We need voices like @khoreo.bsky.social in the world, and their editorial team is also top notch, friendly and professional. Do have a look and see if you can help out!

Ola | Aleksandra Hill@aleksandrahill.bsky.social · 4w ago

We’re close to the end of our fundraiser and still haven’t met our goal — we need ~$4k in four days. Frankly: I’ve used… a lot of personal funds to keep us afloat over the years between Kickstarters. I now have a child who’ll need daycare. I won’t have enough left over to bridge khōréō’s gaps.

At some point we're going to have to reckon with the fact that part of learning, part of educating yourself, is figuring out how to deal with the friction between yourself and the world at the limits of your knowledge in ways other than retreating from it or making it someone else's problem.

That's enough Death of the Author. It's time for Death of the Audience. Start running fools

I think this requires us to know whether the audience is engaging with the art in good faith. Which I'm not sure is a safe bet when anti-intellectualism is so rampant.

Matt Zoller Seitz@mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 2mo ago

If the "takeaway" of a film is widely misunderstood, who is to blame, the filmmakers or the audience? For instance, if Marines watch Apocalypse Now and cheer the destruction and come away thinking Kilgore and Kurtz are awesome, are they media-illiterate, or did the movie fail in some basic way?

"To Stand, You Must Be Rooted" is a thorny story about Black land ownership, identity, and place by Verdell Walker which is free to read now from Reckoning X: reckoning.press/to-stand-you...

To Stand, You Must be Rooted | Reckoning

“What should we bring Pawpaw for dinner?” I asked Mama. Her bronze urn rested in the passenger’s seat, secured by the seat belt. Her ghost sat in the backseat, wearing the green skirt suit I’d buried ...

reckoning.press

A lot of y’all need diaries.

Congratulations and welcome to the Clarion West Six-Week Workshop Class of 2026! On behalf of the staff, board, and alumni we look forward to celebrating the wild and amazing worlds you create this summer.

I'm excited to announce that I've been selected for Clarion West's Six-Week Workshop this summer! 🎉

There's a quote in here from my Buzzfeed essay that says as much, but I really do blame mass media for this the most. Why are you having guests on your talk show explaining "Gen Z slang" when a 5 sec Google search would immediately call their "expertise" into question. DO YOUR DAMN JOB.

Aftermath@aftermath.site · 4mo ago

That's not what unc means: aftermath.site/unc-aave-afric...

An anthology you DO NOT want to miss! Featuring some of the incredible authors we've been so privileged to publish over this past decade! Please share this post with fans and readers of Black SFF. Guaranteed you will help someone find their next favorite storyteller in these pages!

DaVaun Sanders@davaun.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Finally get to cartwheel about this in public!!! 🔥🔥🔥 A collection from some of the BEST authors in these SFF streets, and a celebration of @fiyahlitmag.bsky.social

Bullying works!

Dr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her)@drsurekhadavies.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Result! Just received from Grammarly: "Hi, Thank you for reaching out. After careful consideration, we have decided to deactivate Expert Review while we reimagine how to make it more useful for customers and more respectful of the experts whose work it surfaces." 1/ 🧪💙📚 🗃 #academicsky

So, to offer more context: When you click "Expert Review" in Grammarly, it feeds your content through an AI and chooses experts based on the subject matter. There's also a prompt at the bottom of the tab that allows you to add additional experts based on specific topics.

Sydnee@sydmt.blacksky.app · 5mo ago

Unfortunately...

This week, the Transgender Healthcare page added 7 new items to the timeline. These include multiple cancellations of gender-affirming care and new policies from the DOJ mandating the forced detransition of inmates. Grim stuff.

Transgender Healthcare: Timeline — Unbreaking

How the administration is breaking the government, and what that means for all of us.

unbreaking.org

It does not matter what the character limit is because I will always run up against it

Let's see if we can raise $10,000 today for red state or national queer orgs. Post proof here in the replies that you donated to a red state or national queer organization and I will share. Who's with me? (I can't donate myself because I'm a journalist who covers these orgs)

Katelyn Burns@katelynburns.com · 5mo ago

like this isn't 2012, there are no national queer rights orgs who are flush with cash. Everyone I speak with is dramatically cutting their budgets. And red state queer orgs are always fighting uphill on a shoestring budget. My challenge to you today is to google a red state queer org and donate.

