Hannah Bowman
@hannahnpbowman.com
Literary agent @ Liza Dawson Associates, prison abolitionist, public theologian
hannahnpbowman.com
christiansforabolition.org
Abolition Ecclesiology: A Spatial Theology for a Church Against Prisons (Fortress, forthcoming in 2026)
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hannahnpbowman.com
christiansforabolition.org
Abolition Ecclesiology: A Spatial Theology for a Church Against Prisons (Fortress, forthcoming in 2026)
She/her
This is absolutely fucking horrific:
I always recommend anything by @laurengill.bsky.social, who really cares about the people she writes about.
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boltsmag.org/death-row-cl...
Death Row Prisoners Granted Clemency by Biden Brace for "Living Hell" Under Trump - Bolts
Trump officials are retaliating by imposing the harshest conditions in the entire federal prison system, including near total isolation.
boltsmag.org
November 24, 2025 at 10:04 PM
This is absolutely fucking horrific:
He’s right and he should say it!
rogue one is bad folks. i have believed this since i saw it in theaters and no subsequent rewatch has changed my mind. basically a chop job until the final sequence, which is good (for star wars)
November 24, 2025 at 9:57 PM
He’s right and he should say it!
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From what I've seen, the best analysis of this definitional game played by DHS is from @prisonpolicy.org. Their report back in July showed that ICE's public detention numbers capture about 2/3 of the actual number of people in ICE custody.
www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/jail...
www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/jail...
November 21, 2025 at 4:18 PM
From what I've seen, the best analysis of this definitional game played by DHS is from @prisonpolicy.org. Their report back in July showed that ICE's public detention numbers capture about 2/3 of the actual number of people in ICE custody.
www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/jail...
www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/jail...
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I’ve been REALLY reticent to use the term “disappear” to refer to people arrested by immigration enforcement, even when there’s now routinely a lag of hours or days before loved ones know where they’re being held.
This is an actual literal disappearance. www.ms.now/msnbc/news/i...
This is an actual literal disappearance. www.ms.now/msnbc/news/i...
A man missing for weeks and the immigration system that lost him
Vicente Ventura Aguilar got picked up last month, but his family doesn’t know if he’s dead or alive. ICE says he’s not in their system, so they say they can’t help.
www.ms.now
November 21, 2025 at 4:13 PM
I’ve been REALLY reticent to use the term “disappear” to refer to people arrested by immigration enforcement, even when there’s now routinely a lag of hours or days before loved ones know where they’re being held.
This is an actual literal disappearance. www.ms.now/msnbc/news/i...
This is an actual literal disappearance. www.ms.now/msnbc/news/i...
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Trans people will be first in the Kingdom of God
November 21, 2025 at 5:52 AM
Trans people will be first in the Kingdom of God
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Concluding tonight by remembering our departed trans siblings on this Transgender Day of Remembrance 🏳️⚧️.
“ Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in Me, though he may die, he shall live.”
“ Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in Me, though he may die, he shall live.”
November 21, 2025 at 5:51 AM
Concluding tonight by remembering our departed trans siblings on this Transgender Day of Remembrance 🏳️⚧️.
“ Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in Me, though he may die, he shall live.”
“ Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in Me, though he may die, he shall live.”
This is an amazing fact
8675309 is prime, and so is 8675311, so if you ever need a middlin'-large pair of adjacent primes to test your cryptographic suite, all you need is a 1980s earworm and a +2 and you're all set.
Man, everything is so bleak, anyone got a fun fact or little bit of trivia they want to share
November 21, 2025 at 4:50 AM
This is an amazing fact
This is because Christianity is generally terrible at differentiating between accountability and punishment, and therefore can't come up with a careful theology of forgiveness/mercy which eschews punishment but nonetheless DEMANDS accountability.
Reconciliation without reparation is one of supremacy's greatest sabotages of the act of repair. Whenever abuse is exposed, it offers free exoneration to the abuser at the expense of the abused, and calls it redemption. It's the traditional and popular response to abuse in our supremacist society.
Leaders of a Minnesota church community didn’t report a parishioner they knew had sexually abused girls for year.
