There’s a goodreads giveaway happening for the paperback edition of my YA Chinese underworld inspired fantasy Darker By Four! You have just 1 more day to enter!!!🏃‍♀️🏃‍♀️🏃‍♀️ #books www.goodreads.com/book/show/21...

Good news! Harper Voyager and I have come together to give away 100 copies of MACABRE! If you want to read my adult horror debut this is a great chance to enter! www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho...

I opened up my online shop!! It's going to be up for the foreseeable future, and I'll be shipping out orders weekly ;) 🌸 www.shazleenkhan.shop 🌸 Shares appreciated! #artistshop #art

The klan, the police, the butcher, baker and candlestick maker in every little Southern hamlet used to disappear Black people too. When they didn't step off the street. When they whistled. When they bought a new suit and stood too straight. Fascism isn't new here. It's coming for you too.

imagine needing to put other people's stolen writing into a computer to write a book. couldn't be me.

i love working on comics in between my prose work because artists are some of the most delightful people to collaborate with. so much talent and creative energy goes into even the tiniest panel

ONE parent. And in Florida, ONE man is responsible for 40% of all book challenges in the state. The book banners are a tiny minority. Make that clear by speaking up in favor of the freedom to read. (Email your school board!)

Done. I can't believe this was just 3 days ago. Thanks to @prisonculture.bsky.social for the idea. Thanks to @dell.bsky.social for the boost. The idea? During #TeslaTakedown events, present consumers with an alternative to Tesla as you do your part to save democracy. www.betterthanatesla.com

Do you ever just remember "Ruthkanda Forever" and burst out laughing

In 2009 GOP Member of Congress Joe Wilson screamed “you lie” during Obama’s SOTU. No censure by the GOP, only “reprimanded” by Dems At Biden’s SOTU 2022 Lauren Boebert and MTG heckled him, nothing.. But Dems will happily throw their Black colleague under a bus for white moderate voter pandering

I'm of two minds because on the one hand, yes, I definitely have my concerns about the tropeification of both Romance and Fantasy But also I'd really love to see more BIPOC and queer writers get to jump in on the romantasy train before we all collectively decide enough is enough

I have received more bots on a single post on Bluesky than I ever got on any singular post on Twitter. Something is really shifting over here, and not in a good way.

Well, this has definitely been an eye-opening experience with the growing Bluesky bot problem yikes :/

I'm looking for a Black illustrator to commission character art from! Any recommendations for people you know or have worked with (or yourself! Hype your shit!!) are greatly appreciated! #art #BlackSky

Ramadan Mubarak 🌙 I pray that everyone has blessed month of peace, self-improvement, spiritual growth and forgiveness. I have such FOMO since I am not able to fast this year again but hope to make the most of Ramadan in the ways that I can.

I made this the other night while procrastinating, mainly because I thought all the posts about the blackout were boring. It feels like there is momentum bringing people together!

today was supposed to be a deep-dive research day, so of course my deeply ADHD brain also decided today is also the perfect day to teach myself to play chess????

"Leaders... said they’d fielded numerous calls from the parents of transgender youth worried about this legislation. Senate Majority Leader Jamie Pedersen, D-Seattle, said his office had gotten over 500 emails and calls from constituents about the bill." Your voice matters. ❤️👊☎️

a concept my therapist taught me that has radically changed my approach to community and care is that healthy relationships require room for repair. we are all going to hurt and be hurt by one another as we try to survive this current moment. remember to keep room for repair whenever you can

POV: You're a crisis PR professional and you just heard Kendrick made a diss track against your client. Wyd?

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Public comment is now open for passport gender marker changes. You can go here to go to each of the three proposed passport rules, and submit comment. My suggestion: be unique, argue for trans-inclusive policies, against the constitutionality of the changes, etc. www.reddit.com/r/Passports/...

