Ancestrally grounded

Ancestrally grounded

@drladydemerald.bsky.social

Conjure. Hoodoo. Public Health. Policy. History. Astrology. Books & Black culture. Lady D. Emerald πŸ’šπŸ’œπŸ€Ž K. Howell, PhD, MPH, MPhil πŸ’™πŸ•Šβœ¨οΈ

692 Followers 196 Following 1,911 Posts Joined Nov 2024
9 hours ago
image of @117.zone's oc's moth cradling a glowing moth in their hands. this version shows their tail. image of @117.zone's oc's moth cradling a glowing moth in their hands. this version does not show their tail.

At peace. πŸ¦‹
[ #commission for @117.zone and @doondesigns.net / both versions]

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11 hours ago

Women apologize SO much that when we finally find ourselves in all-female spaces, we're constantly coming up with ways to basically spray-bottle train one another to stop apologizing for the dumbest shit, like it's fucking deprogramming.

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15 hours ago
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They Didn’t Want to Have C-Sections. A Judge Would Decide How They Gave Birth. Two Florida women had to attend virtual court hearings while in labor to argue for their right to choose their own medical care. As their state pushes to expand some types of medical freedom, it has a...

NEW: They Didn’t Want to Have C-Sections. A Judge Would Decide How They Gave Birth.

Two Florida women had to attend virtual court hearings while in labor to argue for their right to choose their own medical care.

By @amyyurkanin.bsky.social

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21 hours ago

About 40% in.

I'm still liking it! Deeper character development is happening, which I like.

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1 day ago
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Being nosy & saw Black history is happening on the skyline!

@tressiemcphd.bsky.social is just realizing that @authormsbev.bsky.social knows of her and the interaction πŸ”₯

Mind you they both are Black women trailblazers in their own respective fields .

Love being a Black woman, truly 🫢🏽

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3 days ago
Flyer of event of National Medical Association March 19-22

Please join us and register now. Proud to join colleagues as a panelist speaking on rural health in obstetrics and gynecology @acog.org #NationalMedicalAssociation #obgynsky #obskyn #Blacksky #medsky #Blackmedsky @aafp.org

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3 days ago

Real question: where is March going?

It's already the 11th... almost the 12th.

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4 days ago
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"We have never seen corporate profits to the degree we have over the past 4 years." β€” @kedseconomist.com

At the same time, families are going without retirement plans, affordable health coverage, or paid leave, even as the cost of living keeps rising. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

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Now reading via audio with a cast:

"A sweeping fantasy adventure with a dash of romance between a nine-tailed fox and the demon-hunter who captures her, banished to the underworld together and forced to form a reluctant alliance in order to escape the circles of Hell." #booksky #blackbooksky

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4 days ago
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Live Results: Mississippi midterm primary elections Mississippi Democrats on Tuesday will decide between longtime U.S. Rep. Bennie Thompson and his 34-year-old primary challenger in a race that reflects generational struggle for control of the party.

Mississippi Democrats on Tuesday will decide between longtime U.S. Rep. Bennie Thompson and his 34-year-old primary challenger in a race that reflects generational struggle for control of the party.
https://to.pbs.org/4b88bDS

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4 days ago
The Defeat of Black Power. 
Civil Rights and the National Black Political Convention of 1972 by Leonard Moore

54 years ago today on March 10, 1972...something significant took place.

The who's who of the Black community gathered in Gary, Indiana for the Black Political Convention.

Some 10,000 delegates showed up to create an agenda for change going forward, and was the height of the Black Power Era

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4 days ago

The amount of tornadoes thus far this year is crazy (or maybe I'm more aware of them).

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4 days ago

Now I gotta write a male POV and I'm like 😬

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4 days ago
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a little girl is dancing in a room with the words yes ! imgplay below her ALT: a little girl is dancing in a room with the words yes ! imgplay below her

In other fun news, I've hit 15k words on my current WIP!

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4 days ago
Iranian National Dies in
Mississippi - 17th ICE Related
Death Since December 31
By Izzy Ramirez

Fifty-nine-year-old Pejman Karshenas Najafabadi is currently the 11th person to have died while in ICE custody this year that we know of, and the 17th ICE-related death since the killing of Keith Porter on December 31, 2025.

Story lataco.com/iranian-ice-...

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4 days ago

Anyways. My friend told me that people should stop talking to me and I agree.

I gotta learn to become an introvert 4real.

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4 days ago

End/

I just want people to know that the only reason I am on Threads is because my ancestors told me too.

But it is a cesspool of people who wanna seem cool to other people like you're 12.

Not critical thought process at all. Just echochambers on bookthreads. Yall not exhausted?

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4 days ago

3/

Then they were comparing ADULT SMUT ROMANCE COVERS to a YA contemporary because they did not know that it was a YA. Bffr! Goes back to my previous point.

And covers to do matter. Proper representation does matter. Yall wss just bitchin' about book covers. But now it doesn't matter. Oh okay.

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4 days ago

2/ yes the yt woman said what she said out of malice but she technically was not wrong.

Some of yall treat big animals like yt people treat you and treated your ancestors. And that's a whole nothet conversation just like the conversation about YA.

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4 days ago

Folks pissed me off so bad when I got on Threads.

My god. The cover is not good. Blame publishing. Yall dont write YA for kids no more because if yall did you would've made requests for the book to be in the libraries vs buying up the book where they no longer have access to it. 1/

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5 days ago

I finally got over the hump of this chapter that is pivotal to the history of my WIP (alt history fantasy).

It is done. I feel great. Like a winner. A sleepy winner but one nonetheless.

It's probably the longest chapter thus far but πŸ€·πŸ½β€β™€οΈ

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1 week ago

does anyone have lupus and/or mcas? i need to know what to do about this itchy flare rash on my chest 😭 my dupixent won’t be here until the 10th, so i’m outta pocket

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1 week ago

All previous presidents speaking candidly during the fune:

I mightve been not that great but I was NEVER this bad. We gotta lock in!

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1 week ago

Yall have to remember that Black folk and Latinos have no sense of time 🀣

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1 week ago

Gustavo said AND ANOTHER THING!!!!

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1 week ago

Exactly!!!! He was going off!

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1 week ago

This Colombian man is speaking DOWN!

He giving everyone a history lesson 4real 4real!

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1 week ago

Lemme turn my Spanish ears on πŸ‘‚πŸ½

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1 week ago

I should've been over here keke-ing with yall with this fune.

But I've been multitasking today.

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1 week ago

USPS along with federal health agencies were and are being sabotaged.

Those socialist programs you wanted have always been here. If they weren't, they wouldn't be sabotaging them.

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