What Are You Reading? #Books I finished in May. #solvejballe #zoranealehurston #helengarner #jeangiono

#Books I finished in April. #marysecondé #donnatartt #madelinemiller #fyodordostoyevsky

Mrs. Trump joins her husband in a practice called "how to act guilty."

#Books I finished in February and March. #whatareyoureading? #shondarhimes #emmag #ayikweiarmah #georgesaunders

Let me tell you what White supremacy is: over 30 brown folks died in ICE detention last year & barely a peep about it—even from White progressives. A White woman is killed & the entire country is in an uproar. I am not saying it wasn’t tragic. But it can be BOTH tragic & proof of White supremacy.

How can anyone work in the middle of this madness?

Wishing you every good thing the season has to offer, and all the best for the coming year! 😘❤️😘

I actually think even if he demolished the entire White House and put a large golden statue of himself in its stead, MAGA would go there to pay pilgrimage and get on their knees to pray before it. There is no saving those people at this point. Nothing will convince them he is the antichrist.

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I can’t begin to tell you how damaging “the world isn’t fair, get used to it” line has been to every child’s psyche growing up and therefore has led to a world that stays unfair. If we teach children to get used to an unfair world, we are destroying the possibility of a better world.

But for real, shout out to Julia Roberts’s media training when that whack reporter asked a racist ass question and shout out to Andrew Garfield turning his whole body in disgust and Ayo Edibiri for answering a disingenuous question the way it needed to be answered.

@nytimes.com doesn’t have ONE story on the unlawful detaining & attempt to police Texas State Rep. Nicole Collier! And @washingtonpost.com only has some tiny piece that you have to scroll several times to locate. This erasure is an outrage! Stop ignoring the mistreatment of Black women.

Six years ago today, Toni Morrison transitioned. I had forgotten, but when I woke up this morning she was strong-strong on my mind about her & then I saw someone’s post & understand why. This clip from her speaking on the “bereft” nature of racism—oh I miss her so much. youtu.be/n2txzMkT5Pc?...

Obama is the best of ‘em!

It is bizarre the way people with guns, bulletproof vests, riot shields, tanks, and other military gear act like rocks are an equal threat. It’s madness! If you are scared of rocks and think the punishment for having them thrown at you should be death, you shouldn’t be in law enforcement!

Congratulations to my sister, @stephtwrites.bsky.social , on making the cover!!! ❤️ #books #writer #author #winning #imgoingtobeaprincess #covergirl

I have a new book out today, the Portable Feminist Reader. I hope you check it out. audacity.substack.com/p/new-book-o...

It’s very discouraging to watch our country slowly re-learn the lessons that led to the end of segregation, among them that people who think they’re racially superior are nearly universally incompetent fools unable to face up to their own deficiencies and putting them in charge is suicide

Love this app, where I get to say “extremely radical left wing communist” things like: everyone deserves affordable healthcare and children should not be shot at in school and Palestinian people deserve safe and gentle lives in their homeland.

Don’t buy stuff on February 28. Money’s the only thing these dicks understand. #resist

If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it’s another brilliant performance by Daniel Day-Lewis

Write new worlds. Write beautiful places. Write angry people. Write imaginary beasts, futile quests, broken hearts, lifelong injustices, mysteries, love affairs, lost children, newfound purpose. Write anything that allows you to escape or heal or vent or rage or explore or reconcile. Write 🖤

• Get a library card • Use your library card • Support indie booksellers • Read banned books • Read diverse authors • Resist • Repeat #booksky #resist

Remembering: Dr. Martin Luther King 1/15/29 to 4/4/68 Leader Intelligent Visionary Eloquent Brave Peaceful Determined Reflective Inspirational #Bluesky #Blacksky #CivilRightsMovement

Do not forget your humanity 🙏🏾👍🏾

Unsolicited writing advice, #17171617: Don't just write. Read books. Watch films. Look at paintings and sculpture. Play games. Go to plays. Listen to music. Think about how these things make you feel. Making art is a two-way stream. To make art, you have to consume art.

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Sometimes, healing comes with unexpected logistics 😅

So happy for my sister, Stephanie Taylor, who has won a @readingrocks.bsky.social award for her debut children’s book, “I’m Going to be a Princess”!!! ❤️🎉🙌🏽🎉🙌🏽🎉🙌🏽🎉❤️

This is more than a miscarriage of justice - it is a green light for more violence against unarmed Black Americans.

Jordan Neely was unarmed. He needed support and care. Instead, he received a death sentence. His family grieves while the man who took his life walks free.

HEY! It's the Big Green Books Christmas Raffle! Tickets are just £2 each. All the money raised is going on books for three amazing schools. You can win ALL these SIGNED books + £50 to spend on books of your choice. Details HERE. biggreenbookshop.com/index.php Please share. Ta.

It's Wednesday, so it's "Buy A Stranger a Book" day on Bluesky! I'll give away two books. FOR FREE. If there's a book you want let me know. If YOU want to "Buy a Stranger a Book" too get in touch! #buyastrangerabook Here's what it's all about. biggreenbookshop.com/stuff-you-mi... (UK only)