Sherese Francis
@afutureancient.bsky.social
Poet and Interdisciplinary Artist from Queens, NYC! AlkyMist of the I-Magination!
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I’m happy to share that my book PollyNation: A Seminary of Self won Inverted Syntax’s Aggrey Book Prize! #poetry
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juneteenth & the black fantastic / speculative sunday hosted by @akualezlihope.bsky.social, featuring akua lezli hope, @miguelmitchell.bsky.social, @afutureancient.bsky.social, jacqueline johnson, & myself (in which the poet struggles w/o his glasses & makes up shit)
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Juneteenth and the Black Fantastic: Speculative Sunday Poetry Reading Series
YouTube video by Speculative Poetry
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June 17, 2025 at 8:37 PM
juneteenth & the black fantastic / speculative sunday hosted by @akualezlihope.bsky.social, featuring akua lezli hope, @miguelmitchell.bsky.social, @afutureancient.bsky.social, jacqueline johnson, & myself (in which the poet struggles w/o his glasses & makes up shit)
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Sharing that my poem, “Δ Time Reconstruction: Declarations of the Possible Multi-Verse S_lv_s Named
Banna-Ka” will be published in the upcoming anthology, Amorphaville! Thank you to @bristokes.com for including my work! Please support the fundraiser for the anthology:
Banna-Ka” will be published in the upcoming anthology, Amorphaville! Thank you to @bristokes.com for including my work! Please support the fundraiser for the anthology:
I am ecstatic to announce the OFFICIAL crowdfunding launch of our speculative BIPOC anthology, Amorphaville—a collection of poetry & flash fiction from 20+ BIPOC writers examining the fluidity of time. Campaign is linked in my bio.
We hope you’ll join us in supporting BIPOC art! 🚀
#WritingCommunity
We hope you’ll join us in supporting BIPOC art! 🚀
#WritingCommunity
April 18, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Sharing that my poem, “Δ Time Reconstruction: Declarations of the Possible Multi-Verse S_lv_s Named
Banna-Ka” will be published in the upcoming anthology, Amorphaville! Thank you to @bristokes.com for including my work! Please support the fundraiser for the anthology:
Banna-Ka” will be published in the upcoming anthology, Amorphaville! Thank you to @bristokes.com for including my work! Please support the fundraiser for the anthology:
Thinking about yesterday and the responses to Black and brown ppl not in the protests: America doesn’t take seriously the harm and trauma it has enacted on our bodies. Americans are conditioned to treat harm and abuse as something to brush off…
April 6, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Thinking about yesterday and the responses to Black and brown ppl not in the protests: America doesn’t take seriously the harm and trauma it has enacted on our bodies. Americans are conditioned to treat harm and abuse as something to brush off…
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It’s important to understand that when a white person says “this has never happened before” or compares some oppressive behavior to a foreign regime, but it *did* happen here to Black/brown people for years/decades/centuries, it represents a massive blow to solidarity. It’s selfish.
March 20, 2025 at 9:31 PM
It’s important to understand that when a white person says “this has never happened before” or compares some oppressive behavior to a foreign regime, but it *did* happen here to Black/brown people for years/decades/centuries, it represents a massive blow to solidarity. It’s selfish.
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"Poetry lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before."
"..it is our dreams that point the way to freedom. The dreams are made realizable through our poems that give us strength and courage to see, to feel, to speak, and to dare."
- Audre Lorde
"..it is our dreams that point the way to freedom. The dreams are made realizable through our poems that give us strength and courage to see, to feel, to speak, and to dare."
- Audre Lorde
February 13, 2025 at 1:55 PM
"Poetry lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before."
"..it is our dreams that point the way to freedom. The dreams are made realizable through our poems that give us strength and courage to see, to feel, to speak, and to dare."
- Audre Lorde
"..it is our dreams that point the way to freedom. The dreams are made realizable through our poems that give us strength and courage to see, to feel, to speak, and to dare."
- Audre Lorde
New Post on my Return Key project — “Returning? What Does It Mean to Be an Artist in These Times?” featuring commentary on Kendrick Lamar, Gil Scott-Heron and poetry from Gabriel Green. open.substack.com/pub/returnke...
Returning?
What Does It Mean To Be An Artist in These Times?
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February 12, 2025 at 5:18 PM
New Post on my Return Key project — “Returning? What Does It Mean to Be an Artist in These Times?” featuring commentary on Kendrick Lamar, Gil Scott-Heron and poetry from Gabriel Green. open.substack.com/pub/returnke...
