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Regarding the Black Ugandan Children Killed by Renee Bach

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#Neocolonialism #AfricanVoices #ReneeBach #Uganda #PanAfricanism #GlobalMajority #Panafricancess #GlobalSouth #mothers

New Yorkers, the law is clear: if you have an EBT balance, a store that accepts SNAP must allow you to use your card.

Follow these instructions and file a complaint with my office if you are denied: ag.ny.gov/consumer-complaint

congratulations! 🎊

It fosters creativity by enabling a reader to become completely immersed in other imaginary worlds and by giving them the ability to experience different perspectives outside of their own. It also acts as a universal space for all to see themselves reflected in characters that they identify with.

“Our school parking lots are not for ICE to load their weapons.”

- @mayorofchicago.bsky.social

Every mayor of a major city should follow his lead. (Looking at you Mattie Parker…)

10 Book to Get to Know Me

1. The Three Musketeers
2. Assata
3. Ours
4. Aftermath
5. Woman at Point Zero
6. Sky Full of Elephants
7. Blood Slaves
8. Reel
9. We Refuse
10. Concrete Rose

#BooksofBlueSky
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Now my most favorite lines are "thank you/gracias for surrendering the past tense/ of your life so that I might conjugate myself here/in the present of this country" (lines 29-31). Those are words I wish to tell my parents one day due to them giving up their life in Mexico to be able to create my life here in the US. They gave me more than what they ever had growing up and I will always be forever grateful.

Grateful to @poetrichardblanco.bsky.social for “My Father in English.”

As a Texas teacher in 2025, exposing students to stories of folks who made sacrifices that will impact generations of their family feels especially important.

(Shared with permission from the student)

Nikki Giovanni: the New book cover

I feel like I’ve been drowning lately; there are fewer and fewer pockets of air.

So when @msespo.bsky.social asked if she could send me this book, I was touched and grateful. Both Christine and Nikki Giovanni are pockets of air. 💛

"You think your pain and heartbreak are unprecedented in the world, but then you read." ― James Baldwin

I would love it if I could hit my goal of 500 paid subscribers by the Rapture Tuesday. So go ahead and click the link. Come invest in REAL authors who are using their voices to challenge the way we see the world.

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Fighting the Demon of Colonization Within: A Testimony of Survival, Spirit, and the Sacred Reclamation of Self There comes a time when the weight of silence becomes unbearable. When your own body, soaked in years of trauma, grief, erasure, and survival, begins to hum with the static of ancestral truth trying t...

Read my latest article, "Fighting the Demon of Colonization Within: A Testimony of Survival, Spirit, and the Sacred Reclamation of Self": breezeharper.com/fighting-the...

#fear #trauma #colonization #reclamation #survival #freedom

yes and we’re

not waiting 😉 ✨

In the feedback on my most recent grad school assignment, my professor said, “your voice is clear; I hear your heart and passion,” and referred to me as an “emerging doctoral scholar.”

Nobody can tell me anything for the next 7-10 business days.

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

they might say you’re a dreamer
but you’re not the only one…

This is why we exist.

Follow for posts of more stories that need to be told — books, music, films, and updates from underrepresented Creators 👋🏾

Preorder at BreezeHarper.com/books

The Dragon Comes at Night
by @breezeharper.com
arriving in 2025 via @blackzephyrpub.bsky.social

First of a series.
First of a new genre: #MenoFantasy

#fantasy #fantasybook #newbook #booksky #BlackSky #BlackBookSky #BlackAuthor #BlackWriter #menopause #dragon

My grandma and my aunt.

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To Jamyla Bolden of Ferguson, Missouri Naomi Shihab Nye 1 Fifty years before you did your homework in Ferguson 2 we did our homework in Ferguson, thinking life was fair. 3 If we didn't do our homework we might get a U— Unsatisfactory. 4 Your dad says you didn't even get to see the rest of the world yet. 5 I've seen too much of the world and don't know 6 how to absorb this-a girl shot through a wall—U! U! U! 7 I'd give you some of my years if I could-you should not 8 have died that night-there was absolutely no reason 9 for you to die. I'd like to be standing in a sprinkler with you, 10 the way we used to do, kids before air conditioning, 11 safe with our friends in the drenching of cool, 12 safe with our shrieks and summer shorts and happy hair, 13 where can we go without thinking of you now? 14 Did you know there was a time Ferguson was all a farm? 15 It fed St. Louis...giant meadows of corn, sweet potatoes, 16 laden blackberry bushes, perfect tomatoes in crates, 17 and everything was shovels and hoes, and each life, 18 even the little tendril of a vine, mattered, 19 and you did your homework and got an S for Satisfactory, 20 Super, instead of the S of Sorrow now stamped on our hands. Lines 14-18 highlighted

