*very* tempted to give myself a lil Prince-style silk press, for kicks.

I’m shyyyy 🫣

psst...Bookshop is doing an anti-Prime free shipping sale today and tmrw...! Get choo a copy of PANSY. 🖤✏️ #BlackBookSky #booklovers #booksky

I really be blasting house music at my desk like it's 1am at party. It's a Monday afternoon 😂

I love to teach people who want to learn. That second part is very important lol.

Y’all loooook ✨. Galaxy public art installation by @jwahrenee.bsky.social!

Evergreen

Assata Shakur has "died in Havana, Cuba, as a result of health conditions and her advanced age." She was 78.

Hiii, it's meeee. I'll be developmental editing w/my girl Isobel (the cat) at @stray-cats-ink.bsky.social. Bring us your manuscripts. <3

Excuse me, say what now!? This was a trip to read LOL.

Fresh cats stepping out! Meet our new editors: Elise, Elizabeth, Sudarshana, and Jaz (@blkpansy.bsky.social). We will share details on their areas of expertise throughout the week, but you can visit our website now to see the purrfect fit for your editing needs!! 😻😻😻😻

Throw our friends at Loyalty some love if you can- they've gotten massively screwed by the occupation in DC.

Flashback to the film that disappeared from theaters after just one week after assumed pushback from the FBI, 'The Spook Who Sat by the Door' (1973). Highly fucking recommend. Especially rn.

imagining being a river otter swimming in circles with all of my smooth friends

I wrote a breakdown of my love of Audre Lorde’s term, “biomythography” for a really cool seminar I’m doing next week.

All of this is so silly, I fear.

lmao not the NRA said "trans rights 🏳️‍⚧️!"

enshittification | noun | when a digital platform is made worse for users, in order to increase profits

September is library sign-up month! Now is the perfect time to get one, if you haven't already.

Did y'all know you can get a library card from the Queer Liberation Library? You get access to their catalog via Libby. Go sign up! 👏🏾 www.queerliberationlibrary.org #BlackBookSky #BookSky #QueerBooks

So we're in that seedy part of the timeline where major companies are hiring literal, seasoned poets to train AI how to write poetry for $150 an hour. Cool, cool, cool.

“Eddie got fired for helping a ****” lives in my head RENT FREE

I didn’t know Harriet Tubman was an expert herbalist, but it makes so much sense. Our connection to the earth is such a vital part of Black liberation.

Sydney Baloue, the first trans man to solely win Grand Prize for “Old Way” at the Latex Ball in 2019 (as well as acclaimed writer, journalist, WGA member, archivist—the list goes on!), just started a newsletter about ballroom history 💜💜💜

Thank you! Pre-ordering is essentially the best way to support an author. It influences how many copies bookstores stock as well as best seller lists. If you love a writer’s work, pre-order.

Not gone' hold you, my website updates are cute as hell. jasperjoyner.com

hope in the city

"Have you been writing out your worries, feeling your feelings, letting yourself grieve and putting that pain somewhere right?" Asked some questions for a rainy day over on the newsletter.

✨SURPRISE!!✨ Starting today, I am offering author services!! Check out my most recent post on IG for more details: www.instagram.com/p/DNwCPd24lj... #Booksky #BlackBooksky 💙📚 #AuthorBooksky #AuthorServices

Going over time in meetings is not okay to me but the ppl love to do it. Y'all think this shit is fun??

This is so funny to me. They piecemealed media into oblivion so much that now young folks out here torrenting like it's 2005. I'm so here for it.

Y’all it just hit me, I coulda been checking out DVDs from the library this whole time.

Hey, as a librarian I need to tell you: Our funding depends on usage. So go ahead and check out that book even if you don't think you'll finish it. No one will know. Check out that DVD even though you might not like it. Get ambitious in your quest for knowledge.

oh girl, turmeric milk is saving my life rn

Some of y’all never saw the Disney classic ‘Smart House’ and it shows

today in freelance life: 4 hours in zoom meetings, each hour for a different thing.

So there's a Labubu dolls craze and they *don't* give kids nightmares?? Fascinating.

Y’all I’m so ready for LeStat’s season #IWAV

There's something so chill about this app. It fr feels like folks here make a real effort to make sure this feels different, and that intention is everything.

Bae did my hair, it’s up

It looks like we have some new friends, which means it’s time to reintroduce ourselves. 🥳 Hi! We’re Bookshop.org, an alternative to Amazon for buying books online where every single purchase financially supports independent bookstores.

"You got to make your own worlds. You got to write yourself in." - Octavia Butler

This isn’t even an AI post as much as it is another anecdote in how social relations in America have been put through a blender of extreme market extraction at the same time that govt/charitable support for 3rd spaces, extracurriculars, social clubs, etc have fallen to their lowest point in decades.

CONGRATS for the 2024 Quill Prose Award! The Quill Prose Award, established by Red Hen Deputy Director Tobi Harper-Petrie, is dedicated to empowering authors who identify as queer. Submissions to the 2025 Quill Prose Award is officially open. redhen.org/awards/quill...

I love the library.

Maaaaaan this is cool as hell. Shout out to Artist Feature Magazine. www.artistfeaturemag.com

Looking at AI generated “art” literally makes me nauseous. It ain’t right.

History requires deep, extensive research a lot of that research will end up not being directly relevant. You won't know that until you get in it. Research isn't just pulling a doc with all the answers, it's finding connections, it's understanding what's *not* being said, it's knowing context.