Sorry, I’ve been absent on this app. I’m going to come back to focusing here more.

Only 13 hours left if you want to enter our Goodreads giveaway to win one of 100 e-copies of Cry, Voidbringer by Elaine Ho. It doesn’t cost anything to enter.

You’ll often hear that Arizona has dry heat. Dry Heat just means the sun skips the humidity and punches you directly in the face and then you melt within 3 minutes.

The way that some leftists talk down to Black people (like we haven't been the center of most progressive movements) in this country is weird.

Saturday morning reading - book quote edition. — A Little Life: A Novel by Hanya Yanagihara, page 129

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Same It’s why I use Black, Indigenous, People of Color instead of BIPOC - or even better not grouping even nonwhite together as a monolith. DEI is another great example.

If you’re trying to learn more about history not covered in schools I highly recommend Black Birds in the Sky by Brandy Colbert.

Starting chapter 18 tonight…this book has a hold on me. I’m reading it far slower than normal and I’m triple thinking about ever damn sentences. Someday I hope this is required reading for a class.

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“We know that if we do not learn from the past, it is destined to repeat itself. But what I want us to really sit with is the fact that we can avoid more than just history's worst moments. We can avoid it all. We can put our foot down right here at the beginning and refuse to comply with any of it.”

I can’t remember where I read this, but it’s important: Why is it that when people think about traveling to the past, they worry about doing something small that will drastically change the present, but no one in the present thinks that doing something small today can drastically change the future?

Suspect this is the early frontrunner for all the genre awards in 2026 www.theguardian.com/books/2025/f...

I wrote LEGACY: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine 👩🏾‍⚕️🩺 for my younger self so it was absolute honor to be selected by publisher @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social to deliver a keynote about my book to hundreds of higher education professionals at the First Year Experience Conference!

The thing about Mina that I love is that she sweet and kind and the type of librarian that will always go that extra mile to get you that book. But she is also a bisexual fem-dom and she will get you all together right quick. Also, she will shoot you dead if you cross her.

My favorite book of 2024 is out in paperback TODAY!! I have more I want to say about this book so I’m creating a thread about how I even found this story and what it means to me. @penguinbooksusa.bsky.social #booksky #blackbooksky #bookreccomendations

hey for anyone who might want to actually own their kindle books instead of renting them, or who might be thinking of switching to kobo etc and will want to convert them to epubs, you now only have one week before amazon kills your ability to download its ebooks www.theverge.com/news/612898/...

Same.

Currently reading: The First Family By Granger Book Two of the Drew Collins series #booksky

It’s Valentine’s Day, so go buy some Native romance. #booksky

I said we don’t have enough Indigenous romance and people are recommending Nikki Payne’s Sex Lies and Sensibility and Kennedy Ryan’s The Kingmaker. Someone else had the audacity to say Twilight. An Indigenous romance is a book WRITTEN by an Indigenous author WITH Indigenous characters.

Day 15 of letting you know that I run a small publishing imprint that’s working to create access for marginalized authors. And we need your help to reach our goals. Please consider subscribing to our publishing community for $5 or $12. Help us make a difference. Leftunreadbooks.binderybooks.com

We "win" by challenging hegemonic narratives, not by imitating them.

New Youtube video is out! This one gets pretty personal, has a couple book reviews, and is full of tangents! So if that's your thing, enjoy! youtu.be/SGhX9B6kKG4

I just noticed that Cry, Voidbringer is at a slight discount right now, so if you want to Pre-Order, might as well save a dollar! This is our Anarchist dark-fantasy coming out later this year. This book helped me wrestle with a lot of my thoughts about the world. bookshop.org/a/87137/9781...

💕🌹📚It’s Valentine’s Day 🌹💕📚 and the perfect day to highlight queer romance books. Fall Into You (A Season For Love Book 1) And More to Love Both by @ingloriousgigi.bsky.social #Booksky

Do you: - Love reading? - Prefer Black & brown books and music? - Need a safe space where SJM won’t find you? Come hang in our community discord: discord.gg/sTBDeAYhua

💕🌹Valentine’s Day 💕🌹 Book Haul A Little Life and To Paradise by Hanya Yanagihara And Legendborn Special Edition Paperback by @tracydeonn.bsky.social

Currently Reading: The Secret World of Maggie Grey By Granger #booksky

Kendrick Lamar managed to piss off all the right people. Well done.

We are halfway to our goal!!! Thank you for everyone’s help! gofund.me/c37ed499

Thou shalt not spend millions on Super Bowl ads about Jesus when you could’ve used it to feed the hungry.

"The halftime show was boring." Look, you may not be familiar with the genius of Kendrick Lamar and couldn't quite hear the lyrics and don't know the backstory and the symbolism went over your head, but trust me when I say you'll want to read an analysis of it and rewatch. A true masterpiece.

That halftime performance last night is really messing with some people's thoughts today --just because you don't understand cultural symbolism doesn't mean it was a bad or some inserted conspiracy. Too many "hot takes" about it this morning are steeped in antiBlackness. Stop it.

Now -ignoring that I have to work in the morning - currently reading The Raybearer By Jordan Ifueko #Booksky

What people don’t realize is that you don’t HAVE to watch that thing, you can just read.

Currently reading; An Academy For Liers By Alexis Henderson #Booksky

What if I told you I’m going to announce two new giveaways in my book club this week? Including two copies of Little Rot, in partnership with @riverheadbooks.bsky.social And three special editions of Inferno’s Heir, in partnership with @binderybooks.bsky.social?🤫 Leftunreadbooks.binderybooks.com

Diversity is a fact: All kinds of people exist. Equity is a goal: All kinds of people deserve a chance at success. Inclusion is how we get to equity. By including them, they can achieve success. It's that simple.

#booksky #diversebooks They tried to get mad when I said NO TRUMP voters in my reader community. Well, I’ve got more rules, too. If these sound good to you, you’re welcome to join: discord.gg/S6vwHnjfZh

RE book bans We’re past signing petitions. Show up. Show up at the library. Show up at board meetings. Run for local boards. The fox is already in the hen house*, they don’t care about your signature on a petition. *Books help us understand metaphors like this

Under fascism, no one is safe. Universities stayed quiet as the admin targeted DEI & foreign aid, censored research, etc. Now, they face devastating cuts to indirect cost rates, threatening research & operations. Silence won’t protect institutions. It won’t protect people; it never does.

Leave the world more beautiful than before. Make the space around you more beautiful. That is my mission. I might not be as beautiful now as in my youth, but, I can still make everything more beautiful than it currently is. The world around me will always have sparkles & a gleaming light! 🌅🌈🦄💃💛🎶🎧

twitter (and tiktok) has this issue in where non journalists are posting as journalists and copying journalist’s headlines and breaking news articles for clicks ($.5 an interaction lol) and i am starting to see that issue on here. this is a reminder to ALWAYS check your source of information.

Who is besties with NK Jemisin and can tell her how wonderful I am? I can’t take another day not knowing her. 😭😭😭😭😭

Friends are switching from WhatsApp to Signal. Smart move. Also, the less you support Zuck the Cuck, the better.

Here are some memoirs by black women that I recommend and were recently recommended to me! Let me know if you’ve read or plan to read any of these 🤎 #booksky #blackbooksky #blacksky

If an action is not intended to block, shut down, or stop some form of power in a real sense, it is useless or worse. Boycotts, work stoppages, blocking buildings, MA groups, etc need to be the floor for effective action at this point. Clever signs will not cut it.

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