Charlene A. Carruthers
@charlenecarruthers.bsky.social
she|her, Writer, Educator, Filmmaker, and recovering community organizer.
Also, PhD Candidate in Black Studies at Northwestern University. www.charlenecarruthers.com
Also, PhD Candidate in Black Studies at Northwestern University. www.charlenecarruthers.com
Pinned
I just wrote my first set of #morningpages. My hand is beyond sore. I hope to gain more stamina with regular practice. I started not because I feel completely blocked. I wanna level up. I'm writing a dissertation, a feature length screenplay, in post on a short, and pre- on another short.
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Today, I'm excited to share @capitalb.bsky.social's first strategic plan: capitalbnews.org/capitalb-202...
It's a new time, and a new chapter for Capital B. We spent months of deep reflection and conversation to develop this plan. It's bold and ambitious, and won't be easy — especially right now.
It's a new time, and a new chapter for Capital B. We spent months of deep reflection and conversation to develop this plan. It's bold and ambitious, and won't be easy — especially right now.
Capital B in the Next Three: Our 2025-2028 Strategic Plan
A mirror and a window. After launching in 2022, Capital B’s first few years were characterized by a sense of discovery and possibility. Our staff has worked hard to learn how to best serve and reach ...
capitalbnews.org
November 12, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Today, I'm excited to share @capitalb.bsky.social's first strategic plan: capitalbnews.org/capitalb-202...
It's a new time, and a new chapter for Capital B. We spent months of deep reflection and conversation to develop this plan. It's bold and ambitious, and won't be easy — especially right now.
It's a new time, and a new chapter for Capital B. We spent months of deep reflection and conversation to develop this plan. It's bold and ambitious, and won't be easy — especially right now.
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Philadelphia, see you tonight! A few seats still available for the second seating.
Philly! Due to popular demand, there will be a second seating celebrating Queen Mother: Black Nationalism, Reparations, and the Untold Story of Audley Moore 👑
The first one sold out FAST! So grab your tickets now to guarantee your spot.
📍November 12 at 8:45pm
www.eventbrite.com/e/harrietts-...
The first one sold out FAST! So grab your tickets now to guarantee your spot.
📍November 12 at 8:45pm
www.eventbrite.com/e/harrietts-...
Harriett’s presents Authors @ Amina’s w/ Dr. Ashley Farmer
Authors @ Amina’s invites us to connect and learn about Queen Mother: Black Nationalism, Reparations, and the Untold Story of Audley Moore
www.eventbrite.com
November 12, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Philadelphia, see you tonight! A few seats still available for the second seating.
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An analysis of news pieces about Trump’s anti-trans decrees found that “70 percent did not include a quote from a single trans person. Instead, journalists turned to cisgender sources — mostly government officials — to speak about trans people, their lives, and how they would be affected.”
NEW: Firings of LGBTQ staff at NBC and Condé Nast have worsened an already dire picture for legacy news media when it comes to covering the trans community.
From @billiejsweeney.bsky.social, a close look at our increasingly degraded media environment.
www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
From @billiejsweeney.bsky.social, a close look at our increasingly degraded media environment.
www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
Corporate Media’s Queer Purge — Assigned
It’s no coincidence that historic assaults on trans and queer people’s rights have been accompanied by the mainstream media’s widespread dismissal of LGBTQ+ journalists and the elimination of beats de...
www.assignedmedia.org
November 11, 2025 at 10:00 PM
An analysis of news pieces about Trump’s anti-trans decrees found that “70 percent did not include a quote from a single trans person. Instead, journalists turned to cisgender sources — mostly government officials — to speak about trans people, their lives, and how they would be affected.”
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The genocide continues, in slower pace
Genocide: "Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part"
"[E]ntire neighbourhoods controlled by the IDF have been levelled in less than a month"
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Genocide: "Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part"
"[E]ntire neighbourhoods controlled by the IDF have been levelled in less than a month"
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Israel has destroyed more than 1,500 buildings in Gaza since ceasefire
Entire neighbourhoods controlled by Israel have been levelled in less than a month, the images show.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 12, 2025 at 10:23 AM
The genocide continues, in slower pace
Genocide: "Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part"
"[E]ntire neighbourhoods controlled by the IDF have been levelled in less than a month"
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Genocide: "Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part"
"[E]ntire neighbourhoods controlled by the IDF have been levelled in less than a month"
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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It snows one (1) day and they're looking to gtfo
(also I'll believe it when I see it)
(also I'll believe it when I see it)
Bovino and Co. are preparing to leave Chicago in the coming days, according to @chicagotribune.com reporting
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/10/f...
