our org
- Share about membership opportunities
- Share about our new campaign and opportunities to plug in through political ed + outreach