Rashid Darden

After six years, I finally got a trick-or-treater!

I am now at the age and place in life where I cry when people win game shows.

AncestryDNA updates are out!

Several things are new for me: East Midlands (UK) DNA on my mother's side and Scottish DNA on my father's side.

I'm still roughly a third Nigerian, a third European, and a third other African ethnic groups.

One HUNDRED percent BLACK, in case you were pondering.

A mural of George Floyd with angel wings and text stylized as a halo: "Forever breathing in our hearts."

No one's humanity is up for debate. There is God in all of us.

Today, I remember George Floyd. He was born on this day in 1973.

He should still be here.

Institutionalized Racism: A Syllabus
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I can't be the only person who calls upon the Goblin King to come take me away from here, right?

Ayyyyeee!!!

Yes! @rashidipedia.bsky.social

Aye! It's me!!! Thanks, friend!

Sometimes I think about the white guys who performed spoken word poetry in the late 90s, early 00s, and wonder where they are now and who they voted for.

Rashid Darden's remarkable and unique vision of Black Quakerism is now available for thee to enjoy

Thank you so much!

“With A Peculiar Legacy, @rashidipedia.bsky.social shows that he is at the top of his writing game. Indeed, a spectacular novel.” Frederick Smith, author, One and Done.

#BookSky #BlackBookSky #QueerBookSky #NewBooks

FYI: My novel is out today! amzn.to/42JeESJ

Book cover of Rashid Darden’s forthcoming novel, A Peculiar Legacy. The book cover is brown and has four Polaroid photos of Black men.

I had the honor of reading and providing a blurb for A Peculiar Legacy, the forthcoming novel by Rashid Darden (@rashidipedia.bsky.social). It’s out 4/15/25. I hope you pre-order today. My blurb in next/attached message.

www.rashiddarden.com/book/a-pecul...

#BookSky #BlackBookSky #AuthorSky

Introduce yourself as a Black TV character #BlackSkyOver30 #Blacksky

Without downloading any new pics, where are you mentally?

RIP TikTok. The ultimate example of the olds not getting it.

It is especially ironic that we're freaking out about a foreign owned social network when we're letting untrustworthy figures straight through the door over here

I don't want to see it either, but let's just say I need some vole predators in my neighborhood.

Live your life so that when you die, some joyless schmuck is annoyed that his entire social media feed is a wall of people's posts talking about how much you and your work meant to them

If you’re looking for random fun things on YouTube I recommend searching “soap slaps.” Just compilations from various soap operas over the years where people are getting slapped.

Six years ago today, my student Davane Williams died. He existed.

Today, A Peculiar Legacy exists. I am proud to reveal its cover.

www.rashiddarden.com/book/a-pecul...

Thank you, Davane, for being.

If Anita Bryant only just died, I wonder who it was that died a few years ago that I thought was Anita Bryant.

I be forgetting about this app. Sorry y'all.

Quietly: same

In honor of Wicked, sing your fraternity or sorority song this morning.

Add the battle cry from Defying Gravity at the end.

Thank me later.

#BattleCry
#Wicked
#DefyingGravity

I had dental work done today.

I have been having significant dental problems for about a year and now, finally, it's almost over.

My body is tired. So many people have been in my mouth.

Reminds me of 1999. 🤠

These are selfies of me just before my friend's wedding last weekend.

The outfit is called an agbada. Agbada is Yoruba for "many people will think you're the wedding officiant."

book Mary W Shelley He sprang from the cabin window as he said this upon th ice raft which lay close to the vessel. He was soon borne away by the waves and lost in darkness and distance. Written in pen is As he drifted away I could just make out his final words "its ok if you call me 'Frankenstein' instead of 'Frankenstein's Monster' I really don't mind" The end

Thank ya!

Coming to a new app makes me feel like a single mom in a 70s/80s sitcom starting over in a new town.

Alice.

I'm Alice.