Victoria Law
@victorialaw.bsky.social
Freelance journalist & author. Latest book: CORRIDORS OF CONTAGION: How the Pandemic Exposed the Cruelties of Incarceration (Haymarket, 2024). https://linktr.ee/victorialaw
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Victoria Law
@victorialaw.bsky.social
· Nov 15
Welcome new (and not-so-new) followers. I’m an author & freelance journalist focusing on incarceration, particularly women’s incarceration. My latest book, CORRIDORS OF CONTAGION, examines the Covid-19 pandemic behind bars—and the continuing fallout of prisons’ punitive responses.
NYC: Reminder that my last 2025 event is this Saturday in support of an incarcerated survivor’s book launch:
The second is the NYC book launch for SUBMERGED, the memoir of Sheena King. Sheena is an incarcerated survivor serving LWOP. I’m honored to have written the intro & to be part of her NYC launch.
Sat, 12/13, 2-4 pm
Maysles Documentary Center, 343 Lenox Ave, Harlem
Sat, 12/13, 2-4 pm
Maysles Documentary Center, 343 Lenox Ave, Harlem
December 7, 2025 at 11:30 PM
NYC: Reminder that my last 2025 event is this Saturday in support of an incarcerated survivor’s book launch:
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yes.
I'm starting to wonder how much "the male loneliness epidemic" is just straight and bisexual women identifying low-effort, mean, and incompetent men and choosing not to date, marry, and tolerate them anymore
December 7, 2025 at 7:43 PM
yes.
The one-year anniversary of my partner’s death is coming up. Woman incarcerated in PA sent me this card, writing, “Keep your head up & your heart open. Times of change are hard when you don’t have everyone you’d like around you but there is still joy. Holidays past are not gone…Stay hopeful.”
December 7, 2025 at 3:15 PM
The one-year anniversary of my partner’s death is coming up. Woman incarcerated in PA sent me this card, writing, “Keep your head up & your heart open. Times of change are hard when you don’t have everyone you’d like around you but there is still joy. Holidays past are not gone…Stay hopeful.”
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Anywho, it's valuable to read deeply about Montgomery if you are organizing today. Start with @jeannetheoharis.bsky.social's The Rebellious Life of Rosa Parks - www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/221039... - the book also has a young reader's edition.
The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks (10th Anniversary Edition) by Jeanne Theoharis: 9780807020616 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
“Jeanne’s book not only inspired the documentary but has been a catalyst in changing our national understanding of Rosa Parks. Highly recommend!” —Soledad O’Brien, executive...
www.penguinrandomhouse.com
December 7, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Anywho, it's valuable to read deeply about Montgomery if you are organizing today. Start with @jeannetheoharis.bsky.social's The Rebellious Life of Rosa Parks - www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/221039... - the book also has a young reader's edition.
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The movement didn't magically happen. Connections & ideas had built. The Women's Political Council had been organizing; the night Parks was arrested they decided to call for a 1-day boycott Monday. WPC leader Robinson ran off 35,000 leaflets ; they distributed them through town.
December 7, 2025 at 1:51 PM
The movement didn't magically happen. Connections & ideas had built. The Women's Political Council had been organizing; the night Parks was arrested they decided to call for a 1-day boycott Monday. WPC leader Robinson ran off 35,000 leaflets ; they distributed them through town.
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Like @prisonculture.bsky.social, I've been worried about the ways popular myths of the civil rights movement make it hard to see how to struggle today. On the 70th anniversary of the Montgomery bus boycott, the things we get wrong & what a fuller history shows us: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
What we get wrong about the Montgomery bus boycott – and what we can learn from it | Jeanne Theoharis
The movement’s success was never a given. It took much longer and required tremendous sacrifice without certainty it would work
www.theguardian.com
December 7, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Like @prisonculture.bsky.social, I've been worried about the ways popular myths of the civil rights movement make it hard to see how to struggle today. On the 70th anniversary of the Montgomery bus boycott, the things we get wrong & what a fuller history shows us: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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December 6, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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New edition from Pete Railand! "A Woody Guthrie quote for our times. Perfect for a public facing window or take it out on the town for a march.
4 color screen print from hand-cut rubylith film."
Find it in our shop! justseeds.org/product/all-...
4 color screen print from hand-cut rubylith film."
Find it in our shop! justseeds.org/product/all-...
