Shanna "Read Black Fantasy" Miles

5 things to do this Thanksgiving Week for self-care & sanity
1. Bring a book on Thanksgiving. Gives you something to talk about & a means of escape
2. Get to the grocery store today.
3. Wear a mask if you've got a sniffle
4. Make a playlist
5. Drop your old decor at Goodwill

Anyone can be a colonizer.

I'm lost without you
And there's no letting go
So let me be the first to say
I'm lost without you
… So don't ever go
Go away
'said don't ever go away

And did die with his family waiting on him to make amends

Literary Dads who don’t get enough smoke:

Mr. Bennett (Pride & Prejudice). Sweet and lazy. Your only job is to get these girls an education and you failed.

Walter Lee (A Raisin the the Sun): I guarantee you he eventually lost the family home. He learned nothing in the ordeal.

No. There’s been a strong boomerang back to gender roles in larger society. Trad wives and incel culture trickle down. YA is dominated by female authors and “adventure/ thriller books like THE HUNGER GAMES have female leads so all the ground won’t be lost.

No longer. It’s noticeable.

The world hasn’t been right since the muppets stopped doing interviews on late night television

Are horse 🐎 girls still a thing?
Horse posters are conspicuously absent at the school book fair.

Wow! Jesse Welles performed his song “Join ICE” on the Colbert Show last night. 🏆

Cheaper than a value meal with longer satisfaction. You’re winning

🎅🏻ALERT
#WICKED by Gregory Maguire is NOT suitable for kids. We're talking bestiality, dark imagery, assault (of all kinds), etc.

However you CAN get into Dorothy Must Die by Danielle Paige. It's a Wizard of Oz retelling written for teens.
Get it wherever you like to buy books
tinyurl.com/mwrwt3j5

Legendary

Well, if you’re gonna be a piggy, be a Miss Piggy. Loud, proud and fly!

Every day I'm talking to a kid and they're saying:

"I don't want to go to college."

and every day I have to reply

"College may not be for everybody, but you, personally, need to go to college."

The CIA, the Devil, and Kris Jenner stay busy.

MAGA really doesn’t have even a cursory knowledge of Black people. Nikki Minaj as UN representative? Winsom Earl-Sears?

Brendan Carr, the head of the FCC, has “a knack for pulling the strings of power in ways that escape public scrutiny,” Gilad Edelman reports. Carr's goal isn’t to tell networks what to air and whom to fire—it’s to get to the point where he doesn’t have to. theatln.tc/khgmAqeL

We need to remove medicine from the 'good student' acceptable list (others being law and engineering).
We've got too many super studiers in rooms where 1/2 the job is compassion.

Bad takes from artists are going to increase ten fold.
US History on its own is bereft of the contributions of Black people. Now imagine someone getting straight C's, or worse, in school from K-12.
Remember that anti-Critical Race Theory laws were passed.
Remember that they closed school libraries.

Honestly

It’s getting bad for me but I don’t have the spoons to add more. God willing, next year.

This is why I don’t believe people when they say their MAGA friends/family are really smart but…
Yes, they aren’t stupid. They’re racist or sexist or both.
They weren’t duped. There is an echo chamber but they choose it bc they like the sound.

No one tells you that one day, around 40, your body will start to ache & the doc, who you barely like bc no one since your pediatrician has been genuinely nice, will shrug his shoulders & tell you to exercise. But how can you exercise when your body hurts? And then they’ll prescribe antidepressants

You know what to do!

#blackbooksky #blacksky #boosky #romancelandia

The Scenes that Don't Make It Killing Your Darlings so the Best Writing Thrives

The 1st chapter of my middle grade series starts w/ an exorcism of a dead boy who fell off a jungle gym.

An earlier draft began at church w/ my boy exorcist freeing a pastor who’s been trapped in the old sanctuary.

We don’t talk enough about the harsh edits.
open.substack.com/pub/shannami...

Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy

5 tips for self care and survival for this week.

1. Give those coats 🧥 to Goodwill before it gets too cold.
2. Soak some beans 🫘. Find a good red beans and rice recipe.
3. Find and angel tree saangeltree.org
4. Change your air filter
5. Solidify those Thanksgiving plans

Because they told the average person that their retirement should be tied to the whims of the stock market. They know we don't know the ends and outs of the market so they just play with the extra cash and line their pockets.

Let's please revisit the high-speed rail conversation.

This is his second term and they don’t even have a rough draft of a plan.