Steven Underwood
@blaqueword.bsky.social
He/him | Blerd, Author... Blerduthor? | Author of Forever for the Culture (Beacon) and Sundiata (Feiwal & Friends/Macmillan) | stevenunderwoodjr(at)blaqueword(dot)com
Everyone pretended to read White Fragility in 2019 but can't act like the words sunk in?
A Black woman observing Hal Jordan was racist for that line and behavior is really as plain as a bird noting a cat just purred. Because that line was a racist macroaggression. Not micro. That shit was overt and obnoxious.
And when i say i dont care about final boys in horror, I dont mean the Hyper Competent Black boys who survived by saying fuck alluvthat kiddy shit
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Someone show me their writers personal statement for Residencies and Grants. 🥴
Me and that Mouse have a shared fondness for stories.
Threads is interesting bc these tik tok book reviewers will cuss you and your mother out (not in a review, just casually on the tl) then ask why they don't get any industry support when they pivot to being authors.
The way I realized Zeus Network and Dropout are using the exact same streaming platform/layout, but I have no one to talk to ab it lmaoooo
I think Facebook does this as well, except it effects Republicans more because the pro GOP content is all slop now. It helps even more that Facebook has auto-reply Ai. The volume you can fight with strangers using utter nonsense is mind melting, and the content keeps flowing.
Jason Koebler@jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 2w ago“X’s algorithm learns what you hate and shows you more of it, according to a new study just published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences” www.404media.co/xs-algorithm...
A crime duo comedy featuring a pre-Hellfire Emma Frost and post-Brotherhood Mystique as they take over New York City in the 1980s as sex working scammers looking for their big break.
Are there any Project or Program coordinators looking for Black writers to support panels or talks celebrating the 100 year anniversary of “Fire!! A Quarterly Devoted to the Younger Negro Artists”?
To the Black Authors who got a great book deal during the DEI Summer just to be mistreated by the Publisher now that Diversity, Black Voices and DEI is no longer en vogue...
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I take disrespect to Black writers in any industry personally. Dont dap me up.
An album of Greek Epics from travis scott >>>
ɪᴍᴍᴀɴᴜᴇʟ ᴋᴜɴᴛ@soberthots.blacksky.app · 3w agoi wouldn’t be mad if travis scott did a rock inspired album.
Painfully aware of how proud and arrogant and stubborn I am. I really try hard not to wound the people I love though
My writing advice ima give when its my turn on the panel circuit will be Never be so afraid of taking an L that you take a bigger one, truly.
Sprinkling all the romance and lovey dovey on yall!
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Steven Underwood@blaqueword.bsky.social · last mo.Too early to speak 🤭
Hot take but the people who still complain about the breathing styles being illusions in Demon Slayer genuinely don't get the series' arguement.