🍷 Tonight: Markus Redmond joins Sistah Scifi Wine Down Wednesday to talk Blood Rising, book two of The Blood Saga. Vampires, rebellion, colonial Carolina. 5PM PST / 8PM EST sistahscifi.com/pages/events #SistahScifi #BlackHorror #WineDownWednesday

🌌 Seattle Black Nerd Festival returns to LANGSTON August 28 to 30. Three days of Black Nerd Magic: panels, gaming, cosplay, live music, and a marketplace built by Black creators. Free with RSVP. Siblings in Seattle, pull up. #SistahScifi #BlackNerdMagic

🗓 August with Sistah Scifi. Aug 5: Markus Redmond on BLOOD RISING Aug 12: Gwendolyn Paradice on THE DIVINING SEASON Aug 15: D.E.A.R. in Oakland Aug 17: Ghana, nine days Aug 30: Graphic Novel Club Aug 31: Black Futures Book Club sistahscifi.com/pages/events #SistahScifi

🎧 Audiobook of the Week🎧 In RING SHOUT by P. Djèlí Clark, the Klan’s hatred has become literal monsters, and Maryse Boudreaux is hunting back. 🎧 Listen through our @Libro.fm partnership at libro.fm/audiobooks/9... or borrow free via @libby.app #SistahScifi #BlackHorror

Angela Bassett at Black Girls Rock said it plain: stop asking if you belong. Start declaring it. ✊🏾 Black women have been building worlds without permission for generations. #SistahScifi #BlackSpeculativeFiction #SupportBlackAuthors

🍷 Tonight: Sistah Scifi Wine Down Wednesday with Greg Burnham. Pull up at 5 PM PST / 8 PM EST for a live conversation on *The Search for Sadiqah* from Rosarium Publishing. Join us at sistahscifi.com. #SistahScifi #WineDownWednesday #TheSearchForSadiqah #GregBurnham #BlackComics

Black history, still being written. Tananarive Due at the Obama Presidential Center in Chicago, wearing the names of Black writers who have long imagined what could come next. History remembers. Black imagination reaches forward. #SistahScifi #BlackFutures

📚 What’s your Sunday ritual? Isis is spending hers with DELICIOUS MONSTERS by Liselle Sambury because Daisy is plant mom goals. Listen through eligible Spotify Premium plans, then support an indie bookstore through Bookshop.org. #SistahScifi #SundayReading

🎧 Audiobook of the Week🎧 WHEN THE RECKONING COMES by LaTanya McQueen, turns plantation nostalgia into Southern Gothic horror. Listen: libro.fm/audiobooks/9... #SistahScifi #BlackHorror #Audiobooks

The monstrous can also be a language of resistance. Join the Black Futures Book Club for a virtual discussion of SORROWLAND by Rivers Solomon. 📅 July 27 ⏰ 6:00 to 7:30 PM #SistahScifi #Sorrowland #BlackFutures

🍷 TONIGHT: Sistah Scifi Wine Down Wednesday with Clarence A. Haynes on THE BROKEN HEARTS AGENCY. An empath PI, a ghost-plagued DC, and a force feeding on desire. 5PM PST / 8PM EST. Register: sistahscifi.com/pages/events #SistahScifi #WineDownWednesday

Save your sister or doom the world. No pressure. 🌌 Preorder The Inevitable Undoing of Zahara Douglass by Leslye Penelope at www.sistahscifi.com. 👉🏾 #SistahScifi #BlackSpeculativeFiction #PreorderBooks #SupportBlackAuthors #BlackReaders

Andrea Hairston calls The Redemption Center is Closed on Sundays a SFF mystery romance The real question: why does everyone ask if the mystery was hard to write, but never the romance? Border guards on genre are real. Andrea has been ignoring them since the 1950s 🔗 crimereads.com/andrea-hairs...

