Chinelo Onwualu
@chineloonwualu.bsky.social
African spec author, ronin editor, recovering journalist.
🏳️🌈She/Her🏳️🌈
EX MARGINALIA my collection of essays by spec writers of colour is out now!
🏳️🌈She/Her🏳️🌈
EX MARGINALIA my collection of essays by spec writers of colour is out now!
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Morland Writing Scholarships Winners Announcement 2025 - The Miles Morland Foundation
Morland Writing Scholarships Winners Announcement 2025 We are pleased to announce that we have four brilliant new Morland Writing Scholars for 2025. We had over 800 entries this year, all from publish...
milesmorlandfoundation.com
Thrilled to announce that I’m one of the four winners of the Morland Writing Scholarship for 2025. Thank you to the judges; I’m so deeply honoured! And congratulations to fellow winners: Monique Kwachou, Adeola Opeyemi, and Carlo Saio!
milesmorlandfoundation.com/morland-writ...
milesmorlandfoundation.com/morland-writ...
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In order to really understand racism, it's necessary to understand the origins of racism. The trope that "racism is universal and natural" is pseudoscience PROPAGANDA. Blood quantum, the act of measuring racial ancestry in percentiles, is also propaganda. thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/a-prehistory...
A Prehistory of Scientific Racism
The author of “Whiteness” traces the evolution of race as a social and political instrument, from its beginnings in ancient hierarchies through European colonial expansion and into contemporary times.
thereader.mitpress.mit.edu
December 28, 2025 at 4:39 AM
In order to really understand racism, it's necessary to understand the origins of racism. The trope that "racism is universal and natural" is pseudoscience PROPAGANDA. Blood quantum, the act of measuring racial ancestry in percentiles, is also propaganda. thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/a-prehistory...
A collection I edited, African Ghost Stories, has been named one of the 100 Notable African Books of 2024. Check out the rest of the amazing list here: brittlepaper.com/100-notable-...
100 Notable African Books of 2024
Explore African Literature
brittlepaper.com
December 25, 2025 at 6:05 AM
A collection I edited, African Ghost Stories, has been named one of the 100 Notable African Books of 2024. Check out the rest of the amazing list here: brittlepaper.com/100-notable-...
“All … instances of systemic racism have their roots in the legacies of European colonial domination and the racist ideologies on which they were built. This era … saw atrocities … from the erasure of Indigenous populations to the transatlantic slave trade.”
www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...
www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...
Sixty years ago, the world tried to stop racial discrimination and failed
Decades after the passing of the UN convention on the elimination of discrimination, systemic racism is still rampant.
www.aljazeera.com
December 22, 2025 at 9:13 AM
“All … instances of systemic racism have their roots in the legacies of European colonial domination and the racist ideologies on which they were built. This era … saw atrocities … from the erasure of Indigenous populations to the transatlantic slave trade.”
www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...
www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...
My Essay, “The Case for Reckless Climate Optimism” is now available in Climate Imagination: Dispatches from Hopeful Futures, published by MIT Press and the Center for Science and the Imagination. Get your copy at:
mitpress.mit.edu/978026255366...
mitpress.mit.edu/978026255366...
Climate Imagination
When we think of climate, the stories we tell about the future are often catastrophic: megastorms, crop failures, and heat waves loom over us, sending a sign...
mitpress.mit.edu
December 8, 2025 at 9:39 PM
My Essay, “The Case for Reckless Climate Optimism” is now available in Climate Imagination: Dispatches from Hopeful Futures, published by MIT Press and the Center for Science and the Imagination. Get your copy at:
mitpress.mit.edu/978026255366...
mitpress.mit.edu/978026255366...
Corporate landlords are driving gentrification by deliberately targeting Black and other racialized neighbourhoods across Canada. breachmedia.ca/financialize...
Financialized landlords are targeting Black and Arab neighbourhoods across Canada ⋆ The Breach
New research reveals how Canada’s biggest landlords squeeze racialized neighbourhoods for profit—buying undervalued housing, evicting tenants, and raising rents
breachmedia.ca
November 27, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Corporate landlords are driving gentrification by deliberately targeting Black and other racialized neighbourhoods across Canada. breachmedia.ca/financialize...
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This is going to be great!
Our understanding is that Brandon is going to share a secret family recipe!
TUNE IN!
Our understanding is that Brandon is going to share a secret family recipe!
TUNE IN!
In two days! Join me, @valerievaldes.bsky.social @premeemohamed.com @gregoryawilson.com as we dive into how Canadian vs American authors are navigating economic and political uncertainty, staying connected across the border, and more.
9 pm EST on www.twitch.tv/arvaneleron
#Booksky
9 pm EST on www.twitch.tv/arvaneleron
#Booksky
November 23, 2025 at 1:55 PM
This is going to be great!
Our understanding is that Brandon is going to share a secret family recipe!
TUNE IN!
Our understanding is that Brandon is going to share a secret family recipe!
TUNE IN!