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Reposting for alt text and account In case you’re unaware the American Medical Associations has a YouTube page, they are doing daily updates on bird flu and other out breaks since the CDC can not
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February 10, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Reposting for alt text and account In case you’re unaware the American Medical Associations has a YouTube page, they are doing daily updates on bird flu and other out breaks since the CDC can not
youtube.com/@americanmed...
youtube.com/@americanmed...
Something I’ve been thinking about: what we value as humans is often not based on what’s the best, the most good or the most healthy, it’s often based on what’s the most familiar to us…
February 10, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Something I’ve been thinking about: what we value as humans is often not based on what’s the best, the most good or the most healthy, it’s often based on what’s the most familiar to us…
Woohoo, I just received some great news about my poetry manuscript! I can't share the official news yet, but I have a big smile on my face!
February 6, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Woohoo, I just received some great news about my poetry manuscript! I can't share the official news yet, but I have a big smile on my face!
Trying to not to lose my mind completely while we're in the middle of the undoing of our entire government. So listening to Funkadelic
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One Nation Under A Groove - Funkadelic (1978)
YouTube video by 1mistaGROOVE
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February 5, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Trying to not to lose my mind completely while we're in the middle of the undoing of our entire government. So listening to Funkadelic
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WOZ...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WOZ...
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The Trump administration is scrubbing the CDC’s website of documents on reproductive rights issues, sexual health, intimate partner violence, and more.
I'm trying to save them.
You can find the deleted docs at CDCGuidelines.com - I'll be adding more over the weekend.
I'm trying to save them.
You can find the deleted docs at CDCGuidelines.com - I'll be adding more over the weekend.
Download CDC Guidelines Removed By The Trump Admin
The Trump administration is scrubbing the CDC’s website of documents on reproductive rights issues, sexual health, intimate partner violence, and more.
CDCGuidelines.com
February 1, 2025 at 2:12 AM
The Trump administration is scrubbing the CDC’s website of documents on reproductive rights issues, sexual health, intimate partner violence, and more.
I'm trying to save them.
You can find the deleted docs at CDCGuidelines.com - I'll be adding more over the weekend.
I'm trying to save them.
You can find the deleted docs at CDCGuidelines.com - I'll be adding more over the weekend.
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Unfortunately, a comprehensive data privacy bill that is co-sponsored by women lawmakers from both sides of the aisle, Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) and Maria Cantwell (D-WA), will never see the light of day.
And too many of the people who say we need one rarely shine a light on their efforts.
And too many of the people who say we need one rarely shine a light on their efforts.
Committee Chairs Rodgers, Cantwell Unveil Historic Draft Comprehensive Data Privacy Legislation
The Committee on Energy and Commerce is the oldest standing legislative committee in the U.S. House of Representatives and is vested with the broadest jurisdiction of any congressional authorizing com...
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January 30, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Unfortunately, a comprehensive data privacy bill that is co-sponsored by women lawmakers from both sides of the aisle, Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) and Maria Cantwell (D-WA), will never see the light of day.
And too many of the people who say we need one rarely shine a light on their efforts.
And too many of the people who say we need one rarely shine a light on their efforts.
Oh come on!🙄
Substack comes out in favor of Elon. read.substack.com/p/the-fight-...
The fight for free speech in 2025 and beyond
On Substack’s ongoing commitment to freedom of the press
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January 30, 2025 at 4:05 AM
Oh come on!🙄
"Bend your biology to the harsh, evolve your own flesh" 😍
January 29, 2025 at 5:18 PM
"Bend your biology to the harsh, evolve your own flesh" 😍
I have been thinking about Audre Lorde's poem "Power" because of what is happening and how we have normalized abuse and cruelty as representations of power in our language and actions. Especially in the past few years, where people have labeled taunting and bullying as just "jokes" ....
January 29, 2025 at 3:48 PM
I have been thinking about Audre Lorde's poem "Power" because of what is happening and how we have normalized abuse and cruelty as representations of power in our language and actions. Especially in the past few years, where people have labeled taunting and bullying as just "jokes" ....
"I have not been able to touch the destruction
within me.
But unless I learn to use
the difference between poetry and rhetoric
my power too will run corrupt as poisonous mold
or lie limp and useless as an unconnected wire" -- Audre Lorde's "Power" www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/53918/...
within me.
But unless I learn to use
the difference between poetry and rhetoric
my power too will run corrupt as poisonous mold
or lie limp and useless as an unconnected wire" -- Audre Lorde's "Power" www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/53918/...