December 6, 2025 at 9:21 PM
New edition from Pete Railand! "A Woody Guthrie quote for our times. Perfect for a public facing window or take it out on the town for a march.
4 color screen print from hand-cut rubylith film."
Find it in our shop! justseeds.org/product/all-...
4 color screen print from hand-cut rubylith film."
Find it in our shop! justseeds.org/product/all-...
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December 3, 2025 at 6:20 PM
You can help Bolts continue to provide crucial coverage of local elections. Here's how:
- Repost this = I donate $1.
- Follow @boltsmag.org = I donate $1.
- Donate (link below) + tell me how much = I match your donation.
(Donate monthly = I match a year's worth)
- Repost this = I donate $1.
- Follow @boltsmag.org = I donate $1.
- Donate (link below) + tell me how much = I match your donation.
(Donate monthly = I match a year's worth)
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Anna May Wong — Edward S. Curtis, c. 1925
December 5, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Anna May Wong — Edward S. Curtis, c. 1925
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ICE just released new detention statistics.
As of November 30, 2025, ICE was detaining 65,735 people across the United States.
www.ice.gov/detain/deten...
As of November 30, 2025, ICE was detaining 65,735 people across the United States.
www.ice.gov/detain/deten...
Detention Management
www.ice.gov
December 5, 2025 at 7:33 PM
ICE just released new detention statistics.
As of November 30, 2025, ICE was detaining 65,735 people across the United States.
www.ice.gov/detain/deten...
As of November 30, 2025, ICE was detaining 65,735 people across the United States.
www.ice.gov/detain/deten...
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if you’re in Philadelphia and are in need of any help building, growing, harvesting, lifting, or moving anything, please let me know!!
December 5, 2025 at 9:47 PM
if you’re in Philadelphia and are in need of any help building, growing, harvesting, lifting, or moving anything, please let me know!!
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I don't think people realize how rent control was
absolutely ESSENTIAL
to NYC art and the artistic community, especially in Manhattan
And still is
absolutely ESSENTIAL
to NYC art and the artistic community, especially in Manhattan
And still is
December 6, 2025 at 12:28 AM
I don't think people realize how rent control was
absolutely ESSENTIAL
to NYC art and the artistic community, especially in Manhattan
And still is
absolutely ESSENTIAL
to NYC art and the artistic community, especially in Manhattan
And still is
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"Their rent-controlled apartment on Manhattan’s Upper East Side functioned as a fine-art storage locker as well as an exhibition space. Stacked on the floor and crammed into closets were some 4,000 works..."
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/a...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/a...
Dorothy Vogel, Librarian With a Vast Art Collection, Dies at 90
www.nytimes.com
December 6, 2025 at 12:02 AM
"Their rent-controlled apartment on Manhattan’s Upper East Side functioned as a fine-art storage locker as well as an exhibition space. Stacked on the floor and crammed into closets were some 4,000 works..."
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/a...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/a...
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A window into our budget: Our default rate for an article by a freelancer is $800.
Our follower count has increased by roughly 200 since @russ41.bsky.social made that offer... I wonder if we can grow it by another 600 followers for this offer to fund one article!
Our follower count has increased by roughly 200 since @russ41.bsky.social made that offer... I wonder if we can grow it by another 600 followers for this offer to fund one article!
December 6, 2025 at 12:09 AM
A window into our budget: Our default rate for an article by a freelancer is $800.
Our follower count has increased by roughly 200 since @russ41.bsky.social made that offer... I wonder if we can grow it by another 600 followers for this offer to fund one article!
Our follower count has increased by roughly 200 since @russ41.bsky.social made that offer... I wonder if we can grow it by another 600 followers for this offer to fund one article!
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I'm not exaggerating when I say following @boltsmag.org rn will unlock money for our journalism.
A generous reader, @russ41.bsky.social, has offered to donate $1 for every 1-person increase to our follower count.
If you're not following @boltsmag.org yet, it'll directly help fund our reporting!
A generous reader, @russ41.bsky.social, has offered to donate $1 for every 1-person increase to our follower count.
If you're not following @boltsmag.org yet, it'll directly help fund our reporting!
December 6, 2025 at 12:07 AM
I'm not exaggerating when I say following @boltsmag.org rn will unlock money for our journalism.
A generous reader, @russ41.bsky.social, has offered to donate $1 for every 1-person increase to our follower count.
