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Diana Johns

@crimsonchat24.bsky.social

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Twitter refugee @unimelbcrim • prison/post-prison • children/young people + ‘justice’ • relationality • ubuntu • coproduction • @JYPnetwork • @DurhamIAS Fellow • @IncarcerationJ I live, work & play on Bunurong/Boonwurrung & Wurundjeri lands, Kulin Country

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Diana Johns @crimsonchat24.bsky.social · Jan 12

…
To live in this world

you must be able
to do three things:
to love what is mortal;
to hold it

against your bones knowing
your own life depends on it;
and, when the time comes to let it go,
to let it go.

(From In Blackwater Woods by Mary Oliver)

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Diana Johns @crimsonchat24.bsky.social · Mar 3

From Disposable Human @haveachattabs

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Phil Crockett Thomas @philcrockettthomas.bsky.social · Jul 15

New article on utopia, abolition and science fiction published open access @thesociologicalreview.org! If you want to read the creative writing by the project's (brilliant) participants which I discuss in the paper, the eBook is free to download at abolitionscifi.org

The Sociological Review Foundation @thesociologicalreview.org · Jul 15

“Fiction is an important space where activists reckon with the complexity of their hopes about distant futures.”

@philcrockettthomas.bsky.social @stirunicriminology.bsky.social on what science fiction teaches us about the struggle for prison abolition.

#OpenAccess in the journal buff.ly/xw5UXjJ

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Ruairi Dubh @ruairidubh.bsky.social · Apr 6

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Matt Owen @mjowen174.bsky.social · Mar 29

Being self-employed is hard graft at the best of times, and @gailmyerscough.bsky.social is (like many of us) feeling the pinch at the minute. If you like her amazingly brilliant designs please spread the word on here with a RePost, thank you xx 👍👍

Gail Myerscough @gailmyerscough.co.uk · Mar 28

Spring Print Offer!
Get 20% off all individual prints until Monday.
Use code SPRING20 at the checkout
www.gailmyerscough.co.uk/prints

A selection of bold and colourful prints

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Dr Tahaney Alghrani @drtahaneyalghrani.bsky.social · Mar 30

Eid Mubarak to those celebrating today. Praying for peace, happiness and prosperity for all ✨️

#EidMubarak #EidAlFitr

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Diana Johns @crimsonchat24.bsky.social · Mar 19

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The Wheeler Centre @wheelercentre.bsky.social · Mar 19

WINNERS ANNOUNCED: Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards 2025

🏆 Prize for Indigenous Writing: Black Witness, Amy McQuire

Congratulations to Amy McQuire on being awarded the VPLA Prize for Indigenous Writing for the powerful journalistic work ‘Black Witness’. #wheelercentre #vplas

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Truthout @truthout.org · Mar 18

“The Israeli apartheid regime has resumed its genocide, carrying out airstrikes all across Gaza and killing hundreds of Palestinians. This comes after a complete blockade of food, electricity, and aid. They will never stop until there are sanctions and an arms embargo,” Rashida Tlaib warned.

As Israel Bombs Gaza, Tlaib, Sanders Plead: “NO MORE MILITARY AID TO ISRAEL”

“They will never stop until there are sanctions and an arms embargo,” Rep. Rashida Tlaib warned.

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Diana Johns @crimsonchat24.bsky.social · Mar 18

www.crikey.com.au/2025/03/17/v...

The relentless media campaign behind Victoria’s ‘knee-jerk’ bail crackdown

An intense spate of alarmist headlines preceded the Victorian government announcing tough new bail reforms experts say will do 'immeasurable harm' to families and communities.

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Diana Johns @crimsonchat24.bsky.social · Mar 18

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Diana Johns @crimsonchat24.bsky.social · Mar 18

Regarding the bail laws “It feels like this has been packaged up very quickly in response to commercially driven histrionics by media outlets” @denhamsadler piece in @crikey_news

The legislation is a political fix. Nothing more.

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Felix Ralph on X: "Regarding the bail laws “It feels like this has been packaged up very quickly in response to commercially driven histrionics by media outlets” @denhamsadler piece in @crikey_news citing @mdstanton @NeritaWaight @ReintegrationAu and myself. The legislation is a political fix." / X

Regarding the bail laws “It feels like this has been packaged up very quickly in response to commercially driven histrionics by media outlets” @denhamsadler piece in @crikey_news citing @mdstanton @NeritaWaight @ReintegrationAu and myself. The legislation is a political fix.

