Anne Kosseff-Jones
@annekosseffjones.bsky.social
Line and copy editor at Radical Care Editing. Abolition and social criticism. Free Palestine. Passionate about making AI/LLM use socially unacceptable. Minneapolis. She/her.
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Well, apparently this practice continues! Today, I was alerted by @empowermentave.bsky.social that PEN's Incarcerated Writers Bureau finally launched. The original idea behind the program was to create a pathway for incarcerated writers to publish more regularly with esteemed publications.
November 25, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Well, apparently this practice continues! Today, I was alerted by @empowermentave.bsky.social that PEN's Incarcerated Writers Bureau finally launched. The original idea behind the program was to create a pathway for incarcerated writers to publish more regularly with esteemed publications.
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Formerly incarcerated writer Alex Tretbar first blew the whistle on the esteemed literary organization when he revealed in this op-ed co-written with journalist Natalye Childress that PEN failed to pay incarcerated writers awarded writing prizes:
Why isn’t PEN America paying its incarcerated prize winners?
Recent winners of PEN America’s Prison Writing Awards are missing a total of $925 in payments—a small fortune in prison
prismreports.org
November 25, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Formerly incarcerated writer Alex Tretbar first blew the whistle on the esteemed literary organization when he revealed in this op-ed co-written with journalist Natalye Childress that PEN failed to pay incarcerated writers awarded writing prizes:
Not sure exactly what my point is; maybe just that it's both important to spread best practices and never going to be orderly or straightforward?
November 25, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Not sure exactly what my point is; maybe just that it's both important to spread best practices and never going to be orderly or straightforward?
I 100% agree about resharing. And, the Monarca training is *excellent* but nothing really trains people for these situations. Even when only trained observers show up, it's going to be a messy, pluralistic situation because not everyone is going to feel morally OK with the restrictions of that role.
November 25, 2025 at 7:39 PM
I 100% agree about resharing. And, the Monarca training is *excellent* but nothing really trains people for these situations. Even when only trained observers show up, it's going to be a messy, pluralistic situation because not everyone is going to feel morally OK with the restrictions of that role.
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This leads me to say something really controversial. Reconnecting Natives should reconnect with their relatives and their Native Nation BEFORE they use that reconnection as a platform, otherwise they are pouring from an empty cup.
November 25, 2025 at 6:49 PM
This leads me to say something really controversial. Reconnecting Natives should reconnect with their relatives and their Native Nation BEFORE they use that reconnection as a platform, otherwise they are pouring from an empty cup.
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One of these guys is now going to be an SRO in a school. Imagine being a Latino kid finding out the guy who walks around your school with a gun got fired from his last job for joking about a mass shooting of people who look like you.
November 25, 2025 at 1:46 PM
One of these guys is now going to be an SRO in a school. Imagine being a Latino kid finding out the guy who walks around your school with a gun got fired from his last job for joking about a mass shooting of people who look like you.
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Elder millennials watching yet another speculative industry get “too big to fail”
a man standing in front of a car that says netflix
ALT: a man standing in front of a car that says netflix
media.tenor.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Elder millennials watching yet another speculative industry get “too big to fail”