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Emile Suotonye DeWeaver @emilesdeweaver.bsky.social · 8d

NEW YORK BOOK LAUNCH:

October 16 @ 6pm

Ghost Criminal Justice Machine: Reform, White Supremacy, and an Abolitionist Future, Emile Suotonye DeWeaver in conversation with NYU Associate Researcher, Itzel Corona Aguilar.

RSVP TODAY: steinhardt.nyu.edu/events/book-...

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Book Launch | Ghost in the Criminal Justice Machine

Join Emile DeWeaver, author of Ghost in the Criminal Justice Machine: Reform, White Supremacy, and an Abolitionist Future, in conversation with NYU Associate Researcher, Itzel Corona Aguilar.

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Under the Tree w/Bill Ayers - A Seminar on Freedom @underthetreepod.bsky.social · Aug 29

NEW EPISODE!
Ep 136: The Ghost of White Supremacy with @emilesdeweaver.bsky.social
We’re joined by the activist, organizer, and writer Emile Suotonye DeWeaver, author most recently of Ghost in the Criminal Justice Machine: Reform, White Supremacy, and an Abolitionist Future.
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Emile Suotonye DeWeaver @emilesdeweaver.bsky.social · Jul 14

Santa Cruz Book Launch: Ghost in the Criminal Justice Machine | Jul 18, 2025, 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM @ucscartsdivision.bsky.social Santa Cruz, 100 Panetta Ave

RSVP: www.reframeconsults.com/event-detail...

Santa Cruz Book Launch: Ghost in the Criminal Justice Machine | re:frame consulting

Join us on Friday, July 18 for a book talk and signing with author Emile Suotonye DeWeaver to celebrate the release of his first book titled Ghost in the Criminal Justice Machine: Reform, White Suprem...

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Emile Suotonye DeWeaver @emilesdeweaver.bsky.social · Jun 11

Chicago! June 24: launch of Ghost in the Criminal Justice Machine: Reform, White Supremacy, and an Abolitionist Future @thenewpress.bsky.social at @haymarkethouse.bsky.social . Emile Suotonye DeWeaver in conversation with longtime abolitionist organizer and author @mayaschenwar.bsky.social.

RSVP:

Ghost in the Criminal Justice Machine: Emile Suotonye DeWeaver in conversation with Maya Schenwar | re:frame consulting

Join us for a celebration of Emile Suotonye DeWeaver's inaugural book, Ghost in the Criminal Justice Machine: Reform, White Supremacy, and an Abolitionist Future at Haymarket House. Emile will be in c...

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Emile Suotonye DeWeaver @emilesdeweaver.bsky.social · Jun 11

Thank you, Quentin Hardy, for coming to the launch of Ghost in the Criminal Justice Machine in Oakland and featuring it in your newsletter.

Read the full article: thenewcuriosityshop.substack.com/p/fix-your-i...

Fix Your Imagination, Fix The World

True first steps to changing the world.

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Emile Suotonye DeWeaver @emilesdeweaver.bsky.social · May 28

The Bay Area Book Fest is this weekend! Catch me on Sunday, June 1: Ghosts of Justice: Exposing the Failures and Reimagining the Future of the American Legal System

Emile Suotonye DeWeaver, Dorsey E. Nunn, Gianna Toboni

Moderator: Piper Kerman

More Info: www.reframeconsults.com/event-detail...

Ghosts of Justice: Exposing the Failures and Reimagining the Future of the American Legal System | re:frame consulting

Bay Area Book Fest panel. Emile Suotonye DeWeaver, Dorsey E. Nunn, Gianna Toboni, moderator: Piper Kerman. https://www.baybookfest.org/session/ghosts-of-justice-exposing-the-failures-and-reimagining-t...

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Emile Suotonye DeWeaver @emilesdeweaver.bsky.social · May 22

Bay Area: Emile Suotonye DeWeaver on tour

🔸June 1: Bay Area Book Fest with Dorsey E. Nunn, Gianna Toboni, moderated by Piper Kerman

🔸June 3: at Clio’s Books with James King from the Ella Baker Center

🔸June 4: Meet the Authors: in conversation with Lenore Anderson

🔸June 20: UC Santa Cruz

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Emile Suotonye DeWeaver @emilesdeweaver.bsky.social · May 22

Bay Area: Emile Suotonye DeWeaver on tour.

Ghost in the Criminal Justice Machine: Reform, White Supremacy, and an Abolitionist Future @thenewpress.bsky.social

RSVP: www.reframeconsults.com/events

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uncommonlaw.bsky.social @uncommonlaw.bsky.social · May 14

After 21 years of incarceration, former client @emilesdeweaver.bsky.social found healing through writing. Now an award-winning writer and activist, with a new book launch and a tour ahead: www.reframeconsults.com/events
We’re honored to witness his journey, transformation, and growth.

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Emile Suotonye DeWeaver @emilesdeweaver.bsky.social · May 14

Thank you for sharing an excerpt of Ghost in the Criminal Justice Machine, @truthout.org 🙏🏿

Truthout @truthout.org · May 13

"I’d had a love-hate relationship with my own father, so I knew my child couldn’t be ashamed of me without also being ashamed of themself. My kid hadn’t been alive one month, and I felt like I’d already killed them. My heart breaking, I curled up on my bunk. I had to get out of prison."

“I’m Going to Write My Way Out of Prison”: A Vision From Solitary Confinement

Living behind bars, I realized abolition requires refusing to conflate what is easily imaginable with what is possible.

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Harms Committed @harmscommitted.com · May 14

For more from Emile Suotonye DeWeaver: @emilesdeweaver.bsky.social thenewpress.org/books/ghost-...
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Harms Committed @harmscommitted.com · May 14

"Mine was one of many lives the state had condemned to end slowly."