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/10/f...
Federal Border Patrol Chief Gregory Bovino and agents said to be leaving Chicago, sources say
Cmdr. Gregory Bovino was expected to depart Chicago within days, while most Border Patrol agents under this command would soon be redeployed elsewhere, three sources told the Tribune Monday.
www.chicagotribune.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:31 AM
It snows one (1) day and they're looking to gtfo
(also I'll believe it when I see it)
(also I'll believe it when I see it)
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😩😩😩
welcome to bluesky. if the word "mapquest" means anything to you and/or you used it as a verb, you're in the right place
November 11, 2025 at 2:13 AM
😩😩😩
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How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.
November 10, 2025 at 2:31 AM
How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.
It wasn’t caving in when universities slashed entire programs and policies that supported students, staff, and faculty to appease conservatives…and its not caving in when the Democrats concede to the Republicans.
They want this. They are superficially oppositional, not enemies.
They want this. They are superficially oppositional, not enemies.
November 10, 2025 at 3:04 AM
It wasn’t caving in when universities slashed entire programs and policies that supported students, staff, and faculty to appease conservatives…and its not caving in when the Democrats concede to the Republicans.
They want this. They are superficially oppositional, not enemies.
They want this. They are superficially oppositional, not enemies.
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We sold out 2 tamale vendors, bought out 2 more vendors, and absolutely swarmed a family owned bakery. It was a good day with some the very best of #BikeChi 🥰 for the 4th installment of the Street Vendor Bike Tour. We persist. ✊🏽
November 9, 2025 at 2:07 AM
We sold out 2 tamale vendors, bought out 2 more vendors, and absolutely swarmed a family owned bakery. It was a good day with some the very best of #BikeChi 🥰 for the 4th installment of the Street Vendor Bike Tour. We persist. ✊🏽
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Head's up there is a Bluesky ban scam going around. This account just joined 40 mins ago and send me this DM.
DO NOT CLICK THE LINK.
Bluesky would NEVER send a DM like this and make you scared. This would come through email and would have a more professional email than this.
Stay safe!
DO NOT CLICK THE LINK.
Bluesky would NEVER send a DM like this and make you scared. This would come through email and would have a more professional email than this.
Stay safe!
November 8, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Head's up there is a Bluesky ban scam going around. This account just joined 40 mins ago and send me this DM.
DO NOT CLICK THE LINK.
Bluesky would NEVER send a DM like this and make you scared. This would come through email and would have a more professional email than this.
Stay safe!
DO NOT CLICK THE LINK.
Bluesky would NEVER send a DM like this and make you scared. This would come through email and would have a more professional email than this.
Stay safe!
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Free Walk-up grocery market at Chicago Chicken & Waffles,3933 S. King Drive (in the adjacent parking lot) happening right now. Bring your own bags.
November 8, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Free Walk-up grocery market at Chicago Chicken & Waffles,3933 S. King Drive (in the adjacent parking lot) happening right now. Bring your own bags.
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Keep track of the victories when they come
BREAKING: A federal jury in Brooklyn awarded our clients — 674 immigrants unlawfully jailed by the Suffolk County Sheriff’s Office — $112 million. Could not be more proud to work at @latinojustice.bsky.social and to partner with the talent of Winston & Strawn.
Jury Awards $112 Million to 674 Immigrants Unlawfully Held by Suffolk County for ICE Handover | LatinoJusticePRLDEF
FOR IMMEDIATE
www.latinojustice.org
November 8, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Keep track of the victories when they come
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Women from 17 different countries are working together to coordinate the global struggle against mass incarceration.
buff.ly/PVtpTbY
buff.ly/PVtpTbY
Formerly Incarcerated Women Are Building a Global Network to Fight Imprisonment
Women from 17 different countries are working together to coordinate the global struggle against mass incarceration.
truthout.org
November 8, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Women from 17 different countries are working together to coordinate the global struggle against mass incarceration.
buff.ly/PVtpTbY
buff.ly/PVtpTbY
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Or Rodney Taylor, a disabled double amputee who’s been in America since he was two years old.
