Tananarive Due - The Reformatory

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It's official: My next book is about Battlestar Galactica! Long ago, the gods decided my fate, and I have embraced it: I’m writing a book about Battlestar Galactica! I made it official at the Creation convention that took place in New Jersey this past weeken...

it's HAPPENING! I've revealed the subject of my next book and it's YES of course, it's a deep dive into #BattlestarGalactica! For that news and a few thoughts on the #BSG convention that just took place, read this! 💚🔥 www.moryan.com/its-official...

I gave my heart and soul to that place. Built entire sections for journalists pushed out of their home countries.

When the writer I hired, Jamal Khashoggi was murdered by Saudi Arabia, they paraded me around as a symbol for press freedom.

I put MY LIFE on the line to defend journalism and WaPo.

The real face of the aliens when you put on the special glasses in the movie THEY LIVE

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If you are going to pick up a book this fall make it @tananarivedue.bsky.social “The Reformatory”. Incredibly written. Draws you in with raw and gut wrenching storytelling that reminds us all of the strength in telling our stories — not just for us but for all of those whose voices were silenced.

The front cover of Freedom In The Family: A Mother-Daughter Memoir of the Fight for Civil Rights, by Tananarive Due and Patricia Stephens Due. (One World, 2003) The cover illustration is a B&W photo of Patricia Stephens Due, in dark sunglasses, leading a line of other young black women along a sidewalk, heads held high.

Title Page inside this copy of Freedom in the Family. It is inscribed, "To Anne -- The Dream Lives! The struggle continues." signed Tananarive Due in the middle, and Patricia Due along the bottom edge. In the top right corner, it says, "7/18/14 Detcon1" The right side and bottom of the book are edged with several yellow post-its, marking pages of interest.

This week's Friday review on AKGnetmouse.substack.com will be of Freedom in the Family, by @tananarivedue.bsky.social and her mother, Civil Rights activist Patricia Stephens Due.

I cherish my copy, which Tananarive kindly signed at Detcon1 in 2014.

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That part lol

I mean, I KNEW. But I didn't KNOW know.

a close up of a man 's face with a serious look on his face Alt: Denzel looking relieved

I heard that name "Robinson" - then I saw the photo.

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The MSNBC commentator saying that most political violence has historically come from the left just once again showed how we suffer from failing to learn history. Lynching, pogroms, race riots, the political violence that ended Reconstruction, and against the Civil Rights Movement. Come on.

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I was lucky enough to attend a screening and it was a wild ride! So fun and imaginative.

Congrats @bryanfuller.bsky.social!!!

Everytime someone tells me something like “I’m proud you stand up for what you believe in…”

I always think to myself —

My ancestors survived the genocide of the Spanish conquest, the slave trade, the invasion of the U.S., theft of their land, more.

They survived all that, I can survive words.

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My @copperdogbooks.bsky.social haul. I was so excited to not only snag the last copy of Moonflow by @bitterkarella.bsky.social but to also find a signed copy of one of my favorite @tananarivedue.bsky.social books!

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MAN, does it pay to live under smarter leadership!

Great news, fellow NYers!

PREACH, Reverend!

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