They told his victims that once sins were “washed away in the blood of reconciliation,” they could never speak of them again.
Truly chilling, from @jlussenhop.bsky.social & Andy Mannix
They told his victims that once sins were “washed away in the blood of reconciliation,” they could never speak of them again.
Truly chilling, from @jlussenhop.bsky.social & Andy Mannix
November 20, 2025 at 6:00 PM
This is because Christianity is generally terrible at differentiating between accountability and punishment, and therefore can't come up with a careful theology of forgiveness/mercy which eschews punishment but nonetheless DEMANDS accountability.
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🕯️ today is Trans Day of Remembrance. 🕯️
spend some time with the loved ones we’ve lost.
www.transremembrance.org/in-memoriam
spend some time with the loved ones we’ve lost.
www.transremembrance.org/in-memoriam
In Memoriam — Trans Remembrance Project
www.transremembrance.org
November 20, 2025 at 2:07 PM
🕯️ today is Trans Day of Remembrance. 🕯️
spend some time with the loved ones we’ve lost.
www.transremembrance.org/in-memoriam
spend some time with the loved ones we’ve lost.
www.transremembrance.org/in-memoriam
Or we could just take these people’s money away
this is why I'm not an abolitionist on LWOP sentencing
Exclusive: Suno, an AI music platform in which users can generate songs based on text prompts, has raised $250 million at a valuation of $2.45 billion.
November 19, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Or we could just take these people’s money away
On the contrary: they have found Jesus, but have simply failed to recognize him
November 18, 2025 at 5:19 PM
On the contrary: they have found Jesus, but have simply failed to recognize him
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I’ve checked in with some media pros, and they are unconvinced that an exclusive would be given to such an outlet. The established local press isn’t reporting anything like this. Doesn’t mean it’s not possible but we don’t think it’s accurate. bsky.app/profile/reve...
👋 all y’all passing around the “this week in #worcester” story about ICE escalation during upcoming holidays. We have no confirmation yet that it is accurate. I’ve been trying to verify for the last 5 hrs. The Worcester T&G is not reporting a surge, nor are local activists #CheckYourSources #mapoli
November 18, 2025 at 2:35 AM
I’ve checked in with some media pros, and they are unconvinced that an exclusive would be given to such an outlet. The established local press isn’t reporting anything like this. Doesn’t mean it’s not possible but we don’t think it’s accurate. bsky.app/profile/reve...
I’m deleting because locals say this source may not be credible
November 18, 2025 at 2:33 AM
I’m deleting because locals say this source may not be credible
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BEEP BEEP BEEP WE HAVE A COVER
November 17, 2025 at 9:51 PM
BEEP BEEP BEEP WE HAVE A COVER
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Full warning: this story made me cry, because of how accurately and beautifully it peels back the layers of oppression, self-censorship, exile, community, rebuilding. A beautiful representative from the forthcoming anthology We Will Rise Again, out on Dec 2!
www.simonandschuster.com/books/We-Wil...
www.simonandschuster.com/books/We-Wil...
November 17, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Full warning: this story made me cry, because of how accurately and beautifully it peels back the layers of oppression, self-censorship, exile, community, rebuilding. A beautiful representative from the forthcoming anthology We Will Rise Again, out on Dec 2!
www.simonandschuster.com/books/We-Wil...
www.simonandschuster.com/books/We-Wil...
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Adding to this: the practical program for change toward abolition means building and resourcing lots of different RJ and TJ and accountability programs and efforts and starting to divert toward them, while also pushing incremental decarceration. It’s not all at once but the horizon is freedom.
This is your reminder that we can have accountability without punishment. We can actually change the situations that let powerful men use their power to dominate. We can have compassion and healing rather than meet violence with violence. We can affirm divine judgment without hell. We can, we must.⚓️
November 16, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Adding to this: the practical program for change toward abolition means building and resourcing lots of different RJ and TJ and accountability programs and efforts and starting to divert toward them, while also pushing incremental decarceration. It’s not all at once but the horizon is freedom.
