GESSwrites
@gesswrites.bsky.social
Writer of stories about women getting what they want. My short story "Unnoticed" appears in #MixedBagOfTricks, an anthology of 11 short stories by 11 women writers. Finalist in 2025 Fugue Prose Contest Member of Armadillo Authors Society
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Alyssa Cole@alyssacolelit.bsky.social · 7h agoIf you haven't read my "rag-tag team of misfits who share a body must work together to solve locked room mysteries in both their inner and outer worlds" gothic thriller yet, ONE OF US KNOWS is currently on sale! www.amazon.com/One-Us-Knows...
The world hates unmarried women. - A Likeable Woman, May Cobb
I just saw that video, apparently from 2015, of a young cheer squad's routine that reenecacts the terrorist attack of 09/11/2001 and I'm feeling some kind of way and need to get off of here.
New trailer for 'Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother.' In select theaters September 25 and everywhere this October. [📽 via Amazon MGM Studios] #YourMotherYourMotherYourMother
At just 13 years old, Grace Wisher worked alongside Mary Pickersgill to help sew the flag that inspired “The Star-Spangled Banner.” For generations, her contribution was largely overlooked, but her story deserves to be remembered. 🇺🇸 #SheShed #VivaHerAlliance
Maktabat Berfin, a small Arabic-language bookstore in Paris, has become a cultural meeting point for Arab readers, writers and artists in the French capital.
Please please please #parents and #guardians, TEACH YOUR CHILDREN about their bodies; sooner rather than later; sooner rather than not at all.
Supernova Momma@supernovaparenting.org · yesterdayWe are at training bras and deodorant. It’s time to bring out the big guns
Some #AmericanHistory that you probably didn't think of but could learn right now because #BlackAmericanHistory IS America's history too
Mychal Threets@mychal3ts.bsky.social · yesterdayLucille proudly and courageously held Ruby’s hand as they walked to school together as hatred & hostility swirled all around them. Lucille Bridges was a phenomenal, caring mom who wanted her child to have an education, to have every opportunity to learn. Lucille and Ruby Bridges changed the world 💜
James Baldwin’s 102nd birthday was yesterday. You can buy “James Baldwin 3-Book Box Set: Go Tell It on the Mountain, Giovanni's Room, and If Beale Street Could Talk" from Shop Mr. Well-Travelled, the BLACK-Owned Online Bookstore ✊🏾📚 #booksky #blackbooksky shop.mrwelltravelled.com/collections/...
James Baldwin 3-Book Box Set: Giovanni's Room, If Beale Street Could T
by James Baldwin Description A box set of James Baldwin's principal novels, featuring Go Tell It on the Mountain, Giovanni's Room, and If Beale Street Could Talk. . Originally published in 1953, Go Te...
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Librarians and Booksellers Will Be Arrested For Doing Their Jobs in Arkansas A Federal Judge has allowed an Arkansas law to go into effect that will lead to widespread book bans and jail time for librarians. What to know, who is involved, and how you can act. bookriot.com/arkansas-act...
Librarians and Booksellers Will Be Arrested For Doing Their Jobs in Arkansas
A Federal Judge has allowed an Arkansas law to go into effect that will lead to widespread book bans and jail time for librarians.
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Ms. Marian Smothers has a message for all of you. 💜 We'll let her do the talking. See you at STLV! 🖖🏾 Friday Aug 7 Panel 1115am SyFy Sistas Table 2pm
Closer to authentic chai for this Monday's #TeaOfTheDay: 3 scoops of #JustTea's African Chai steeped in heated #HigherHarvest soy milk and sprinkled with some evaporated sugar in a big turquoise #Sweese mug
This question may seem naive but... Why is the one country who has actually deployed nuclear weapons against people supposedly policing other nations' nuclear weapons capabilities?
Thanks, #RideOrDie, for making Hubby aware of the #Apocrypha and leading him to ask questions that I could only give vague answers to. "You know, the books and stories excluded from The Bible. Not recently, like the USian Negro Bible, but in ancient and medieval times." I'm such a lapsed catholic!
Happy Woman Laughs & Flips Desk
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We're looking for 20-25 community members to volunteer on Sept. 25, 26, and 27 during our 20th Anniversary weekend celebration. All volunteers will receive: 🔥Torch shirt 🔥All program meals 🔥A seat at the gala 🔥Access to Saturday & Sunday events Apply by 8/7: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
I would like someone to gift me a nice box of chocolates.
Valentine's Love Chocolates
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I dislike the language of "feeling safe." Safety isn't a feeling or an impression. You can feel safe but not actually BE safe. Ask Nolan Wells. SAFETY is a condition that either exists or doesn't.
Ami Dummi McClure Asks 'Is It Safe?'
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In August 1619, the first documented enslaved Africans arrived in the stolen land now known as the United States of America. Sincerely, The BLACK-Owned Online Bookstore ✊🏾📚 #booksky #blackbooksky #blacksky #history shop.mrwelltravelled.com/products/the...
The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story (Paperback)
by Nikole Hannah-Jones Description The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story is a #1 New York Times Bestseller and NAACP Image Award winner. From the Publisher: "In late August 1619, a ship arrived in the ...
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Damn it @aarp.org ! Why is this photo of the wonderful LeVar Burton in your magazine triggering my uncanny valley response? What did you do him?
Why African Americans celebrated Aug 1st instead of July 4th. www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020...
Perspective | A long-forgotten holiday animates Black Lives Matter
The movement for racial equality echoes the vision of the “August First Day” holiday.
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Not particularly interesting #TeaOfTheDay yesterday and today 🤷🏾♀️: #Lovaré's Linden garden #JusTea's lemon ginger
Good night 💤 When we ban books in libraries or schools before we ban guns, we admit we are more afraid of our children learning than we of them dying.
if you want to watch art that speaks to *why*, might I recommend Mati Diop's "Atlantics?" Its themes of desperation, migration, heartbreak, and haunting feel especially salient. (From 2019)
'Atlantics' haunts its audience with a Senegalese story of love, class and capitalism - Andscape
Mati Diop knows what it’s like to be surrounded by towering artistic voices. Her father, Wasis Diop, is a popular jazz musician. Her uncle, Djibril Diop Mambéty, is best known for the influential Touk...
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Martin D.B. Brown@martindbbrown.bsky.social · 5d agoHow 60,000 people swam to Spanish territory www.ft.com/content/7c48...
She was only 12 years old, but her invention helped improve the air quality in classrooms across Connecticut. Her name is Eniola Shokunbi. #SheShed #VivaHerAlliance