The first times I read this poem, I paid little attention to the description of Ferguson. The last few years; I’ve been thinking about planting seeds and what grows when you do. Ferguson is a space that cultivates life & growth, & also death + violence.

It’s the juxtaposition, man.

#PoemADayJuly

When I teach this poem, it’s always really visceral, the juxtaposition between innocence, rural ease, and carefree life and death and destruction. My students talk about how they feel like they’re always once second away from the end of their childhood.

#PoemADayJuly

We just recorded our ⁨@WritingWhileBlackPodcast⁩ chat w/author @eddiedeewrites.bsky.social / theaffinitysaga.com

Can't wait to listen when it goes live.

If you are not subscribe to the #WritingWhileBlack podcast on here or on Spotify, you missing out. Go on and get to listening! 😁

#blackbooks

DARVO, Gaslighting, and the Queer Silence: How "Nina’s Whisper" Confronts LGBTQ Intimate Partner Violence Book Review: Nina’s Whisper by Sheena C. Howard A Decolonial Lens on Intimate Partner Violence and the DARVO Playbook

DARVO, Gaslighting, and the Queer Silence: How "Nina’s Whisper" Confronts LGBTQ Intimate Partner Violence

Book Review: Nina’s Whisper by @drsheenahoward.bsky.social

A Decolonial Lens on Intimate Partner Violence and the DARVO Playbook

breezeharper.com/darvo-gaslig...

#BookSky #BlackBookSky

✊Happy Juneteenth, everyone!  We’re celebrating by spotlighting incredible Black authors
📚 Wake by Rebecca Hall
📚 Blood At the Root by @itsladarrion.bsky.social
📚 The Reformatory by @tananarivedue.bsky.social
📚 Kindred Graphic Novel by

@abramscomicarts.bsky.social
@simonandschuster.bsky.social

Bindery Books | GIVEAWAY: Signed copies of The Blood Gi... Dismantling systems of oppression one book at a time.

To enter this giveaway, I asked people to drop their favorite Black FMC. YALL!!! The book Recs 😍 Go check them out. And lemme tell you, the breehive showed up for sure 🤣🤣

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[PREORDER] *SIGNED* Positive Obsession: The Life and Times of Octavia E. Butler by Susana M. Morris [INVENTORY NOTICE]: Orders including this title will ship between 08-19-2025 AND 08-27-2025 after the 08-19-2025 publication date. A magnificent cultural biography that charts the life of one of our g...

What a great Indie Bookstore Day to pre-order a SIGNED copy of my former colleague @susanamorris.bsky.social long-waited book on Octavia Butler, POSITIVE OBSESSION, from @sistahscifi.bsky.social !

Life tip: plot twists have *nothing* on time-travelers.

Or is it …everything? 🤔

#BookSky #plottwist

"Women of Afrofuturism" is at SFO Today I've been feeling especially optimistic and creative. One reason: I slept really well last night. I'm grateful for that! Another reason: on my way to Los Angeles I passed through the San Franci...

So many feelings! My writing inspiration is a lot bigger than my free time today. I hope to go more in depth soon.

Also: Check out "Women of Afrofuturism" at the @sfomuseum.bsky.social

breezeharper.com/women-of-afr...

#Afrofuturism #SFOMuseum #SFO #SF #SFevents #events #museums #museumsky

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"Black indie authors and publishers to pay attention to
- Amanda Weaver -- www.amandaweavernovels.com

- Antoine Bandele -- www.antoinebandele.com

- Deston Munden -- linktr.ee/AuthorDJMunden

- Row House Publishing -- www.rowhousepublishing.com

- E.A. Noble -- eanoble.substack.com
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