M Shelly Conner

Excited to be moderating a panel at #DallasLiteraryFestival with @deeshaphilyaw.bsky.social Renee Simms and Latoya Watkins.
Also already fangirling to catch festival headliner @tomiadeyemi.bsky.social
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It'll definitely turn up now.

Ava DuVernay

#AskAnAuthor
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My novel available in hardcover, paperback, ebook and audiobook.

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

Don’t lose hope. Remember, Watergate took over two years to fully unravel from the initial break-in to Nixon’s resignation. Just like then and now, Americans are losing faith in their government. We are documenting every illegal action and will hold this administration and Elon Musk accountable.

Maryland National Guard out of Frederick Douglass parade after DoD order Strict guidance from the national defense department crushed plans for a parade held in honor of Frederick Douglass’ 207th birthday because it was being held during Black History Month.

“The Maryland National Guard must decline events which celebrates individuals based all or in part on immutable characteristics,” the memo said.

Douglass was an abolitionist, suffragist, orator and author. That’s what we celebrate him. Let’s be clear: This bars celebrating him because he was Black.

Join 50501 in a National Day of Action on Monday, February 17th. We are reclaiming President's Day - a day that is supposed to be celebrating the Presidency. Unite to limit executive overreach. Find your protest at https://buff.ly/417VjtT, or create one.

The 50501 Movement has planned protests at all 50 state capitols and the U.S. Capitol on Presidents’ Day at noon. While mainstream media isn’t covering it, many YouTubers have stepped up to provide coverage.

Simply Beautiful by Al Green but I'll listen to any rendition.

Tuberculosis killed 1/4th of Europe not too long ago. We are now in the largest TB outbreak in U.S. history. A man who doesnt believe in vaccines is now the head of our country’s public health.

The U.S. ERADICATED measles 25 years ago. It’s now surging.

RFK Jr. called it fake.

Adoption Noire has been doing work to redress this by representing Black hoping to adopt couples. But there's still a fair amount of anti-LGBTQ from the birth mothers. We're going through DCFS now.

It can be extremely cost prohibitive. There also is a narrative given to birth moms that encourages the idea that the best financial placement for their child is with a white or interracial couple. I've seen this in the "preference sheets" as well as "traditional family only" which excludes same-sex

My wife & I are currently entering the foster/adoption process. As two Black queer women in the south, private adoption wasn't an option. Many agencies don't work with same-sex couples. There's many more adoption consultants, high price marketing firms. This is how they purchase Black babies.

One of our supporters shared this with us—people are getting creative tonight!

I don't trash other authors. I do trash folk who talk reckless about Black women.
If that person also happens to have written some books...🤷🏾‍♀️
"College educated Black women read more than all other groups."
#blacksky #bvm #blackskyover40 #authors #writers #writingcommunity
#blackwomen

Sucks...cause it took me a while to "trust" Google docs. Now I'm all in with Docs, Slides, Drive, etc.

So your Word & Google docs can be scraped to train AI?
I've been using Living Writer (pricey) for my writing but all my teaching notes, lectures, etc are housed in Google. I even use Classroom as my main platform.
Guess part of my sabbatical will be to disengage Google.
#writingcommunity

Omar Tyree saying Black women don't swim because they don't wanna mess up hair and nails...
But not knowing the history of racist policies around public swimming pools is ignorant AF.
Pictured: the author and her swimming pool on her Arkansas homestead
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When negotiating my publishing contract I insisted on:
1)A Black woman editor
2)A Black woman's art as cover design
3)A Black woman as audiobook narrator.
This is how we hold the door open. My book got work for 3 Black women. #bvm #booksky #authors #blacksky #writers

I live in Arkansas now. There's Jazzercise, Arby's and a JC Penny in my town.
The gays are a bit in...arrears. 😏

And brunches.

"Hello, little enemy."

@nkjemisin.bsky.social gone Parable of the Sower prophecy on us.

It's like Whitney Houston and Luther made singing look effortless.
But then you pick up that karaoke mic...

I like the analogy cause it doesn't mean don't sing.
It just means recognize the skill & work it takes to make it a profession.
#writers #bvm #booksky #authors

This is one of the main functions of art.
Sustaining life especially in dismal times.
It's also why art by the disenfranchised (i.e. Black, queer ME) is inherently political. My fiction tells the stories of people this current administration is fervently trying to erase.

Why is the USA the only country in the world with bird flu H5N1 ripping through cattle herds?

Because in the United States, it’s legal to feed chicken shit to cattle.

That’s why. That’s literally the reason

www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

Definitely why we purchased our 15 acre homestead back in 2020. Here is where we live self-sustainably and build generational security.

Fight #dystopiaUSA

The Treasury Department right now. People are turning out against Musk and DOGE staging a takeover of the Treasury’s payment system. This crowd is big. The whole block is packed. “Lock him up,” everyone yells.

Unmasked: Musk’s Secret DOGE Goon Squad—Who Are All Under 26 Elon Musk’s team of young DOGE disruptors have been unmasked, much to the ire of the billionaire and other MAGA figures. One is a 19-year-old college freshman and heir to a popcorn fortune. Another wa...

Daily Beast reports Gavin Kliger's father is an attorney for Experian (I presume in-house attorney)
www.yahoo.com/news/doge-mu...