Michael Gibson-Light
@mgibsonlight.bsky.social
💭 Prison labor scholar, sociologist, game designer
📕 Orange-Collar Labor from Oxford Uni. Press
🃏 Dead Theorists from Microcosm Publishing
📕 Orange-Collar Labor from Oxford Uni. Press
🃏 Dead Theorists from Microcosm Publishing
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160 years ago, the 13th Amendment was ratified, ending slavery. But that amendment came with a sinister loophole: a Slavery Clause that allowed for slavery “as punishment for crime.”
We need to pass @repnikema.bsky.social’s and my Abolition Amendment to #EndTheException once and for all!
We need to pass @repnikema.bsky.social’s and my Abolition Amendment to #EndTheException once and for all!
December 6, 2025 at 10:07 PM
160 years ago, the 13th Amendment was ratified, ending slavery. But that amendment came with a sinister loophole: a Slavery Clause that allowed for slavery “as punishment for crime.”
We need to pass @repnikema.bsky.social’s and my Abolition Amendment to #EndTheException once and for all!
We need to pass @repnikema.bsky.social’s and my Abolition Amendment to #EndTheException once and for all!
Hey, I did a podcast interview with the Baldy Center for Law & Social Policy @ubuffalo.bsky.social. You can check it out here if you want to hear about attempts to unionize working prisoners in the US in the 1970s.
www.buffalo.edu/baldycenter/...
www.buffalo.edu/baldycenter/...
Michael Gibson-Light discusses prison labor, prisoners’ unions, and the politics of work behind bars
In Episode 51 of The Baldy Center Podcast Michael Gibson-Light discusses his research on the 1970s prison labor movement in the United States. He details how incarcerated workers organized throug...
www.buffalo.edu
December 4, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Hey, I did a podcast interview with the Baldy Center for Law & Social Policy @ubuffalo.bsky.social. You can check it out here if you want to hear about attempts to unionize working prisoners in the US in the 1970s.
www.buffalo.edu/baldycenter/...
www.buffalo.edu/baldycenter/...
If you're lookin for a lil holiday gift for someone, I've got some copies of Dead Theorists remaining that I wouldn't mind placing in a loving home. It's a card game I designed and illustrated.
deadtheory.bigcartel.com
deadtheory.bigcartel.com
November 29, 2025 at 5:21 PM
If you're lookin for a lil holiday gift for someone, I've got some copies of Dead Theorists remaining that I wouldn't mind placing in a loving home. It's a card game I designed and illustrated.
deadtheory.bigcartel.com
deadtheory.bigcartel.com
First post, gotta make it count. Here, admire the boy.
January 24, 2025 at 9:13 PM
First post, gotta make it count. Here, admire the boy.