Lucille Clifton’s “won’t you celebrate with me” is the poem I reach for the most as I move through the world finding joy and breaking generational curses. I remind myself that “i made it up” when I stumble building a life I’ve never seen. 28 poems for Black History Month day 1

obligatory shoppe is now open post to support me in my top surgery recovery! thank you so much! ✨💖🏳️‍⚧️ nooskaart.etsy.com

Apparently this ends today! On Kindle and other retailers

Hi again. I’m on a disability pension and will have to pay around 100$ soon to transport my mom from the hospital to the nursing home where she lives. Asking in advance so I’ll be ready when the call comes. Thanks for any help! ko-fi.com/soniasulaima...

Here's a closer look at one of the valentines 🥰 SquidFacts.net

On the first day of the one hundredth year of Black History Month, I am thinking of the tremendous legacy of Carter G. Woodson, its founder. His philosophies, which were expounded upon by Jarvis Givens, guide my teaching of a diverse population of students at an HBCU. #BHM

happy black history month 🩷

Happy Black History Month 🖤✨ Libraries and books are from perfect. The Dewey Decimal System is imperfect. But we will never forget the work of Dorothy B. Porter. She decolonized the Dewey Decimal System. She helped us belong in libraries, in books. We celebrate and thank you, Dorothy B. Porter 💜📚

This is the news I’ve been waiting for 😭 #FreeThemAll #AbolishICE

Hey #writers, who'd be up for doing a workshop to raise some funds for Minnesota charities? @alexpenname.bsky.social and I are putting something together. Repost and spread the word, please!

we need to take a moment to celebrate when a good thing happens. it is fuel for the work. feel the joy. take a big breath in. let yourself cry. we will win because we've got us.

From now through Feb. 5, I'm open to queries in the categories given in the thread below.

Finished crocheting my new tapestry :') Designed it myself!!! So fun!!! #tapestrycrochet #crochet #art

Annual reminder that I don’t reskeet images without alt text. Just like in my cookbook, I’m all about accommodating sensory needs.

Vernon and Anita are my favorite couple on (current) soaps. #BeyondTheGates

"Many people who may not have been politically involved in the past are now risking their lives for people they have never even met, simply because they are their neighbors." If you read one thing in full today - let it be this, from @ndncollective.bsky.social ndncollective.org/no-one-is-il...

The California State University system spent $16.9 million last year giving ChatGPT to all students, faculty, and staff. We are asking the CSU chancellor not to renew the contract with OpenAI when it expires. Anyone can sign the petition — link below!

Now would be a good time to try the Friday Afternoon Tea & @bookstoreromanceday.org tea collaboration. It tastes like love & sunshine. www.fridaytea.com/products/boo...

Not going to finish another book today, so here's January's #ReinaReads thread. Stats: 9 books total + 2 DNFs 5 romance 1 mystery 1 GN 1 MG 1 PB 3 audio 3 print 3 e-book 4 romances were almost finished on 1/1, so I didn't actually read that much this month. Currently reading: 3 books 1/11

Today in soap history: Irna Philips' *These Are My Children* debuted in 1949 on US TV. Philips had already worked on #GuidingLight but it wouldn't air on TV until 1952. For more on Philips and soap history, check out www.wbez.org/making/2025/...

Time for a #PBRisingStars update! We will now have a SINGLE blog post on Sunday from co-founder Kailei Pew explaining how to use each mentor page to decide who to apply to. Kailei will also be answering questions that come in on that blog post for one week!

Much of the public believes violent crime is a major problem, even though it's at historic lows in the United States. This disconnect is "the product of carefully cultivated propaganda," says author @equalityalec.bsky.social. https://www.democracynow.org/2026/1/27/alec_karakatsanis

Honest to god EVERYONE but esp black queer ppl should watch the newer doc "Little Richard: I am everything" because its all in his own words

Some interesting aspects discussed here #Days #YR #BoldandBeautiful #GH womansworld.com/entertainment/tv-shows/surprising-history-of-soap-opera-actresses-as-power-players-on-tv-exclusive

One of the things I hope folks take away here is that $14,000,000 of your tax dollars were funneled away from US libraries and museums and into the hands of PragerU.

“It is a time for action, and what matters most is that that action, whatever what we call it, is effective.” Important from @kimkelly.bsky.social this morning. lithub.com/kim-kelly-on...