Power
Today that 37 year old white man with 13 years of police forcing was set free by eleven white men who said they were satisfied justice had been done and one Black Woman who said “They convinced me” me...
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January 29, 2025 at 3:45 PM
"I have not been able to touch the destruction
within me.
But unless I learn to use
the difference between poetry and rhetoric
my power too will run corrupt as poisonous mold
or lie limp and useless as an unconnected wire" -- Audre Lorde's "Power" www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/53918/...
within me.
But unless I learn to use
the difference between poetry and rhetoric
my power too will run corrupt as poisonous mold
or lie limp and useless as an unconnected wire" -- Audre Lorde's "Power" www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/53918/...
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I remind myself several times a day that the people who are out to destroy me *want* me to be in perpetual reactive mode.
As urgent as everything is, it is incumbent on me not to live reactively. I will not let them run me, even if they are currently in charge of my planet.
As urgent as everything is, it is incumbent on me not to live reactively. I will not let them run me, even if they are currently in charge of my planet.
January 28, 2025 at 5:54 PM
I remind myself several times a day that the people who are out to destroy me *want* me to be in perpetual reactive mode.
As urgent as everything is, it is incumbent on me not to live reactively. I will not let them run me, even if they are currently in charge of my planet.
As urgent as everything is, it is incumbent on me not to live reactively. I will not let them run me, even if they are currently in charge of my planet.
Happy Chinese Lunar New Year
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Deva Mahal - Snakes (Official Video)
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January 29, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Happy Chinese Lunar New Year
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So the US right now is either on fire or covered in once-in-a-lifetime snowstorms and the current president's focus with these executive orders are not on any of that; just pettiness about the fact that any marginalized group exists...yep such a great president, the greatest...I hate it here...
January 26, 2025 at 12:45 AM
So the US right now is either on fire or covered in once-in-a-lifetime snowstorms and the current president's focus with these executive orders are not on any of that; just pettiness about the fact that any marginalized group exists...yep such a great president, the greatest...I hate it here...
This country is so exhausting...You would think it makes more sense to have a well-functioning, healthy society to keep things flowing but instead a few people in power would rather irrationally destroy everything to hoard said wealth and power that will be meaningless if everything is destroyed.
January 26, 2025 at 12:32 AM
This country is so exhausting...You would think it makes more sense to have a well-functioning, healthy society to keep things flowing but instead a few people in power would rather irrationally destroy everything to hoard said wealth and power that will be meaningless if everything is destroyed.
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Toshi Reagon b day concerts live streamed here www.youtube.com/live/yVIHiqI...
9:30 1/25 Toshi Reagon and BIGLovely
7:00 1/26 Sacred Music Show
Bernice Johnson Reagon Songbook
You can support our work
Here bit.ly/birthday-con... Streams are free and don’t require a link or contribution.
9:30 1/25 Toshi Reagon and BIGLovely
7:00 1/26 Sacred Music Show
Bernice Johnson Reagon Songbook
You can support our work
Here bit.ly/birthday-con... Streams are free and don’t require a link or contribution.
January 25th, 2025 9:30pm - Toshi Reagon’s Annual Birthday Concerts featuring BIGLovely
YouTube video by Joe's Pub
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January 26, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Toshi Reagon b day concerts live streamed here www.youtube.com/live/yVIHiqI...
9:30 1/25 Toshi Reagon and BIGLovely
7:00 1/26 Sacred Music Show
Bernice Johnson Reagon Songbook
You can support our work
Here bit.ly/birthday-con... Streams are free and don’t require a link or contribution.
9:30 1/25 Toshi Reagon and BIGLovely
7:00 1/26 Sacred Music Show
Bernice Johnson Reagon Songbook
You can support our work
Here bit.ly/birthday-con... Streams are free and don’t require a link or contribution.
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It is *very* important to understand that Jews were never the only target of the 1930s Nazis and they are not the only targets of today’s Nazis. A Nazi salute is not only antisemitic. It is also racist, ableist, and queerphobic.
January 25, 2025 at 11:13 PM
It is *very* important to understand that Jews were never the only target of the 1930s Nazis and they are not the only targets of today’s Nazis. A Nazi salute is not only antisemitic. It is also racist, ableist, and queerphobic.
This week has been fun, hasn't it?🙄
January 26, 2025 at 12:18 AM
This week has been fun, hasn't it?🙄