Lawrence Everett Forbes
@bohemiandork.com
Black queer writer, painter, caregiver, and former game-show contestant. Current (2025) Lambda Literary Fellow. As seen in the New York Times, Newsweek, WIRED, and on Wheel of Fortune. | bohemiandork.com. 🇺🇸🇻🇨🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🩼♿️
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Lawrence Everett Forbes
@bohemiandork.com
· Nov 14
Are You Mad? (2021)
5’ x 4’
Acrylic and gel medium on canvas
5’ x 4’
Acrylic and gel medium on canvas
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There’s another wave of author impersonators offering consultations/mentoring for a price. (I got one from “Claire Keegan” telling me I’m very promising!) I’m sure you are great, but I didn’t email to tell you how swell you are. Here’s info on book scams: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/prh-fraud/
November 11, 2025 at 4:40 PM
There’s another wave of author impersonators offering consultations/mentoring for a price. (I got one from “Claire Keegan” telling me I’m very promising!) I’m sure you are great, but I didn’t email to tell you how swell you are. Here’s info on book scams: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/prh-fraud/
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Your new motto should be: if it’s fine for disabled people, it’s fine for me.
November 11, 2025 at 3:52 AM
Your new motto should be: if it’s fine for disabled people, it’s fine for me.
Thirty-five degrees outside. I know this, because I was out in that 35 degrees AND IT IS F#CKING COLD!
November 11, 2025 at 3:03 AM
Thirty-five degrees outside. I know this, because I was out in that 35 degrees AND IT IS F#CKING COLD!
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Let my gravestone read "PUNCTUATION GOES INSIDE THE QUOTATION MARKS."
November 10, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Let my gravestone read "PUNCTUATION GOES INSIDE THE QUOTATION MARKS."
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While you’re at it with second chances...
Save the date for my next novel, Love Is A Contact Sport.
A Black, Queer, Second Chance, College Reunion, MM Romance.
Out June 2026 on @boldstrokesbooks.bsky.social ✍🏾📚💕🌈
#Romancelandia #BookSky #BlackBookSky #RomanceBookSky
Save the date for my next novel, Love Is A Contact Sport.
A Black, Queer, Second Chance, College Reunion, MM Romance.
Out June 2026 on @boldstrokesbooks.bsky.social ✍🏾📚💕🌈
#Romancelandia #BookSky #BlackBookSky #RomanceBookSky
November 10, 2025 at 6:57 PM
While you’re at it with second chances...
Save the date for my next novel, Love Is A Contact Sport.
A Black, Queer, Second Chance, College Reunion, MM Romance.
Out June 2026 on @boldstrokesbooks.bsky.social ✍🏾📚💕🌈
#Romancelandia #BookSky #BlackBookSky #RomanceBookSky
Save the date for my next novel, Love Is A Contact Sport.
A Black, Queer, Second Chance, College Reunion, MM Romance.
Out June 2026 on @boldstrokesbooks.bsky.social ✍🏾📚💕🌈
#Romancelandia #BookSky #BlackBookSky #RomanceBookSky
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reward for folding all your 'zines, a crown! #NoKings #OnlyQueens
thx-1138, columbia copy shop, @meganpiont.bsky.social & brooklyn resisters!!
thx-1138, columbia copy shop, @meganpiont.bsky.social & brooklyn resisters!!
November 10, 2025 at 6:17 PM
reward for folding all your 'zines, a crown! #NoKings #OnlyQueens
thx-1138, columbia copy shop, @meganpiont.bsky.social & brooklyn resisters!!
thx-1138, columbia copy shop, @meganpiont.bsky.social & brooklyn resisters!!
I’m impressed by and jealous of the dude across me on this train rolling a joint.
a man in a black sweater is holding a cup and says i was both shocked and impressed
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November 7, 2025 at 2:45 AM
I’m impressed by and jealous of the dude across me on this train rolling a joint.
Working in sales is great, if you like manipulating people. 🤷🏾♂️
November 6, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Working in sales is great, if you like manipulating people. 🤷🏾♂️
My weed dude got arrested, and I’m…
a man is crying while laying on a couch with his eyes closed .
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media.tenor.com
November 6, 2025 at 5:03 PM
My weed dude got arrested, and I’m…
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I love that Mamdani is what the right claimed Obama was: A Muslim socialist born in Africa. The right practically manifested Mamdani into existence.