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Diana Johns @crimsonchat24.bsky.social · Mar 18

“The attempt to turn Zionism into an attribute with protected status is somewhat akin to considering the criticism of China’s colonisation of the nation of Tibet as a type of racial prejudice against Chinese people.”
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Diana Johns @crimsonchat24.bsky.social · Nov 23

We allow #children to be #terrorised by the State on our behalf.

We must confront our complicity in this injustice.

Demand the end of #ChildImprisonment & #YouthDetention #ShutYouthPrisons

#RaiseTheAge Too young to drive = too young to be criminalised

Diana Johns @crimsonchat24.bsky.social · Jul 5

https://indigenousx.com.au/the-nation-does-not-care-about-people-who-become-incarcerated/

The nation does not care about people who become incarcer...

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · Mar 6

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”

Finland ends homelessness and provides shelter for all in need - scoop.me

In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Why? The country applies the "Housing First" concept agains homelessness.

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Diana Johns @crimsonchat24.bsky.social · Mar 3

From Disposable Human @haveachattabs

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Diana Johns @crimsonchat24.bsky.social · Mar 3

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Disposable Human on X: "🧵👇🏽 https://t.co/TwpgKIlFrP" / X

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Diana Johns @crimsonchat24.bsky.social · Mar 3

From the other app, def worth reading, pondering & acting on…
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Disposable Human on X: "Start developing other ways to mediate your conflict so you can stop calling the cops on your friends and family!! There is no way to be a perfect abolitionist. It is a constant process of becoming, but here’s a few tips on how to get underway…things to do and things to stop https://t.co/bHadLJKT2A" / X

Start developing other ways to mediate your conflict so you can stop calling the cops on your friends and family!! There is no way to be a perfect abolitionist. It is a constant process of becoming, but here’s a few tips on how to get underway…things to do and things to stop https://t.co/bHadLJKT2A

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Diana Johns @crimsonchat24.bsky.social · Mar 2

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BBC: Gaza - How to Survive a Warzone

A BBC documentary that the BBC took down shortly after they posted it under threats from the Zionist lobby. Also blocked from YouTube. Reuploaded from here: https://mega.nz/file/YpJngIQR#ElO_TUOUe2lnf

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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · Feb 21

“I’ll tell you what freedom is to me. No fear.” —Nina Simone was born February 21, 1933

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Diana Johns @crimsonchat24.bsky.social · Nov 23

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/26326663221103445#.YpAOhpsKeCA.twitter

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Diana Johns @crimsonchat24.bsky.social · Nov 23

And "the failure to hear, and listen to the voices of others amounts to ‘testimonial oppression’ (Fricker, 2007). I propose that tackling epistemic injustice in confinement necessitates academic partnering with survivors, to coproduce new ways of knowing."

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Diana Johns @crimsonchat24.bsky.social · Nov 23

@IndigoDaya writes: "I bring a lived experience/survivor perspective ...[to] experiences of epistemic confinement, where people's personal truth can be locked up inside the dominance of biogenetic psychiatric narratives which frame distress as ‘mental illness’."

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Diana Johns @crimsonchat24.bsky.social · Feb 13

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Diana Johns @crimsonchat24.bsky.social · May 26

So wonderful to see @IndigoDaya's powerful piece published in @IncarcerationJ: 'Russian dolls and epistemic crypts: A lived experience reflection on epistemic injustice and psychiatric confinement'

You can read it here:...

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Diana Johns @crimsonchat24.bsky.social · Nov 24

And a reassuring call for academics' role to "tell it like it is", to work continuously to expose injustice, "to find the militant middle between riots...and weak and timid supplication for justice", to “be aggressive but nonviolent".

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Diana Johns @crimsonchat24.bsky.social · Nov 24

https://progressive.org/dispatches/martin-luther-kings-creative-maladjustment-resonates-today/#.YDQ1iEcCDqM.twitter

Martin Luther King’s Recently Discovered ‘Creative Maladj...

Seeking perspective on the current chaotic state of U.S. ...

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Diana Johns @crimsonchat24.bsky.social · Nov 23

A nice reminder of #MLK’s call for #CreativeMaladjustment to refuse to normalize inequality: “We must never adjust ourselves to economic conditions that take necessities from the many to give luxuries to the few"...

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