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I’m excited to find new-to-me trans and nonbinary authors.

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I had to explain to managers at work that I will probably be unable to attend GenCon for the next several years, between the TSA crackdowns and the federal prohibition against transgender bathroom access (affecting airports).

Image: At the top of this image there is a picture of a tree lined street filled with American flags down its length Text: To be honest I’m not surprised by the turn The States has taken toward open unchecked nationalist racism, and you know why? The flags. It's the American flags hanging everywhere, you know that’s not normal right? You’re not going to sleep wondering which country it is in which you’re living. You went to bed in Texas, you're waking up in Texas - unless you’re brown and ICE has targeted you and your family in which case who knows where the black site they’re going to keep you in where they separate you from your kids before deportation is located But like I don’t drive down an average suburban street in Australia to see hundreds of houses with Australian flags hanging out the front, and then half of those homes having a super racist version of the Australian flag that celebrates a time we owned human beings from another country and made them do all of the work for us for free while we took all the profits then called them lazy and pretended we didn’t do it but wish we could do it again

Those American flags may be made in China but the racism is homegrown

The Drowning House by Cherie Priest (@cheriepriest.com)
is a haunted house tale. I appreciated the rounded, imperfect female leader. Priest made a relatable character & a friendship bond btwn a woman & a man by making them flawed & whole.

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Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Ensures the Enforcement of Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 65(c) ENSURING ACCOUNTABILITY IN FEDERAL COURTS: Today, President Donald J. Trump signed a memorandum directing federal agencies to enforce a rule mandating

The best way to stop losing in court is to make the courts inaccessible in the first place.

Open @joekatz45.bsky.social’s post to find email addresses and phone numbers for these compliant, racist Democrats who voted in favor of the Republican’s censure of Representative Al Green.

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Friends tried to warn me about how much I was working for a particular company. A 60-hour week was standard, and I often clocked 80 - 100 hour weeks during crunch time.

I wasn’t able to hear them. I had to leave tech in 2019 because I was overwhelmed. I’m still not able to work without panicking.

It seems PubMed has disappeared. This is the digital equivalent of burning a library.

What I’m doing: I’m reading authors whom I haven’t read much or at all before because algorithms don’t suggest them to me. I had a typical white girl public education that emphasized white men.

I did this a few years ago to great effect.

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Heal quickly and well. Eek!

Kai Ashanti Wilson’s short story, The Devil in America, is one I’ll read again. I loved Easter’s “angels.” The depth of loss that even recently-gained freedom can’t replace can never be measured.

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Our country elected children in their “terrible-twos.” These particular children have the power to threaten Ukraine with World War III while demanding that Zelenskyy say thank you (previous thank yous don’t count) and kiss the ring of Putin on Trump’s hand.

3/3 (Continued from Baldwin’s Nothing Personal)

“I take this to be, as I say, the American situation in relief, the root of our unadmitted sorrow, and the very key to our crisis.”

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2/3

A quote from Baldwin’s Nothing Personal that sums up much of the essay:

“To be locked in the past means, in effect, that no one has a past, since one can never assess it, or use it: and if one cannot use the past, one cannot function in the present, and so one can never be free.

1/3
James Baldwin’s essay, Nothing Personal, is achingly relevant to the reality we experience today. We’re locked in our past, which we have altered from its reality.

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Thank you to @jenniferbrozek.bsky.social for posting about this book!

Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon by Wolfe Talabi (@wtalabi.bsky.social) has Yoruban deities formed into corporations while exploring the effects of colonialism and stolen artifacts. I loved the setting and am now learning more about the deities.

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I must have this now!

5/4 (Yeah, I miscounted)

Thanks very much, @imaniperry.bsky.social, for such a touching and thoughtful book. I heard your recent NPR interview and plan to add Black in Blues: How a Color Tells the Story of My People to my year of #2025withoutstraightwhitecisgenderedmaleauthors.

4/4 She ends in Cuba. A refugee talks abt when she & a friend went clubbing. The taxi refused to take them home. The friend insisted. The driver produced a machete. “Her friend was unfazed. ‘Motherfucker, I said take us home.’”

I love this book

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3/4 “Had these graves not been seen, daily, over generations had we not been witnesses to them, I do not know how it would have been possible to sustain hope, or at least, to pretend to.”

Perry doesn’t ask why Black people didn’t leave the South. More compellingly, she asks: why Black people stayed

2/4 She writes like a storyteller, giving her reflections the immediacy of life. Here are a pair of quotes that made me really focus my attention:

“Why did Black folks stay (in the South)? The answer is home. If everyone had departed, no one would have been left to tend the ancestors’ graves.”

1/4 This afternoon, I finished Imani Perry’s South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation.

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I’m in California. I just now bought your book and am looking forward to reading it after I finish my current book.

I love these. Not gonna get sick of them anytime soon.

I imagine you after too surgery with a very happy face. The Hooters tank top is within you.

this is such a great idea 👇👇👇