"[W]hat can we do if all the characteristics we've experienced in contemporary society are white supremacist characteristics? Can we imagine the unimaginable? In a word, yes."
#USA #Incarceration

“I’m Going to Write My Way Out of Prison”: A Vision From Solitary Confinement

Living behind bars, I realized abolition requires refusing to conflate what is easily imaginable with what is possible.

truthout.org

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Emile Suotonye DeWeaver @emilesdeweaver.bsky.social · May 13

Order it here: www.reframeconsults.com/ghostinthecr...

Ghost in the Criminal Justice Machine | re:frame consulting

Ghost in the Criminal Justice Machine: Reform, White Supremacy, and an Abolitionist Future a book by writer Emile Suotonye DeWeaver Published by The New Press

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Emile Suotonye DeWeaver @emilesdeweaver.bsky.social · May 13

I hope to see you on the tour for Ghost in the Criminal Justice Machine: Confirmed dates in Oakland, San Francisco, Santa Cruz and Chicago: www.reframeconsults.com/events - please RSVP!

Events | Emile Soutonye DeWeaver

Emile Soutonye DeWeaver book launch Ghost in the Criminal Justice Machine. Interviews, events.

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Emile Suotonye DeWeaver @emilesdeweaver.bsky.social · May 13

I felt like I didn’t have the best language to have this conversation. I dedicated the next years to thinking this through.

Ghost in the Criminal Justice System is an offering of frameworks to be shared with your communities so we can have these conversations, so we can come up with solutions.

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Emile Suotonye DeWeaver @emilesdeweaver.bsky.social · May 13

I wrote this book for many reasons. I’d been organizing for a decade in prison, and I witnessed the ways we in justice work have beautiful, courageous intentions and yet we often exacerbate the problems we fight against.

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Emile Suotonye DeWeaver @emilesdeweaver.bsky.social · May 13

It’s publication day for Ghost in the Criminal Justice Machine: Reform, White Supremacy, and an Abolitionist Future by Emile Suotonye DeWeaver, my debut, out with The New Press @thenewpress.bsky.social.

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Emile Suotonye DeWeaver @emilesdeweaver.bsky.social · May 13

Drawing on his lived experience and years of organizing from inside, DeWeaver challenges the assumptions behind rehabilitation and reform, and imagines a path toward true abolition.

On sale now-save 30% with code TNP30 at checkout through this link: thenewpress.org/books/ghost-...

Ghost in the Criminal Justice Machine - The New Press

A powerful personal investigation of the insidious ways white supremacy compromises criminal justice reform, from the award-winning, formerly incarcerated activist and Soros Justice Fellow Despite re...

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Emile Suotonye DeWeaver @emilesdeweaver.bsky.social · May 13

From @thenewpress.bsky.social:

After 21 years in prison,
Emile Suotonye DeWeaver wrote GHOST IN THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE MACHINE—a bold and deeply personal examination of how white supremacy distorts criminal justice reform.

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Emile Suotonye DeWeaver @emilesdeweaver.bsky.social · May 7

Ghost in the Criminal Justice Machine: Reform, White Supremacy, and an Abolitionist Future (The New Press) comes out in a week and I will be on tour. More info and RSVP:

www.reframeconsults.com/events

Emile Suotonye DeWeaver @emilesdeweaver.bsky.social · May 2

Oakland book launch for Ghost in the Criminal Justice Machine (The New Press) by Emile Suotonye DeWeaver in conversation with Nayomi Munaweera at Understory.

May 17, 5:00-7:00 pm

Oakland: Book launch in conversation with Nayomi Munaweera at Understory | re:frame consulting

Ghost in the Criminal Justice Machine launch in conversation with the amazing Nayomi Munaweera

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Emile Suotonye DeWeaver @emilesdeweaver.bsky.social · Apr 29

“Despite reform efforts that have grown in scope and intensity over the last two decades, the machine of American mass incarceration continues to flourish.” search.app/jQDa4boeCM5h...

Cat Brooks interviews Emile Suotonye DeWeaver about Ghost in the Criminal Justice Machine.

Reform, White Supremacy, and an Abolitionist Future; Plus Resistance in Residence Artist Colette Ghunim | KPFA

Despite reform efforts that have grown in scope and intensity over the last two decades, the machine of American mass incarceration continues to flourish. In this hour, we’re joined by formerly incarc...

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Emile Suotonye DeWeaver @emilesdeweaver.bsky.social · Apr 28

Thank you to Leon Garber and Alen Ulman from Seize the Moment Podcast for a great conversation.

Emile Suotonye DeWeaver - The Near Enemy of Justice: Dismantling Mass Incarceration | STM #238

www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3qE...

Emile Suotonye DeWeaver - The Near Enemy of Justice: Dismantling Mass Incarceration | STM #238

YouTube video by Seize the Moment Podcast

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Emile Suotonye DeWeaver @emilesdeweaver.bsky.social · Apr 26

It’s independent bookstore day. Celebrate by supporting your local bookstore pre-ordering Ghost in the Criminal Justice Machine, or online, go to Bookshop.org Free shipping! bookshop.org/p/books/note...

Ghost in the Criminal Justice Machine: Reform, White Supremacy, and an Abolitionist Future

Reform, White Supremacy, and an Abolitionist Future

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Emile Suotonye DeWeaver @emilesdeweaver.bsky.social · Apr 12

It's a pre-order party for Ghost in the Criminal Justice Machine: Reform, White Supremacy, and an Abolitionist Future and for Samiya Bashir's I Hope This Helps, emceed by Raychelle Heath!

It's the first official look at my forthcoming collection of essays.