An amazing MN Librarian assembled us a reading list to add to the website so people can do more than donate, they can learn to organize in their communities. standwithminnesota.com/read

Dug out an old transcript, because I can't remember that kind of detail from the early 1990s. Nevermind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college: Historians Methods Italy Before Unification History of Religions 20th Century American Lit & Film Death and Dying

Gives me joy to see that I can still bake. My daughter had a lemon bar and said "Mom, you *cooked*!" :) (recipe from Sally's Baking Addiction site)

Inspiring community memory work led by Teressa Raiford and the awesome Don't Shoot PDX crew. bsky.app/profile/oreg...

Watching more primetime new shows and disgusted by how many characters are still asking people, even children, "are they/do you have a girl/boyfriend?" and it's also usually them assuming heterosexuality. Writers, and people, please stop this. It's loaded with harmful assumptions and isn't caring.

Fred Korematsu lived for over four decades with a "disloyalty" conviction that prevented him from full-time employment until 1983 - in a case that led to the passing of the Civil Liberties Act of 1988, providing redress to all Japanese Americans interned during WW2. 2/ 📷: Shirley Nakao

No idea what's for dinner tonight, but I baked lemon bars and apple crisp, so does it matter?

I need a break from the relentless (bad!) news, so I'm poking through some recent photos, and I figured hey, maybe you want a momentary break as well. So here are four of those photos. All by me.

Lord*, you are taking the wrong people! (*universe, grim reaper, whoever is doing this, stop it)

She was known as “Ms. Shirley” to her more than 5 million TikTok followers, and would share videos of herself delivering food and hygiene products from her car on Skid Row and other homeless communities in California and Nevada. https://bit.ly/4bVquhK

Still hibernating #art

ALT text: Liz and Dante on #GeneralHospital sitting on a bench at the hospital, looking at each other kind of seriously. She wears blue scrubs with a white undershirt, one hand on the bench, and he's in an olive-tan shirt with dark pants, his hands clasped. Me: Wow, are they pretty together.

Okay, it took me three days to finally do this, BUT! You can buy whistles from us now! I stress again that getting the whistles free is the OBVIOUS OPTION but some folks want 1-5 Kit Rocha whistles instead of 100 whistles, or to support us. So. OK! thebrokencircle.etsy.com/listing/4449...

"I am so proud to be in the struggle with people who are embracing their kinship across time and space, across imagined divides, in spite of the isolation this system would impose upon us. Our enemies never imagined that their actions would bring us together this way."

Yes, we have big enemies all around, but can we please stop using inherent traits as means for ridicule? We wouldn't make fun of someone's skin colour, so let's not make fun of their body shape, their age, their weight, their face, their hairline, etc etc Your shrapnel hits those who watch you.

Remember when I said I think our sense of time is being f’d with by these platforms - here is a great example from @imanibarbarin.bsky.social educating us on asynchronous communication www.instagram.com/reel/DUIyx7N...

Did this make me cry just now? Yes. You should read it too.

Please, all the Beverly Jenkins book adaptations! 🫶

Winners of the Newbery, Caldecott, and Printz Awards share their reactions in @pwkidsbookshelf.bsky.social: Renée Watson: Newbery 'Tears Of Joy' Cátia Chien: Caldecott 'Wait, Is This What I Think It Means?' Cynthia Leitich Smith @cynleitichsmith.bsky.social: Printz 'Genuinely Gobmacked' #KidLit

Donations are open until 2/5 for the #KidLit4Ceasefire Fundraiser! Funds raised will go toward the three families we're currently fundraising for, with a small portion going to the PCRF, with a goal of $60,000 raised. Anyone can donate an item, even if you aren't in kidlit!

every time someone has asked me the last week or so about priorities it is rental assistance. please please please people need rent to stay in their homes. scroll down to rent relief funds and pick something www.standwithminnesota.com

So many amazing donations from authors, illustrators, agents & editors to the #PublishingForMinnesota auction! Bidding now open, ends Jan. 30th: www.32auctions.com/publishingfo... #KidLit #BookSky #EduSky #WriterSky

Swan Meadow, a queer art co-op, is selling this riso print as a fundraiser for the MICA Project and the Freedom Community Center: www.liketheplant.com/shop/p/jks1e...

I need alt text. I have a processing disorder and uncorrectable astigmatism. I access alt text several dozen times a day.