M Shelly Conner
@mshellyconner.bsky.social
🏳️🌈 👩🏽❤️👩🏿 Writer- author of award-winning novel EVERYMAN (Blackstone)| Professor |Foodie w/texture challenges | Homesteader | Repped by Beth Marshea at Ladderbird Literary Agency
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Excited to be moderating a panel at #DallasLiteraryFestival with @deeshaphilyaw.bsky.social Renee Simms and Latoya Watkins.
Also already fangirling to catch festival headliner @tomiadeyemi.bsky.social
#BlackBookSky
#blacksky
#bvm
#blackwriters
#blackwomen
#booksky
Also already fangirling to catch festival headliner @tomiadeyemi.bsky.social
#BlackBookSky
#blacksky
#bvm
#blackwriters
#blackwomen
#booksky
March 15, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Excited to be moderating a panel at #DallasLiteraryFestival with @deeshaphilyaw.bsky.social Renee Simms and Latoya Watkins.
Also already fangirling to catch festival headliner @tomiadeyemi.bsky.social
#BlackBookSky
#blacksky
#bvm
#blackwriters
#blackwomen
#booksky
Also already fangirling to catch festival headliner @tomiadeyemi.bsky.social
#BlackBookSky
#blacksky
#bvm
#blackwriters
#blackwomen
#booksky
1️⃣6️⃣ Your book is hitting the big (or small) screen! Who’s your dream director?
Who would bring your story to life exactly as you imagine it?
Repost with your answer and tag #AskAnAuthor so others can find it! Like and share to pass on your wisdom. 💡
#WritingCommunity #Booksky
Who would bring your story to life exactly as you imagine it?
Repost with your answer and tag #AskAnAuthor so others can find it! Like and share to pass on your wisdom. 💡
#WritingCommunity #Booksky
February 16, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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Don’t lose hope. Remember, Watergate took over two years to fully unravel from the initial break-in to Nixon’s resignation. Just like then and now, Americans are losing faith in their government. We are documenting every illegal action and will hold this administration and Elon Musk accountable.
February 15, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Don’t lose hope. Remember, Watergate took over two years to fully unravel from the initial break-in to Nixon’s resignation. Just like then and now, Americans are losing faith in their government. We are documenting every illegal action and will hold this administration and Elon Musk accountable.
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“The Maryland National Guard must decline events which celebrates individuals based all or in part on immutable characteristics,” the memo said.
Douglass was an abolitionist, suffragist, orator and author. That’s what we celebrate him. Let’s be clear: This bars celebrating him because he was Black.
Douglass was an abolitionist, suffragist, orator and author. That’s what we celebrate him. Let’s be clear: This bars celebrating him because he was Black.
Maryland National Guard out of Frederick Douglass parade after DoD order
Strict guidance from the national defense department crushed plans for a parade held in honor of Frederick Douglass’ 207th birthday because it was being held during Black History Month.
www.thebaltimorebanner.com
February 15, 2025 at 7:07 AM
“The Maryland National Guard must decline events which celebrates individuals based all or in part on immutable characteristics,” the memo said.
Douglass was an abolitionist, suffragist, orator and author. That’s what we celebrate him. Let’s be clear: This bars celebrating him because he was Black.
Douglass was an abolitionist, suffragist, orator and author. That’s what we celebrate him. Let’s be clear: This bars celebrating him because he was Black.
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Join 50501 in a National Day of Action on Monday, February 17th. We are reclaiming President's Day - a day that is supposed to be celebrating the Presidency. Unite to limit executive overreach. Find your protest at https://buff.ly/417VjtT, or create one.
February 10, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Join 50501 in a National Day of Action on Monday, February 17th. We are reclaiming President's Day - a day that is supposed to be celebrating the Presidency. Unite to limit executive overreach. Find your protest at https://buff.ly/417VjtT, or create one.
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The 50501 Movement has planned protests at all 50 state capitols and the U.S. Capitol on Presidents’ Day at noon. While mainstream media isn’t covering it, many YouTubers have stepped up to provide coverage.
February 15, 2025 at 7:48 PM
The 50501 Movement has planned protests at all 50 state capitols and the U.S. Capitol on Presidents’ Day at noon. While mainstream media isn’t covering it, many YouTubers have stepped up to provide coverage.