Thrilled to announce that I’m one of the four winners of the Morland Writing Scholarship for 2025. Thank you to the judges; I’m so deeply honoured! And congratulations to fellow winners: Monique Kwachou, Adeola Opeyemi, and Carlo Saio!
milesmorlandfoundation.com/morland-writ...
milesmorlandfoundation.com/morland-writ...
Morland Writing Scholarships Winners Announcement 2025 - The Miles Morland Foundation
Morland Writing Scholarships Winners Announcement 2025 We are pleased to announce that we have four brilliant new Morland Writing Scholars for 2025. We had over 800 entries this year, all from publish...
milesmorlandfoundation.com
November 23, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Thrilled to announce that I’m one of the four winners of the Morland Writing Scholarship for 2025. Thank you to the judges; I’m so deeply honoured! And congratulations to fellow winners: Monique Kwachou, Adeola Opeyemi, and Carlo Saio!
milesmorlandfoundation.com/morland-writ...
milesmorlandfoundation.com/morland-writ...
So there’s a particularly pernicious form of racist microaggression that recently came to my attention. One where white people will see a black person - particularly a black woman - in distress in public and refuse to help them or even acknowledge them.
November 13, 2025 at 5:25 AM
So there’s a particularly pernicious form of racist microaggression that recently came to my attention. One where white people will see a black person - particularly a black woman - in distress in public and refuse to help them or even acknowledge them.
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When you drag a woman by the hair, beat her and force her to kiss your flag, that’s how you tell the world you are the Good Guys
October 4, 2025 at 3:27 PM
When you drag a woman by the hair, beat her and force her to kiss your flag, that’s how you tell the world you are the Good Guys
Tonight, from 6PM - 7PM ET, I’ll be part of Word on the Street’s annual "Creating Time & Space to Write" workshop, an online panel where I’ll be joining fellow writers to talk about how we get our work done. Registration is here: www.eventbrite.com/e/virtual-wo...
September 2, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Tonight, from 6PM - 7PM ET, I’ll be part of Word on the Street’s annual "Creating Time & Space to Write" workshop, an online panel where I’ll be joining fellow writers to talk about how we get our work done. Registration is here: www.eventbrite.com/e/virtual-wo...
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This anthology looks amazing: As the Earth Dreams: Black Canadian Speculative Stories, ed @teresempierre.bsky.social, the author of Myth (both @houseofanansi.bsky.social). Available for pre-order, out in October!
#DSPBposts 💙📚 #BookSky #SmallPress #books ... a 🧵 1/12
#DSPBposts 💙📚 #BookSky #SmallPress #books ... a 🧵 1/12
July 23, 2025 at 3:00 PM
This anthology looks amazing: As the Earth Dreams: Black Canadian Speculative Stories, ed @teresempierre.bsky.social, the author of Myth (both @houseofanansi.bsky.social). Available for pre-order, out in October!
#DSPBposts 💙📚 #BookSky #SmallPress #books ... a 🧵 1/12
#DSPBposts 💙📚 #BookSky #SmallPress #books ... a 🧵 1/12
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Amazon Ring is introducing a new feature that would allow police to request live-stream access to people’s home security devices.
Helllll no. If you have one of those things, get rid of it. Kill it with fire
Helllll no. If you have one of those things, get rid of it. Kill it with fire
Amazon Ring Cashes in on Techno-Authoritarianism and Mass Surveillance
Ring founder Jamie Siminoff is back at the helm of the surveillance doorbell company, and with him is the surveillance-first-privacy-last approach that made Ring one of the most maligned tech devices....
www.eff.org
July 19, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Amazon Ring is introducing a new feature that would allow police to request live-stream access to people’s home security devices.
Helllll no. If you have one of those things, get rid of it. Kill it with fire
Helllll no. If you have one of those things, get rid of it. Kill it with fire
From June 23rd to August 7th the University of Guelph’s Zavitz Art Gallery is hosting Manufactured Ecosystems, an immersive exhibition that explores speculative futures where art and technology converge to address the climate crisis. Do check it out!
www.manufacturedecosystems.com/press-release
www.manufacturedecosystems.com/press-release
Exhibit Info — Manufactured Ecosystems
www.manufacturedecosystems.com
July 20, 2025 at 6:14 PM
From June 23rd to August 7th the University of Guelph’s Zavitz Art Gallery is hosting Manufactured Ecosystems, an immersive exhibition that explores speculative futures where art and technology converge to address the climate crisis. Do check it out!
www.manufacturedecosystems.com/press-release
www.manufacturedecosystems.com/press-release
So excited to announce that my latest short story will be featured in the Black Canadian spec fic anthology, 'As The Earth Dreams', edited by Terese Pierre. Published by House of Anansi Press, it’s coming out in October. The lineup is stacked, y’all! I can’t wait! houseofanansi.com/collections/...
