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tamara nopper @tamaranopper.bsky.social · 32m

I’m frequently, and fortunately, reminded that there are many people who don’t wait for permission to start doing the work they wanna do. We just begin.

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tamara nopper @tamaranopper.bsky.social · 46m

I know you don’t like screenshots but I’m so tempted with this one!!!!!

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tamara nopper @tamaranopper.bsky.social · 49m

@prisonculture.bsky.social

Was talking with a law professor I met at this event we were both presenting at and they told me, “I love sociology!” I said that people rarely say that to me and then you popped in my head, lmao.

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tamara nopper @tamaranopper.bsky.social · 4h

And the I’m more authentically doing the work announcements can be their own form of self-congratulations.

Whatever the case, like Octavia E. Butler wrote in her journal, ”Good is only sexy when it’s very powerful, not sanctimonious, and not too good.“

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tamara nopper @tamaranopper.bsky.social · 7h

Creating new habits. Like Octavia E. Butler wrote in her journal, “All good things must begin” and “striving is sexy.”

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tamara nopper @tamaranopper.bsky.social · 7h

@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social I’m up to 40-pound kettlebell swings!

Also, do you ever do the Turkish get-up? And if so, do you use a dumbbell or a kettlebell?

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tamara nopper @tamaranopper.bsky.social · 23h

”Dr. Nopper is able to explain complex data in a way that is accessible to students. She triangulated, and tasked students with triangulating, across multiple data sources. This aspect of the course is what I found most impressive…Her prowess at this is exemplar.”

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tamara nopper @tamaranopper.bsky.social · 1d

Participating in a law school event and learning from other panelists about how the Civil Rights Movement challenged the criminal punishment system and won some major reforms that impact everyone today. Some people already know this history but the narratives and scholarship often ignore it.

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tamara nopper @tamaranopper.bsky.social · 1d

Didn’t have a lot of time for my workout so I figured I’d increase the intensity with a heavier kettlebell swing of 40 pounds. Four months ago I started doing swings with half this weight. I love steady making progress.

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tamara nopper @tamaranopper.bsky.social · 2d

Sometimes your day is so busy that all you can do is 50 push ups. But it’s still a workout.

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tamara nopper @tamaranopper.bsky.social · 2d

And some of the methods of today’s fascism, such as creating lists to circulate/target for harassment, violence, and institutional punishment, were used on Black people for just trying to live or exercise basic rights, for trying to do stuff some leftists today wouldn't find politically interesting.

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tamara nopper @tamaranopper.bsky.social · 2d

I knew you’d like it! Lol.

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tamara nopper @tamaranopper.bsky.social · 2d

@prisonculture.bsky.social Was reading about June Jordan.

“Her mother suggested that they pray for those people. So Jordan prayed, but she also made a zip gun that could send zinging volleys of rubber bands at the culprits.”

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tamara nopper @tamaranopper.bsky.social · 2d

And if you study the history of police training and professionalization, that was often part of an attempt to deflect criticism and protest and to legitimize policing. I know you already know this.

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tamara nopper @tamaranopper.bsky.social · 2d

Toni Morrison said, “That's not an intellectual proposition, a call to be a nicer person."

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tamara nopper @tamaranopper.bsky.social · 2d

The thing that more progressives and leftists could come to terms with is a lot of people inflicting state violence are, literally, just doing their jobs.

Again, abolition is a labor issue.

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tamara nopper @tamaranopper.bsky.social · 2d

The alienation is palpable. Knowing who to be mad at is part of the work.

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Bench Ansfield @benchansfield.bsky.social · 3d

NYC come thru!! I'll be doing two BORN IN FLAMES launch events next week 10/16 and 10/18. Plz spread the word!

(links to follow)

Two posters for the Born in Flames launch.