📚 Flyers are up across West Oakland for tomorrow's A is for Afrofuturism Family Storytime with Isis Asare + author Angela Dalton. An afternoon of books, wonder, and Black futures for the whole family. 🗓 Sat July 18, 3:30 PM PT 📍 West Oakland Library #SistahScifi #Afrofuturism #OaklandReads

🎧 This week's audiobook: An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon. A generation ship run like the antebellum South, and a lowdeck worker who's done staying quiet. 🔗 libro.fm/audiobooks/9... #SistahScifi #BlackSpeculativeFiction

Cincinnati Opera premieres Lalovavi in July, 400 years in the future, a liberation story. 🌌 #SistahScifi #Afrofuturism

🍷 Sistah Scifi Wine Down Wednesday tonight: C.L. Polk on THE FEYWILD JOB. Exes, a heist, and a gem called the Kiss of Enduring Love. 5PM PST / 8PM EST. sistahscifi.com/pages/events #SistahScifi #WineDownWednesday

Caught EXECUTIVE ORDER at MoAD's LIMITLESS Film Series last week, paired with their UNBOUND exhibit. Runs every Thursday through July 30, free with admission. 🌌 www.moadsf.org/limitless-a-... #SistahScifi #Afrofuturism

📍 A Is for Afrofuturism: Isis Asare + Angela Dalton talk Afrofuturism. Sat July 18, 3:30-4:45 PM PDT, West Oakland Public Library. Free. sistahscifi.com/pages/events #SistahScifi #Oakland

📚 Octavia E. Butler kept Survivor out of print on purpose. She thought it wasn't good enough. It's coming back September 1 anyway. Complicated. Essential. #SistahScifi #OctaviaButler #BlackSpeculativeFiction

Bay Area Siblings. Women of Afrofuturism is up at SFO Museum. Tours Tues + Thurs through July 30, 10 AM, Harvey Milk Terminal 1. Gate Explorer Pass + Real ID required. Six dates left. Register at www.eventbrite.com/e/exhibition... #SistahScifi #Afrofuturism #BayArea

🤎4 preorders to lock in before August: SEASON OF THE SERPENT (Suyi Davies Okungbowa) THE INEVITABLE UNDOING OF ZAHARA DOUGLASS (Leslye Penelope) THE TONGUE I DREAM IN (Sheree Renée Thomas) BLOOD RISING (Markus Redmond) 👉🏾sistahscifi.com #SistahScifi #Preorder

🩸 The question none of the ""prestige horror"" panels ever ask: what happens when the monster is the system? Sat 7/11, 2-4:30PM PDT, Frontier Tower SF. Sistah Scifi is proud to amplify. 👉🏾 sistahscifi.com/pages/events

🎧 Kindred by Octavia E. Butler. Dana gets pulled from 1976 California to the antebellum South, again and again, to keep one boy alive. The history turns out to be hers. The classic that refuses to let the past stay past. 🎧 libro.fm/audiobooks/9... #OctaviaButler #Kindred #Audiobook

🎉 Happy birthday Cherie Dimaline 🤎 Georgian Bay Métis author of The Marrow Thieves and Hunting by Stars. Indigenous futurism where the ability to dream is the thing worth surviving for. 📚 sistahscifi.com #SistahScifi #IndigenousFuturism #CherieDimaline

✊🏾 Wine Down Wednesday, every week in July. Jul 1 - Tlotlo Tsamaase, House of Margins Jul 15 - C.L. Polk, The Feywild Job Jul 22 - Clarence A. Haynes, The Broken Hearts Agency Jul 29 - Greg Burnham, The Search for Sadiqah 5PM PST / 8PM EST Register 👉🏾 sistahscifi.com/pages/events

📚 Out today, Siblings. THE FEYWILD JOB by C.L. Polk. A con artist who can't fall in love, a heist into the Feywild, and the ex they thought they left behind. sistahscifi.com #SistahScifi #Romantasy #BlackSpeculativeFiction

🗓️✊🏾 July is stacked. Black horror, Afrofuturism, and Octavia's legacy. Three Saturdays in the Bay. Register: sistahscifi.com/pages/events #SistahScifi #BlackHorror #OctaviaButler

🎧 Audiobook of the Week: The King Must Die by Kemi Ashing-Giwa. Rebellion. Found family. A world on the edge of collapse. This one hits. Listen via @Libro.fm 👉🏾 libro.fm/audiobooks/9... #SistahScifi #SpeculativeFiction #BlackSpeculativeFiction

✨Sistah Scifi Book Vending Machine Spotlight ✨ Now at the Sistah Scifi Book Vending Machine at @naamnw 📚 Africa Risen Winner of the 2023 World Fantasy Award and 2023 Locus Award for Best Anthology. 📍 Stop by @naamnw and grab your copy today. #SistahScifi #AfricaRisen #Afrofuturism #NAAM