MAKE AN EMERGENCY DONATION to Trans Continental Pipeline right now. They are a Colorado based org that helps trans people relocate there and they are overwhelmed with requests. CO borders KS, and TCP has the infrastructure to help get people out. GO DONATE. tcpipeline.org

Today we are launching a new intitative of Stand With Minnesota—KeepMNHoused.com, a rent-relief campaign backed with a $1.5 matching fund from the Wilson Foundation. Thousands of MN families are at risk of eviction because of the ICE occupation’s lasting impacts. We can keep them housed.

Let's make it clearer. This week's in-depth briefing from our volunteer collective at @unbreaking.org is on extraordinary acts of courage and decency by ordinary people fighting back against inhumane attacks on their neighbors. unbreaking.org/blog/this-we...

Erin Kissane@kissane.myatproto.social · 6mo ago

I don't know if it's really clear, outside of coverage of Mpls and pockets of organizing elsewhere, that hundreds of thousands of people are actively and at every level of society fighting our government as it abducts and imprisons and torments our neighbors.

The Wright Museums Instagram page is HILARIOUS. Think The Office but it's the staff at a Museum for Black History. Better believe this is on my list of places to visit. Gentle Spades "I'm a veteran"

In this shitty moment I'm grateful to @karenattiah.bsky.social and @resistanceschool.bsky.social for introducing me to "News for All the People," which calls out US media's white supremacist origins and the ways POC have always resisted it. It's essential reading. bookshop.org/p/books/news...

News For All The People: The Epic Story of Race and the American Media

The Epic Story of Race and the American Media

bookshop.org

Lisa Snowden@lisasnowden.bsky.social · 6mo ago

There is no way, in no world, that people stop telling stories about ourselves. Journalism as we all know it is dead and dying but I’m really hopeful we can rebuild something that is truly equitable, illuminating, and clear-eyed about the world that we actually live in.

There is no way, in no world, that people stop telling stories about ourselves. Journalism as we all know it is dead and dying but I’m really hopeful we can rebuild something that is truly equitable, illuminating, and clear-eyed about the world that we actually live in.

If you are able, The Post's union has started a layoff fund for those fired by the world's fourth-richest man today. gofund.me/a310d0286

Donate to Washington Post 2026 layoff fund, organized by Rachel Siegel

On Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2026, The Washington Post laid off hundreds of journalists. We ar… Rachel Siegel needs your support for Washington Post 2026 layoff fund

gofund.me

Without a major investment in publicly funded media or VERY well-funded worker-run collectives, we are all on a sinking ship. The problem is convincing the public that they're going down, too.

Karen K. Ho@karenho.bsky.social · 6mo ago

A lot of people cannot just start a paid newsletter or become freelancers to sustain their careers. The sports, metro, and international desks did work that requires *team* resources, like legal checks, documents, access to archives, and long-term beat experience.

I really hate that media layoffs have been happening for the last three years, including my own, and most of the people responsible for the mismanagement won't experience any negative consequences, especially for decimating the number of people of color in so many American newsrooms.

I've had the pleasure of working with Unbreaking for almost six (!) months now as part of their comms team. In light of...everything...I wrote this essay to unpack how it feels to ID as a "lowercase-j" journalist while Journalism courts fascism.

Unbreaking@unbreaking.org · 6mo ago

@sydmt.blacksky.app became a journalist to be part of the solution. Journalism had other plans. She's given us an essay on what it means to choose empathy and ethics as both are under attack, and to tell the truth outside the media institutions that are failing us. unbreaking.org/blog/Unbreak...

Linkedin is not a place of honor

I just backed The Cookout: A Speculative Fiction Anthology on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/and...

The Cookout: A Speculative Fiction Anthology

Sci-fi, fantasy, & horror stories by Black authors, centering traditions of “the cookout” — the joy, the drama, and the delicious food.

kickstarter.com

lupita is the kind of fine that makes you go, "how dare you"

Who among us would not launch a thousand ships for the sake of Lupita Nyongo

Don Lemon has been released without bail, and his next court appearance is Feb. 9