Mx. Faylita Hicks

Applications for @storystudiochicago.bsky.social's, sixth annual StoryBoard conference are now OPEN! Spend a week studying with one of these 8 amazing instructors -- either in-person or online -- in August. Apply are here:
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Fall reading from @haymarketbooks.org:

Azadi, Arundhati Roy
Revolution Today, Susan Buck-Morss
A Map of My Want,
@mxfaylitahicks.bsky.social

At some point, I became one of those people who gets excited when a new data report drops. I literally just got a glass of water, some snacks, and snuggled in place to read a new report related to my research. What is this?!

Thank you! 🙏🏾

Congrats to Acre author @mxfaylitahicks.bsky.social! 🎉🎉🎉

Thank you! Still dancing around!

Love to see it! 🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾

Thank you! 🙏🏾

Thank you!

I did a thing! My second poetry collection, A MAP OF MY WANT (@haymarketbooks) won the Midwest Book Award for Poetry!

I know it’s been a minute. Slowly but surely making my way back over here!

Lit 50 2025: Institutions, Advocates and Programmers | Newcity Lit Forty years ago, the first Printers Row Lit Fest was staged in the canyon between the old printing houses on Dearborn Street. To commemorate these forty years and to honor our literary community, we a...

Delighted to see two Acre authors celebrated for their contributions to literary Chicago! Congrats @thejs3.bsky.social (DEFIANT ACTS) and @mxfaylitahicks.bsky.social (HOODWITCH)! 🎉🎉🎉
lit.newcity.com/2025/06/04/l...

So excited to tell you about Ragdale’s annual fundraiser, More Than a Novel Affair, which I co-curated… It’s two days: Friday May 16 and Saturday May 17. If you’re in Chicago, FRIDAY’S event is more convenient: It’ll be at the Newberry Library (in partnership with @storystudiochicago.bsky.social) 🧵

It features five seriously amazing authors (@kazimali.bsky.social, @jamiattenberg.bsky.social, Xochitl Gonzalez, Chigozie Obioma, and Claire Lombardo). They’ll be in conversation—moderated by the wonderful @mxfaylitahicks.bsky.social—about making space for art and finding your voice.

You hussle your whole life looking for a way into the light only to find yourself already glowing.

I hope you keep reaching—your time is coming. I promise.

I’m not at AWP this year but I’m internet lurking during my trip to NYC. 👀

Thank you! 🙏🏾

Congratulations to Acre author @mxfaylitahicks.bsky.social (HOODWITCH)! 🎉🎉🎉

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Leaning all the way into spirit’s gift of transformation, today!

Grace and gratitude to the teams at The Mellon Foundation and @haymarketbooks.org.

Grace and gratitude to my readers.

Grace and gratitude to my people and my people’s people.

May the light find us always.

Applications for @storystudiochicago.bsky.social's, sixth annual StoryBoard conference are now OPEN! Spend a week studying with one of these 8 amazing instructors -- either in-person or online -- in August. Apply are here:
www.storystudiochicago.org/storyboard-c...

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"A screenshot of an NBC News article headline. The headline reads: 'Texas bill would make identifying as transgender a felony punishable by jail.' Below the headline, a subtext states: 'The bill, while unlikely to pass, highlights the increasing extremism of legislation targeting trans people, especially in Texas, in recent years.' The NBC News logo is visible at the top, along with a navigation bar that includes a 'WATCH' button and a user profile icon."

I need y'all to sit with this headline and understand what is being done to our community. They're trying to criminalize our very existence.

This is a campaign of eradication.

www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/rcna...

My millennial lover archetype according to the nostalgic trip I just went on via YouTube:

1/3 Travie McCoy
1/3 Lauryn Hill
1/3 Vin Diesel

Explains the last 20 years. 🤣🫠

As an astro-spiritualist, I’m oddly hopeful. I’ve documented signs of the nation’s fall for years, so this moment doesn’t surprise me.

What does surprise me is this sudden knowing that after we bring a stop to the oligarchy—we could be the ones to construct a new and more empathetic constitution.

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Just secured my first solo art exhibition. Coming to Chicago Summer 2026.
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An American flag built on the backs of Black people...

Black music protesting white political terror in registers they never hear; reminiscent of ancestral spirituals embedded with instructions for runaways

All this in New Orleans... What a moment

Yes! Love this!