I cannot tell y'all how much I enjoyed these books. Also 5th anniversary?!? I mean ok, I remember being out on my balcony during the pandemic reading the first book but also.....5th anniversary?!?

Early access is now open exclusively for my newsletter subscribers! Reserve your copy while you can, folks! 💚⚔️❤️ rosiesrambles.beehiiv.com/p/pre-orders...

If you want to write heroes in the year 2025, you have to decide what they stand for, and then stand for it. The mealy-mouthed, offend-no-one approach no longer works. People respond to the Walter Whites bc you can put truth in their mouths. So put truth in the mouths of the good guys.

Healing from a sprained ankle shouldn't technically be affecting my writing like I don't keep my words in my foot??? yet here we are staring at another blank page :')

Y'all I can finally announce that we are doing a 5th Anniversary edition of the ASOWAR series!!! 🎉❤️⚔️💚🌌 This edition with custom sprayed edges debuts exclusively at Apollycon. Sign up for my newsletter to receive an early access pre-order link tomorrow! rosiesrambles.beehiiv.com/subscribe

Hey all, I have a specific request this AM. There's an urgent situation involving this (which Martha references in the original description), and the total needs to be doubled. Martha's OOO so I don't want to bother her to change the amount, but I'm asking for your help. gofund.me/505857f2

Happy Black History Month

Here's the link to the advisory, for those looking for it: naacp.org/campaigns/bl...

The NAACP is re-mixing 1930s-era "don't buy where you can't work" campaigns to confront the neo-segregationists targeting DEI. apnews.com/article/blac...

A Friday reminder that having your book banned doesn't sell books. Only THE MOST banned books see support, and I assure you all those creators would prefer their books were NOT banned instead. There's no silver lining. It's just the knowledge that ppl hate you! Ok have a good weekend

Did you take a #DoomscrollBreak today? I'll be taking mine shortly after posting this. Emma Dupree pursued how plants could help humans in many different ways throughout her life. #BHM #Herbalist 🌱 theherbalacademy.com/blog/black-h... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emma_Du... www.youtube.com/watch?v=HV2b...

In reality, the Nahua peoples who spoke of "Chalchiuhtlicueyecatl" didn't use that name for what's now the Gulf of Mexico. Instead, that name means "the Fresh Water of Chalchiuhtlicue," and it refers to her mansion in the midst of the cosmic sea, to the east the sea-ringed world. I'll explain. 1/

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no the fuck we are NOT making “LGBQ+” a thing and if I see any of you motherfuckers using that acronym it’s on sight Marsha P. Johnson did not smash in the windshield of a police car for this

A quick resistance task: 1. Google Gulf of Mexico 2. “Gulf of America" is the top 3. Click on the three little dots to the right of it 4. Select "Send Feedback" 5. Click on "Gulf Of America" 6. Select "Inaccurate content" 7. Select "Incorrect" and type in "The correct name is “Gulf of Mexico"

DAY 2 Y'ALL LET'S DO THIS

Update we got kicked out of the seat geek queue. still ticketless. things are getting crazy scary spooky hilarious

if everybody and their mama don't get out of this Beyoncé DC show queue so i can get my ticket

if you want to know how to hold on to your humanity while the empire actively targets it, study Black folk study how to hold on to your light and your belief this often shitty world is still worth fighting for the answers are there. but you have to actually do the work to get them.

the Black ability to foster joy, creativity, and art under even the direst of circumstances is unparalleled

Whenever anybody claims "rap isn't real music" or similar, I can't help but remember that ppl thought Mozart's operas were too vulgar for the ears of polite ladies, Van Gogh was a hack, and Shakespeare just a commercial playwright. You don't know what history will put a halo around

Not Drake unfollowed Sam Jackson 😂😂😂😂

any tips on becoming kendrick level unrepentantly petty for someone who feels bad if they take 16 items into the 15 items or less line?

Kendrick yelling into a phone: GET ME HATERS. ONLY THE BEST HATERS.