@vashtiharrison.bsky.social
Author-Illustrator based in Brooklyn
Join me for a signing at #alaac25 on Monday! @lbschool.bsky.social
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The neighborhood is getting ready for tomorrow
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Peony season
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Incredibly talented author & illustrator @vashtiharrison.bsky.social will be joining us this week to talk about her Caldecott Medal winning book, Big. We can't wait!! This powerful picture book is a must read. On a scale of 1-10, how excited are you? We are off the charts at 11!
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What a huge honor! Big was included in Kirkus Reviews list of Best Books of the 21st Century (so far) www.kirkusreviews.com/fiction/best...
02.04.2025 17:31 β π 19 π 0 π¬ 0 π 1didnβt we used to have a word for this
30.03.2025 20:14 β π 3111 π 733 π¬ 29 π 26Starting at 10:30!
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Join me for a free virtual event Tomorrow! Iβll be part of The Society of Illustrators Virtual Saturday Stories! Iβll do a live reading and drawing workshop! Register here: societyillustrators.org/event/virtua...
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Join me for a free virtual event Tomorrow! Iβll be part of The Society of Illustrators Virtual Saturday Stories! Iβll do a live reading and drawing workshop! Register here: societyillustrators.org/event/virtua...
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Join me for a virtual storytime and art workshop this Saturday with the Society of Illustrators! Free to register: societyillustrators.org/event/virtua...
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Posca party
16.03.2025 05:26 β π 29 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Hey #kidlit, friendly reminder that tomorrow is #kidlitartpostcard! Last month we set a record on Bluesky with 413 posts.
Take care to use the right hashtag so your work can be found.
Iβm planning to scroll the hashtag with @flashes.blue this time around!
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Cancelling @joyannreid.bsky.social means the door she held open for the next generation of Black voices will slam shut. Without her, the next her, won't get platformed by white media. That, of course, is why white media pushed her out.
My latest in @thenation.com
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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Heart. Hair. Hands. #bhm days 4,5 and 6.
Black History Month might need to last all year for me to do these posts, but Iβm ok w/that. Weβre gonna need some timeline cleanses over the next couple months. Take a break from doomscrolling and look at these cuties inspired by my recent school visits.
El Capitan displays a massive American flag upside downβthe traditional signal of distress or extreme emergency.
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New MSNBC Bloodbath of Non-White Anchors After Joy Reid Forced Out
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2/19: MSNBC celebrates its NAACP Image Award and Joy Reidβs book Medgar & Myrlie.
2/22: Trump calls MSNBC a βthreat to democracyβ after NBCUniversalβs lawsuit settlement.
2/23: Joy Reid ( @joyannreid.bsky.social ) canceled.
When Trump sent the heat, @MSNBC.com bent the kneeβAGAIN!
A tweet by Michael McFaul (@McFaul) that reads: "In 2012, when I was the US ambassador to Russia, Putin shut down USAID inside Russia. Why? Because their work supported free markets, democracy, human rights β ie causes that threatened Putin's dictatorship. Shutting down USAID is exactly what autocrats all over the world want."
Putin is full out celebrating our idiocy.
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Hope Island #bhm day 2
#hope #blackhistorymonth
Still working on updating the list, thank you for your suggestions!
If you have some more prompt suggestions please leave some in the comments and Iβll finish the list and maybe find a more specific hashtag.
02.02.2025 08:27 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0So maybe in some parts of my life Iβll be staying angry and raising Hell, here Iβll be trying to put the H in #BHM and celebrating Black History and Heritage. Hope youβll join me.
Iβll try to go live when I can to make some art every day. Hopefully.
We are fighting tyranny, fascism. authoritarianism on top of humanitarian, social and climate crises. Itβs too many things. Iβm angry. Iβm scared. Iβm overwhelmed. But Iβm not Hopeless. My art has to be Hopeful. It has to have Heart. I want it to Help and Heal.
02.02.2025 08:27 β π 11 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Iβm up late thinking about this. For #BHM this year I wanted to do another drawing challenge. 8 years ago my Black History Month drawings celebrating Black Women were an attempt at joy in the face of patriarchy and racism. This time is different.
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02.02.2025 08:27 β π 140 π 46 π¬ 2 π 1I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world.
Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. Itβs not intellectually superior. Itβs the virus theyβre trying to infect us with. NO
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30.01.2025 22:09 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Thank you!
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