Last book of February: finished up Surviving The White Gaze by @rebel19.bsky.social. So good!! Highly recommend if you’re into memoirs, especially those about race and family.

NYC! Honor the Voice and Vision of Black Women Writers this Thursday at “I Know What the Red Clay Looks Like,” hosted by @rebel19.bsky.social and Voices of a People’s History Thurssday, February 20th at 7:30 pm David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center Free w/ RSVP: mailchi.mp/peopleshisto...

This book by @rebel19.bsky.social just arrived and it is a balm in grim times.

Brooklyn! Celebrating the Lineage of Black Women Writers Join @rebel19.bsky.social & Cori Murray to explore the intersections of politics and art-making along lines of race, gender, sexuality, & class Tuesday, February 11th at 7:30 pm Center for Fiction RSVP: centerforfiction.org/event/on-ame...

Come through!

Monthly bookmail from @haymarketbooks.org is here!!! Because I can't finish one of their books without 3 more landing on my TBR 😅

Brooklyn! Celebrating the Lineage of Black Women Writers Join @rebel19.bsky.social & Cori Murray to explore the intersections of politics and art-making along lines of race, gender, sexuality, & class Tuesday, February 11th at 7:30 pm Center for Fiction RSVP: centerforfiction.org/event/on-ame...

This was an incredible conversation and I encourage folks to hit the Youtube link and watch because Donika, Morgan, and @rebel19.bsky.social had so many incredible things to say.

See you all in a few hours!! Virtual and free and importantly, the other people who are not me are AMAZING and I kind of wish I was just gonna be in the audience lol

It’s always a good time to talk about the fierce multitudes of Black women who write their lives into existence—but now feels like an especially good time. Join me, @donikakelly.bsky.social @chanda.bsky.social and Morgan Parker in conversation. Register here: www.tickettailor.com/events/hayma...

I Know What the Red Clay Looks Like Join @rebel19.bsky.social, Donika Kelly, @chanda.bsky.social, and Morgan Parker for a virtual celebration of the voice and vision of Black women writers Thursday, January 16th at 5:00 pm ET RSVP to attend: www.tickettailor.com/events/hayma...

I Know What the Red Clay Looks Like Join @rebel19.bsky.social, @donikakelly.bsky.social, and @chanda.bsky.social for a virtual celebration of the voice and vision of Black women writers Thursday, January 16th at 5:00 pm ET RSVP to attend: www.tickettailor.com/events/hayma...

This is banana pants terrifying.

Let’s go!

Happy Publication Day, @rebel19.bsky.social! 💐

Pub day for the reimagined and expanded anniversary edition of my first book, I Know What the Red Clay Looks Like!

I still have my TwiX account but I feel dirty every time I log into it.

Also I would like to ruin the lives of the racists so my children see they were loved by people who would do anything to protect them.

Honestly, this obsession over bathrooms and who gets to use them is just so dumb. Flush the toilet, wash your hands, and keep it pushing.

What are we doing here that’s different from what we’re doing on other social platforms?

This is a wierd take to me. America was founded on hate, misinformation, misogyny and racism. America actually won. Human decency lost.

THIS

I wrote a memoir called Surviving the White Gaze—about surviving the white gaze as a Black transracial adoptee raised in a white family and all white town. But also about surviving the broader white gaze default that is America. Recharged poignancy post Nov 4.

From my thoughts on the election outcome for The Meteor. @themeteor.bsky.social

Carrie Mae Weems said punch Nazis

New platform, new news to share—big full circle energy opening the box of the 30th anniversary editions of my very first book, I Know What the Red Clay Looks Like. Available Dec 3rd wherever you buy your books!

Rebecca Carroll--whose breathtaking memoir Surviving the White Gaze is two feet away from me as I write this--has joined Bluesky! 🥚 @rebel19.bsky.social