He was days away from receiving new prosthetic legs when ICE grabbed him
His health is declining, they won’t let him get his legs and they’ve placed him in solitary
www.disabledginger.com/p/help-rodne...
He was days away from receiving new prosthetic legs when ICE grabbed him
His health is declining, they won’t let him get his legs and they’ve placed him in solitary
www.disabledginger.com/p/help-rodne...
Help Rodney Taylor, a Disabled Double Amputee Being Held by ICE
Rodney has been in the country more than 40 years. He's in solitary confinement in Georgia, being denied disability accommodations and having his medical needs ignored. He must be released.
www.disabledginger.com
November 8, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Or Rodney Taylor, a disabled double amputee who’s been in America since he was two years old.
He was days away from receiving new prosthetic legs when ICE grabbed him
His health is declining, they won’t let him get his legs and they’ve placed him in solitary
www.disabledginger.com/p/help-rodne...
He was days away from receiving new prosthetic legs when ICE grabbed him
His health is declining, they won’t let him get his legs and they’ve placed him in solitary
www.disabledginger.com/p/help-rodne...
OMFG. I could scream every time I read something that points out the erasure of Native American/Indigenous histories in canonical U.S. history books BY naming the Black/White binary.
November 7, 2025 at 2:15 PM
OMFG. I could scream every time I read something that points out the erasure of Native American/Indigenous histories in canonical U.S. history books BY naming the Black/White binary.
EUROPEAN DESCENDED HISTORIANS ARE DRIVERS OF ANTI-BLACKNESS IN NATIVE AMERICAN/INDIGENOUS HISTORIOGRAPHY.
November 7, 2025 at 2:13 PM
EUROPEAN DESCENDED HISTORIANS ARE DRIVERS OF ANTI-BLACKNESS IN NATIVE AMERICAN/INDIGENOUS HISTORIOGRAPHY.
I really really want to write a public essay about belonging and U.S. settler colonialism, but but I have a dissertation to finish. I have the range and the writing skills. I just don't have the bandwidth.
But maybe I can write something short?
But maybe I can write something short?
November 7, 2025 at 2:09 PM
I really really want to write a public essay about belonging and U.S. settler colonialism, but but I have a dissertation to finish. I have the range and the writing skills. I just don't have the bandwidth.
But maybe I can write something short?
But maybe I can write something short?
Hollywood loves Emma Stone!
New Hollywood blacklist just dropped www.worldofreel.com/blog/2025/11...
Paramount Has Blacklist for Stars Deemed “Overtly Antisemitic” — World of Reel
It sure looks like the likes of Javier Bardem, Joaquin Phoenix, Emma Stone, and Mark Ruffalo won’t be making movies for Paramount in the foreseeable future.
www.worldofreel.com
November 7, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Hollywood loves Emma Stone!
I nearly skipped voting for a mayor in Atlanta. Absolutely voted down ballot. Dickens had no real competition (don’t know why so many people are touting it as a major victory). And I wouldn’t dare vote for him. I get it.
Bizarrely, about 2,500 people just took a pass on the mayor's race. People, why are you voting in a local election if you aren't voting for MAYOR?
November 7, 2025 at 1:25 AM
I nearly skipped voting for a mayor in Atlanta. Absolutely voted down ballot. Dickens had no real competition (don’t know why so many people are touting it as a major victory). And I wouldn’t dare vote for him. I get it.
Is there a doctor in the room?!
holy shit -- one of Trump's toadies just passed out and the White House event is brought to an abrupt end
November 6, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Is there a doctor in the room?!
Shoutout to the camera person who kept going as long as possible.
holy shit -- one of Trump's toadies just passed out and the White House event is brought to an abrupt end
November 6, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Shoutout to the camera person who kept going as long as possible.
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For fellow professors that require “interview a professor“ assignments, just know I will find you and I will have my revenge.
November 4, 2025 at 9:44 PM
For fellow professors that require “interview a professor“ assignments, just know I will find you and I will have my revenge.
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Mmhmm. All of them should be doing this.
Friends, I know so many are struggling out there during this shutdown. As our colleagues across the aisle continue to refuse to come to the table—we are doing everything we can to help.
My office will be hosting a resource fair this Friday, November 7th! Please stop by!
My office will be hosting a resource fair this Friday, November 7th! Please stop by!
November 5, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Mmhmm. All of them should be doing this.