If you're not following @boltsmag.org yet, it'll directly help fund our reporting!
A generous reader, @russ41.bsky.social, has offered to donate $1 for every 1-person increase to our follower count.
If you're not following @boltsmag.org yet, it'll directly help fund our reporting!
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Hey all,
The Onion is accepting applicants for our writing, video and graphics fellowships.
Fellowships last six months, pay well, and provide full benefits.
You can apply at theonion.com/fellowship.
The Onion is accepting applicants for our writing, video and graphics fellowships.
Fellowships last six months, pay well, and provide full benefits.
You can apply at theonion.com/fellowship.
Fellowship
theonion.com
December 3, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Hey all,
The Onion is accepting applicants for our writing, video and graphics fellowships.
Fellowships last six months, pay well, and provide full benefits.
You can apply at theonion.com/fellowship.
The Onion is accepting applicants for our writing, video and graphics fellowships.
Fellowships last six months, pay well, and provide full benefits.
You can apply at theonion.com/fellowship.
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There are so many good pieces of writing in the world that I will literally never be able to consume them all in my lifetime. Why would I waste my life-hours hate-reading?
December 3, 2025 at 5:59 PM
There are so many good pieces of writing in the world that I will literally never be able to consume them all in my lifetime. Why would I waste my life-hours hate-reading?
Reserving this from my local library!
Thank you for this. In "Book and Dagger," now in paperback, historian Elyse Grahm writes the largely untold but riveting story of how scholars, librarians, and "oddball archivists" were mobilized to defeat fascism in WWII: "The war may have been fought on battlefields, but it was won in libraries."
December 3, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Reserving this from my local library!
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Guess who's coming home?! After over 15 years inside, I will be released in early February and look forward to being with my family and friends. I accomplished more than I could have dreamed while imprisoned. Imagine what I'll do when I'm free.
December 2, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Guess who's coming home?! After over 15 years inside, I will be released in early February and look forward to being with my family and friends. I accomplished more than I could have dreamed while imprisoned. Imagine what I'll do when I'm free.
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“This is an immediate crisis of LGBTQ employment.” I talked to THE Amy Goodman abt Afeef & my @theintercept.com series. Proud I was reporting internationally on TV for the 1st time, conducted an on-camera interview & shot all the video & photos for the segment www.democracynow.org/2025/12/2/st...
December 2, 2025 at 6:47 PM
“This is an immediate crisis of LGBTQ employment.” I talked to THE Amy Goodman abt Afeef & my @theintercept.com series. Proud I was reporting internationally on TV for the 1st time, conducted an on-camera interview & shot all the video & photos for the segment www.democracynow.org/2025/12/2/st...
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We are grateful to @anarchistagency.bsky.social for keeping Jen Angel's legacy alive through this grant program supporting anarchist media projects.
If you—like Jen—are dedicated to anarchist media work, applications are open now for 2026.
crimethinc.com/jenangel
If you—like Jen—are dedicated to anarchist media work, applications are open now for 2026.
crimethinc.com/jenangel
🏴 Submissions for both the Anarchist Horizons and Jen Angel Anarchist Media grants are now open!🏴Agency is proud to work in collaboration with @anarchist-studies.bsky.social on this grant program. More info: anarchistagency.com/jen-angel-an...
December 2, 2025 at 9:14 AM
We are grateful to @anarchistagency.bsky.social for keeping Jen Angel's legacy alive through this grant program supporting anarchist media projects.
If you—like Jen—are dedicated to anarchist media work, applications are open now for 2026.
crimethinc.com/jenangel
If you—like Jen—are dedicated to anarchist media work, applications are open now for 2026.
crimethinc.com/jenangel
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"Eligible to New York City-based artists with children under the age of three, awardees will receive a grant for $25,000 to be used for childcare expenses with the provider of their choice." www.artistsandmothers.org/grant - Applications due by Jan 2.
Grant — Artists and Mothers
www.artistsandmothers.org
December 1, 2025 at 7:41 PM
"Eligible to New York City-based artists with children under the age of three, awardees will receive a grant for $25,000 to be used for childcare expenses with the provider of their choice." www.artistsandmothers.org/grant - Applications due by Jan 2.
Today (12/1), I finally received two e-messages that person in prison sent me on 11/15.
December 2, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Today (12/1), I finally received two e-messages that person in prison sent me on 11/15.