@twinfreyharris.bsky.social
Writer: NYT, Atlantic, more. Author: The Sisters Are Alright, Dear Black Girl, and a Black Woman's Guide to Getting Free. Yogi. Reiki master. Lover of humanity. Femme stan. TamaraWinfreyHarris.com
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President Trump has promised a “colorblind and merit-based” society, while also aligning himself with those who are brandishing the term DEI as a catchall for discrimination against white people, and using it as a pejorative to attack nonwhite and female leaders as unqualified for their positions.
You know that I’ve been working to assemble my list of trusted media sources. Perhaps Wired is one.
Ohhh, this is a good one!
I would add The Nation, too.
What media outlets and journalists do you consider reliable sources of information?
I just discovered commonplace books and I am obsessed. Anyone else do this?
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I wrote this eight years ago. Being an ally requires action. Many folks who claim to support marginalized people emphatically do not.
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Friend! I’ve missed you! ❤️
Do not ask that women of color choose one of our identities to fight for first. Freedom is wholeness. We get to be our whole selves. Our whole selves deserve to be free.
Heeeyyyyyy! ::waves::
I attended a performance by poet Tasha Jones. At a point in the show she stands in front of a screen baring the names of 100 murdered Black people. Trayvon. Tamir. Breana. The Emmanuel nine. It is a gut punch realizing how quickly America grew bored of pretending to care about racism or Black death.
My first book's sales were buoyed by blogs and mainstream media, while my second gained traction through Bookstagram. I felt adrift on my third release last year and have no clue what book promotion may look like moving forward. And I say this as someone with 25+ years of marketing experience.
That is true. But I am so concerned with how these platforms are being used as tools of misinformation and manipulation. I am uncertain whether I can spread enough truth and hope to beat the algorithm. At what point, by maintaining an account, am I just abetting the thing that is destroying us?
I ditched X and TikTok. My gut tells me to divest from Meta, too. How do I keep connections with amazing people that I cannot interact with in person regularly? As an author, what do book promotion and a writer's platform look like w/out supportive mainstream media and post-Twitter, IG, and TikTok?
On this dark day it's crucial to follow #feminist journalists, activists, scholars, artists, and comics who help us understand our structural problems and offer solutions--roadmaps toward freedom, justice.
@veronicaeye.bsky.social & I have you covered! We've worked with or vouch for all #writers 👇
Access the State of Women in Central Indiana Report to learn more about the vulnerability of Hoosier women.
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I am not shocked, just angry that we still have to deal with this.
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Another gift guide! Cool to see my latest book in the IBJ Executive Holiday Gift Guide. Same offer as yesterday: If you snag a copy of any of my books for your friends in the C-Suite, I’m happy to sign them (local) or mail a bookplate.
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Yes, ma’am!
I am so honored to be included in the Mirror Indy 2024 Gift Guide. If you decide to grab a copy of A Black Woman's Guide to Getting Free as a gift, I'm happy to sign it (locally) or send you a bookplate.
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After years of enjoying social media, it feels like someplace I'd rather not be. (Bluesky aside.) But I am conflicted. As an author, social media feels like a space where I MUST be.
I'm terrified by the rise of organized disinformation. Increasingly, it feels like most public communication is less about informing and engaging and more about inciting, inflaming and manipulating. What does it look like to reject this? What do we avoid? What do we support?
Excited to hold my contributor copy in my hands!! Many thanks to Rebecca Carroll for inviting me to contribute an introduction to Nikki Giovanni’s work and connect it with 🔭
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