Love the range of this conversation 💜

Great Blue Heron Fairfax VA USA

A lil midweek pep talk from one of my favs. 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

Demand context.

If I do nothing else in this life, I will write stories about how my people connect to nature. I will gather with our plant, animal, and elemental cousins as often as I can. I will uplift all of our names. We are children of the Earth, and we will never be destroyed. grist.org/language/nat...

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Your presence is still missed and we wish you here. 😢 Continue to Rest in Power, sir. 🙏🏽🙅🏾‍♂️ #ChadwickBoseman Nov. 29, 1976 - Aug. 28, 2020

"You know what honey, I'd be a rock. They seem like they got it easy, ya know? Even if somebody steps on em, they win, because it hurts that person." -Lauren Keke Palmer

TFW you're still online at your desk at 1:30am & your wife, who went to bed hours ago, appears naked in the doorway, intoning dolefully: "I am the ghost of common sense" before vanishing into the night [no photo]

"dark academia" do you mean middle school

A lot of people forget that RAP stands for RHYTHM AND POETRY

Just a little bump to help the wonderful @rsagarcia.bsky.social help cover cancer treatment expenses: www.gofundme.com/f/help-r-s-a...

I'm sitting for a cat who is 21, so basically a 100 year old woman. She is so regal and sweet. Yes, I'm giving her anything she wants 😭

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

Down, down to hell, and say I sent thee thither⁠

Wanted to share a critical AI spreadsheet I've been working on for a little bit now. It has a list of resources and links to materials I thought were interesting or that I used in my schools Critical AI LibGuide. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Flash audio fiction by Karama Neal! Love this story.

Come by my panels tomorrow! Get some fantastic historical inspiration for your fiction! Ask me easy questions like “what is your name” and “list some colors you like” and “wow, you’re so nice and delightful, are you sure this is your first time paneling?”

Washington Post: “Is fascism bad? The answer may surprise you” Teen Vogue: “Here are three fun tips you can use this summer to disable an armored personnel carrier”

If you ever wonder where I am or why I'm not online much it is because if I move even an inch, my cat gives me one airplane ear to let me know to stop it immediately as I am his naptime support wall.

I know this is specific to big brother, but boy does it speak to soooo many other things in the world right now. 😅😭

I'm trying this more often and I think my brain likes it!

Some fun news: our website is no longer a placeholder! If you want to read our submission guidelines, or just want to learn more about OTHERSIDE’s vision and team, go check it out! Ash did such a kickass job—the website is gorgeous and we are SO thrilled for it to be live!

Such a great opportunity for support!

If you're looking for a little spark of inspiration or encouragement as an artist and/or as a scientist, come hang out with us tomorrow, Aug. 7th at 4pm ET for Black Speculative Ecologies: Imagining Hopeful, Community-rich Futures us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Happy Fade in the Water Day to all who celebrate. (Sorry, deleted this earlier by accident.)

"I wish for a heart you can see straight through, a voice that glows in the dark, and a few good friends to skip moon rocks too."

One of the first things I ever wanted to be was a poet. Andrea Gibson's poetry helped shape my brain and heart as a young person. I am grateful for every word they shared with us. Got to meet them briefly in 2018. I said hello and shared how much their writing meant to me. Rest well, Andrea.

Andrea Gibson, Presente! Your legacy will stretch across time and space. Thank you.

We are almost at 8K! There are some tiers, too. There's $100 and $500 option. You can become an official patron of a Black-owned publisher! Check out Midnight Mystics: An Anthology of Fantasy Comics By Black W by Burning Phoenix Press on #kickstarter www.kickstarter.com/projects/844...

As someone whose day job is in activist/organizing spaces, I'm finding I have to limit my online consumption of activist stuff. Otherwise, it's totally overwhelming. We are playing a long game, and there is no return to normal. So it's important to take care of yourself as much as possible.

Catching the morning sun and admiring all the love I've put into my skin these last few months.

I love this!

My incredible @clarionwest.bsky.social classmate and fellow @viableparadise.bsky.social alum @kwonley.bsky.social is running a fundraiser for MetroWest Writers’ Guild, a wonderful nonprofit writing community. Please consider checking it out and spreading the word! tiltify.com/metrowest-wr...

Welcome to the new class! Cannot wait to get to know everyone. 🪼🤍

Join the Afrofuturism Collective on July 11th, 2025, at Noon ET for our next Community Conversation! Register here: bit.ly/46kUCQP #environmentaljustice #ECE #educators #afrofuturism

🤣 This is a healing moment. I need the whole show. Do it lady!

yes and yes. their early stuff is such a specific snapshot of the time and their later stuff is just plain good and it holds up. Fight For Your Right To Party and Sure Shot are good examples there. Give em a listen if you havent.

Yesterday I had a really rough friend breakup. Today my lillies bloomed. Something I would normally share with this friend. Platonic love lost hurts in its own special section of the heart.

WE'RE TAKING THE LESBIANS TO SPACE, HAROLD books2read.com/u/mBB0QZ

3...2...1... Let's jam.

We all have our role to play and it will shift over time. This is a relay, not a sprint. Take care of yourself and know that there are so many ways you can/are contributing 💚

I got the most encouraging story rejection today 🥹 I'm not sure what stage of 'the process' this is, but I am genuinely excited to know exectly what to work on to get where I want to go.

Another shot from my encounter yesterday morning- Greater Roadrunner portrait

Blessings and long life to all our gay, trans, and queer elders.

Happy Pride Month! 📚🌈 Starting off Black Romance Book Fest Sunday morning (and Pride Month) with my table neighbor @julianwinters.bsky.social, another author who writes MM Romance. Add our books to your Pride Month & MM Romance TBR lists! 📚🌈💕 #BRBF #BRBF25 #BlackRomanceBookFest #PrideMonth

I’ve been watching our kelp forests decline across my lifetime and it makes me very sad because kelp is cool as hell and supports a lot of marine life so I made a quilt about it.