As the Earth Dreams
A ground-breaking anthology of haunting speculative stories by contemporary Black Canadian writers that explore growth, futurity, and joy. This bold and innovative anthology of speculative short ficti...
houseofanansi.com
July 17, 2025 at 4:53 AM
So excited to announce that my latest short story will be featured in the Black Canadian spec fic anthology, 'As The Earth Dreams', edited by Terese Pierre. Published by House of Anansi Press, it’s coming out in October. The lineup is stacked, y’all! I can’t wait! houseofanansi.com/collections/...
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Facebook is taking down this story, but you need to hear it: youtu.be/8uutscijGdQ
"Point-Blank": Israeli Soldiers Execute 15 Gaza Medics & Rescue Workers, Bury in Unmarked Mass Grave
YouTube video by Democracy Now!
youtu.be
April 13, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Facebook is taking down this story, but you need to hear it: youtu.be/8uutscijGdQ
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Profiles in non courage www.politico.com/news/magazin...
‘The Terror Is Real’: An Appalled Tech Industry Is Scared to Criticize Elon Musk
A huge swath of Silicon Valley is horrified by what Elon Musk is doing — but they’re increasingly afraid to say so.
www.politico.com
April 5, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Profiles in non courage www.politico.com/news/magazin...
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🏳️🌈 "Emotionally speaking, queer activism can be back-breaking work."
https://www.wearequeeraf.com/queer-activism-is-exhausting-self-care-is-vital/
https://www.wearequeeraf.com/queer-activism-is-exhausting-self-care-is-vital/
Queer activism is exhausting - self-care is vital
“Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.”
www.wearequeeraf.com
March 12, 2025 at 1:02 PM
🏳️🌈 "Emotionally speaking, queer activism can be back-breaking work."
https://www.wearequeeraf.com/queer-activism-is-exhausting-self-care-is-vital/
https://www.wearequeeraf.com/queer-activism-is-exhausting-self-care-is-vital/
So I want to ask, because I’m genuinely curious: what is it about seeing black people being joyful in public that irritates white folk so much? Too often, I’ve seen white people swooping in to disrupt groups of black people laughing or dancing or simply chatting happily. 🧵
March 2, 2025 at 6:29 AM
So I want to ask, because I’m genuinely curious: what is it about seeing black people being joyful in public that irritates white folk so much? Too often, I’ve seen white people swooping in to disrupt groups of black people laughing or dancing or simply chatting happily. 🧵
Writers and creators with privilege, want to use it to support the marginalized/oppressed creatives in your communities?
Sign up for the Writing the Other "Are You My Ally?" Webinar! Deadline to register is March 2nd!
writingtheother.com/are-you-my-a...
Sign up for the Writing the Other "Are You My Ally?" Webinar! Deadline to register is March 2nd!
writingtheother.com/are-you-my-a...
Are You My Ally? A Webinar for Writers and Creators - Writing the Other
Join authors Nisi Shawl and K. Tempest Bradford for a webinar that will empower would-be allies to support marginalized creatives.
writingtheother.com
March 1, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Writers and creators with privilege, want to use it to support the marginalized/oppressed creatives in your communities?
Sign up for the Writing the Other "Are You My Ally?" Webinar! Deadline to register is March 2nd!
writingtheother.com/are-you-my-a...
Sign up for the Writing the Other "Are You My Ally?" Webinar! Deadline to register is March 2nd!
writingtheother.com/are-you-my-a...
Rosarium Publishing is open to submissions for their PLANET BLACK JOY anthology. We’re looking for spec-fic stories between 3-7k words about joy and pleasure by women and nonbinary folk who identify as Black, African, or Afro-descendent. Deadline is July 1.
rosariumpublishing.com/planet-black...
rosariumpublishing.com/planet-black...
Planet Black Joy
rosariumpublishing.com
February 24, 2025 at 5:47 AM
Rosarium Publishing is open to submissions for their PLANET BLACK JOY anthology. We’re looking for spec-fic stories between 3-7k words about joy and pleasure by women and nonbinary folk who identify as Black, African, or Afro-descendent. Deadline is July 1.
rosariumpublishing.com/planet-black...
rosariumpublishing.com/planet-black...
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Tired of Spades ruining your family functions? Fed up with losing friends over stacking draw twos?
Then what you need is the cooperative card game, Prosper with Dragons!
We're 62% funded! Just 9 days to go! Final stretch!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/115...
#gamenight #cardgame #blacksky
Then what you need is the cooperative card game, Prosper with Dragons!
We're 62% funded! Just 9 days to go! Final stretch!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/115...
#gamenight #cardgame #blacksky
February 20, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Tired of Spades ruining your family functions? Fed up with losing friends over stacking draw twos?
Then what you need is the cooperative card game, Prosper with Dragons!
We're 62% funded! Just 9 days to go! Final stretch!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/115...
#gamenight #cardgame #blacksky
Then what you need is the cooperative card game, Prosper with Dragons!
We're 62% funded! Just 9 days to go! Final stretch!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/115...
#gamenight #cardgame #blacksky