OCTOBER 16 // 7pm // $7-15
Maysles Documentary Center
Screening of Decade of Fire + Book Panel with organizer and writer Shellyne Rodriguez, director Vivian Vázquez, and Elliot Liu of Take Back the Bronx

OCTOBER 18 // 2:30pm // $15-20
Museum of the City of New York
In Conversation with Ritti Singh (Housing Justice for All and NYS Tenant Bloc) and curator of social activism Sarah Seidman

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Hammer and Hope @hammerandhope.bsky.social · 3d

Capacity is filling up quickly for our 10/13 teach-in on the life and work of Assata Shakur with @dreamhampton.bsky.social and @monifabandele.bsky.social in Bed Stuy, Brooklyn. Become a member today and RSVP at the link below!
We can't wait to see you. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Hammer & Hope Teach-In: The Life and Work of Assata Shakur

Please use this form to RSVP! If you have any questions, contact [email protected]. Location: Gladys Books & Wine | Bed Stuy, 306 Malcolm X Blvd, Brooklyn, NY 11233 Date: Monday, Oct. 13, T...

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Red Emma’s @redemmas.org · 3d

Because certainly there's no reason why this history might be terrifyingly relevant right now, here's a link to preorder @stschrader1.bsky.social's "Blue Power" on how police in the US organized to exempt themselves from democratic oversight and control: redemmas.org/titles/48838...

Blue Power: How Police Organized to Protect and Serve Themselves

Buy from Red Emma's, a worker-owned radical bookstore

redemmas.org

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tamara nopper @tamaranopper.bsky.social · 2d

I’ve been critical of the normalization of the phrase “hate crimes” and its use by social justice folks for several reasons, one being that the framing of something as “hate“ is often used to target minorities and to punish people for challenging structural violence.

Pablo Manríquez @pabloreports.bsky.social · 3d

SCOOP: Apple Quietly Made ICE Agents a Protected Class

Internal emails show tech giant used anti-hate-speech rules meant for minorities to block an app documenting immigration enforcement.
migrantinsider.com/p/scoop-appl...

SCOOP: Apple Quietly Made ICE Agents a Protected Class

Internal emails show tech giant used anti-hate-speech rules meant for minorities to block an app documenting immigration enforcement.

migrantinsider.com

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Maya Schenwar @mayaschenwar.bsky.social · 12d

I'm honored to share the winners of the 5th Keeley Schenwar Memorial Essay Prize, given in memory of my sister. Both essays this year reflect on the stark, inherent violence of prison, and convey a key message for our time: Where there is injustice, there is resistance. truthout.org/articles/ann...

Announcing the Winners of the 5th Annual Keeley Schenwar Memorial Essay Prize

The prize honors the work of incarcerated and formerly incarcerated authors who are writing toward a more just world.

truthout.org

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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 5d

For #BannedBooksWeek, we’re highlighting the unjust censorship of political books which impacts countless incarcerated readers each year.

For every book purchased from this reading list, we will be sending a book to someone who is incarcerated.

Books Are For Everyone: A Banned Books Week Reading List

Banned Books Week—October 5th to 11th—is an annual celebration of the freedom to read, and the aspiration that books should be accessible to all. In recognition of Banned Books Week 2025, Haymarket is...

www.haymarketbooks.org

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tamara nopper @tamaranopper.bsky.social · 3d

Getting more people to call this fascism… I get it. And as more do, what do we do with this increased consciousness?

Thinking of Ruth Wilson Gilmore noting, "At stake is not only how we fight to win, but also how prepared we are for victories. Prepare to win means be ready for the morning after."

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tamara nopper @tamaranopper.bsky.social · 3d

Not about Chicago, but here’s a recent story about a realtor threatening to call ICE.

www.golocalprov.com/news/top-ri-...

GoLocalProv | News | Top RI Realtor Threatens to Call ICE on Buyer, Then Offers $20,000 to Kill GoLocal Story

Kyle Seyboth, a prominent Rhode Island realtor, in a series of text messages, threatened to call United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on a family if they did not agree to conditions...

www.golocalprov.com

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