November 5, 2025 at 2:25 PM
I love that Mamdani is what the right claimed Obama was: A Muslim socialist born in Africa. The right practically manifested Mamdani into existence.
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November 5, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Good morning to all my New Yorkers!
a man in a suit and tie stands next to a man in a red and white shirt that says emirates
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November 5, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Good morning to all my New Yorkers!
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If you live in NYC and you are interested in organizing with others around our public libraries, you are invited to join our work @nycplan.org. We have a chance to increase and stabilize funding for our public libraries and you can help make that happen. actionnetwork.org/letters/city...
City Council, we demand half a percent of the overall city budget for libraries!
In response to the NYC FY2026 Budget, adopted this June, the Brooklyn Public Library, the New York Public Library, and the Queens Public Library released a joint statement thanking City Leaders for in...
actionnetwork.org
November 5, 2025 at 2:00 PM
If you live in NYC and you are interested in organizing with others around our public libraries, you are invited to join our work @nycplan.org. We have a chance to increase and stabilize funding for our public libraries and you can help make that happen. actionnetwork.org/letters/city...
I feel like those guys I used to see at the racetrack as a kid, but I'm at my computer, yelling, "Come on, Mamdani! Come ON!" instead as I anxiously await the final results.
a brown horse is running in a field with the words headlikeanorange written below it
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media.tenor.com
November 5, 2025 at 2:08 AM
I feel like those guys I used to see at the racetrack as a kid, but I'm at my computer, yelling, "Come on, Mamdani! Come ON!" instead as I anxiously await the final results.
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this week's newsletter centers food stamp culture: 'I’ve checked in on people at County Jail before — and the food stamp office had a similar visitor’s room energy: the guards were blank or sneering.' open.substack.com/pub/shinebri...
November 4, 2025 at 6:35 PM
this week's newsletter centers food stamp culture: 'I’ve checked in on people at County Jail before — and the food stamp office had a similar visitor’s room energy: the guards were blank or sneering.' open.substack.com/pub/shinebri...
Waiting for the polls to close and the election results to begin is...
a small brown and white puppy is standing on a tiled floor .
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media.tenor.com
November 5, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Waiting for the polls to close and the election results to begin is...
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I’m not looking to Ben Shapiro for anything except directions to hell, thank you
November 5, 2025 at 1:41 AM
I’m not looking to Ben Shapiro for anything except directions to hell, thank you
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Truth be told, this campaign has been extremely useful for underscoring how racism is also inherent in the Democratic party. Not outside of it but within it.
November 5, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Truth be told, this campaign has been extremely useful for underscoring how racism is also inherent in the Democratic party. Not outside of it but within it.
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Babies born to black mothers 81% more likely to die in neonatal care, NHS study shows
Babies born to black mothers 81% more likely to die in neonatal care, NHS study shows
Analysis of England and Wales units also finds 63% higher risk to babies whose mothers live in most deprived areas
Babies born to black mothers in England and Wales and those from the most deprived areas are significantly more likely to die while in neonatal units, according to analysis revealing the “deeply concerning” figures.
The study, led by academics at the University of Liverpool, examined data on more than 700,000 babies admitted to an NHS neonatal unit across England and Wales between 2012 and 2022. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 4, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Babies born to black mothers 81% more likely to die in neonatal care, NHS study shows
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Cuomo - endorsed by Elon Musk and Donald Trump. That should tell you everything you need to know.
November 3, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Cuomo - endorsed by Elon Musk and Donald Trump. That should tell you everything you need to know.
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So many people just like the IDEA of relationships, and when things get rocky, they wanna just cheat on their partners.
Grow up.
Grow up.
November 3, 2025 at 10:38 PM
So many people just like the IDEA of relationships, and when things get rocky, they wanna just cheat on their partners.
Grow up.
Grow up.
The country is crumbling, but my bathroom and bedroom are nice and clean, should nuclear testing end up creating a Third World War.
November 3, 2025 at 8:20 PM
The country is crumbling, but my bathroom and bedroom are nice and clean, should nuclear testing end up creating a Third World War.
You know you've hit a rough spot—possibly a personal low—when you find yourself jamming to the New Age + Hip-hop Muzak fusion hold music while waiting for assistance.
November 3, 2025 at 8:06 PM
You know you've hit a rough spot—possibly a personal low—when you find yourself jamming to the New Age + Hip-hop Muzak fusion hold music while waiting for assistance.
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Another abominable editorial from the Wash Post
November 3, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Another abominable editorial from the Wash Post