The thing is I’m watching the authoritarian deployment of the carceral state and I’m simultaneously watching people “on my side” calling for us to reclaim shame and punishment. And tbh it’s just really distressing! For me, as a Christian, shame and punishment ARE NOT OPTIONS. Period. ⚓️
November 16, 2025 at 4:38 PM
The thing is I’m watching the authoritarian deployment of the carceral state and I’m simultaneously watching people “on my side” calling for us to reclaim shame and punishment. And tbh it’s just really distressing! For me, as a Christian, shame and punishment ARE NOT OPTIONS. Period. ⚓️
Adding to this: the practical program for change toward abolition means building and resourcing lots of different RJ and TJ and accountability programs and efforts and starting to divert toward them, while also pushing incremental decarceration. It’s not all at once but the horizon is freedom.
This is your reminder that we can have accountability without punishment. We can actually change the situations that let powerful men use their power to dominate. We can have compassion and healing rather than meet violence with violence. We can affirm divine judgment without hell. We can, we must.⚓️
November 16, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Adding to this: the practical program for change toward abolition means building and resourcing lots of different RJ and TJ and accountability programs and efforts and starting to divert toward them, while also pushing incremental decarceration. It’s not all at once but the horizon is freedom.
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Can't help but see this in the context of the appointed Gospel for today:
But before all this occurs, they will arrest you and persecute you; they will hand you over to synagogues and prisons, and you will be brought before kings and governors because of my name.
But before all this occurs, they will arrest you and persecute you; they will hand you over to synagogues and prisons, and you will be brought before kings and governors because of my name.
Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:
November 16, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Can't help but see this in the context of the appointed Gospel for today:
But before all this occurs, they will arrest you and persecute you; they will hand you over to synagogues and prisons, and you will be brought before kings and governors because of my name.
But before all this occurs, they will arrest you and persecute you; they will hand you over to synagogues and prisons, and you will be brought before kings and governors because of my name.
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Alice is the gold standard of what Twitter was when it was great - how you could just find these brilliant, remarkable people with the kind of voices that rarely get platformed or taken seriously, and hear about their lives in their own words without intruding on them or demanding emotional labor
Watching disabled people around the world mourn Alice is a reminder of the good aspect of the internet. 30 years ago, few people outside of SF would ever have known Alice existed. I never would have met her. The internet connected us all. Let’s honor Alice’s memory by using that power and community.
My social media is wall-to-wall love for the incomparable Alice Wong, and I need more words. What captures sadness and/also affection for a community that knows what's been lost?
November 16, 2025 at 5:29 AM
Alice is the gold standard of what Twitter was when it was great - how you could just find these brilliant, remarkable people with the kind of voices that rarely get platformed or taken seriously, and hear about their lives in their own words without intruding on them or demanding emotional labor
This is your reminder that we can have accountability without punishment. We can actually change the situations that let powerful men use their power to dominate. We can have compassion and healing rather than meet violence with violence. We can affirm divine judgment without hell. We can, we must.⚓️
November 15, 2025 at 5:35 PM
This is your reminder that we can have accountability without punishment. We can actually change the situations that let powerful men use their power to dominate. We can have compassion and healing rather than meet violence with violence. We can affirm divine judgment without hell. We can, we must.⚓️
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From this minister's op-ed: "People wanting to experience God are more likely to meet the Divine trying to shut down the Broadview, Illinois, ICE facility than we ever were in church...God does not live in our houses of worship, but...with those who are bearing the brunt of cruelty in this moment."
Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:
November 14, 2025 at 9:38 PM
From this minister's op-ed: "People wanting to experience God are more likely to meet the Divine trying to shut down the Broadview, Illinois, ICE facility than we ever were in church...God does not live in our houses of worship, but...with those who are bearing the brunt of cruelty in this moment."
Radical priest! Radical priest!
damn
Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:
November 14, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Radical priest! Radical priest!
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As I say to everyone who equivocates on church and cathedral entry fees: theology and all that aside, speaking entirely from personal experience, if Durham Cathedral wasn't free to enter, I probably wouldn't be a Christian today.
November 14, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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Priests being arrested
November 14, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Priests being arrested