Simply Beautiful by Al Green but I'll listen to any rendition.
1. What is the most beautiful love song ever, in your opinion?
February 14, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Simply Beautiful by Al Green but I'll listen to any rendition.
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Tuberculosis killed 1/4th of Europe not too long ago. We are now in the largest TB outbreak in U.S. history. A man who doesnt believe in vaccines is now the head of our country’s public health.
The U.S. ERADICATED measles 25 years ago. It’s now surging.
RFK Jr. called it fake.
The U.S. ERADICATED measles 25 years ago. It’s now surging.
RFK Jr. called it fake.
February 13, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Tuberculosis killed 1/4th of Europe not too long ago. We are now in the largest TB outbreak in U.S. history. A man who doesnt believe in vaccines is now the head of our country’s public health.
The U.S. ERADICATED measles 25 years ago. It’s now surging.
RFK Jr. called it fake.
The U.S. ERADICATED measles 25 years ago. It’s now surging.
RFK Jr. called it fake.
My wife & I are currently entering the foster/adoption process. As two Black queer women in the south, private adoption wasn't an option. Many agencies don't work with same-sex couples. There's many more adoption consultants, high price marketing firms. This is how they purchase Black babies.
There are some successful stories regarding adoption but overall it is a system that preys on poor and global majority citizens for their children.
February 14, 2025 at 3:29 PM
My wife & I are currently entering the foster/adoption process. As two Black queer women in the south, private adoption wasn't an option. Many agencies don't work with same-sex couples. There's many more adoption consultants, high price marketing firms. This is how they purchase Black babies.
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One of our supporters shared this with us—people are getting creative tonight!
February 14, 2025 at 4:25 AM
One of our supporters shared this with us—people are getting creative tonight!
I don't trash other authors. I do trash folk who talk reckless about Black women.
If that person also happens to have written some books...🤷🏾♀️
"College educated Black women read more than all other groups."
#blacksky #bvm #blackskyover40 #authors #writers #writingcommunity
#blackwomen
If that person also happens to have written some books...🤷🏾♀️
"College educated Black women read more than all other groups."
#blacksky #bvm #blackskyover40 #authors #writers #writingcommunity
#blackwomen
February 14, 2025 at 1:25 AM
I don't trash other authors. I do trash folk who talk reckless about Black women.
If that person also happens to have written some books...🤷🏾♀️
"College educated Black women read more than all other groups."
#blacksky #bvm #blackskyover40 #authors #writers #writingcommunity
#blackwomen
If that person also happens to have written some books...🤷🏾♀️
"College educated Black women read more than all other groups."
#blacksky #bvm #blackskyover40 #authors #writers #writingcommunity
#blackwomen
So your Word & Google docs can be scraped to train AI?
I've been using Living Writer (pricey) for my writing but all my teaching notes, lectures, etc are housed in Google. I even use Classroom as my main platform.
Guess part of my sabbatical will be to disengage Google.
#writingcommunity
I've been using Living Writer (pricey) for my writing but all my teaching notes, lectures, etc are housed in Google. I even use Classroom as my main platform.
Guess part of my sabbatical will be to disengage Google.
#writingcommunity
February 12, 2025 at 7:00 PM
So your Word & Google docs can be scraped to train AI?
I've been using Living Writer (pricey) for my writing but all my teaching notes, lectures, etc are housed in Google. I even use Classroom as my main platform.
Guess part of my sabbatical will be to disengage Google.
#writingcommunity
I've been using Living Writer (pricey) for my writing but all my teaching notes, lectures, etc are housed in Google. I even use Classroom as my main platform.
Guess part of my sabbatical will be to disengage Google.
#writingcommunity
Omar Tyree saying Black women don't swim because they don't wanna mess up hair and nails...
But not knowing the history of racist policies around public swimming pools is ignorant AF.
Pictured: the author and her swimming pool on her Arkansas homestead
#blacksky #bvm #booksky #authors #writers
But not knowing the history of racist policies around public swimming pools is ignorant AF.
Pictured: the author and her swimming pool on her Arkansas homestead
#blacksky #bvm #booksky #authors #writers
February 12, 2025 at 6:38 PM
A bunch of people have sent me this. I just want everybody to know this is NOT my fault. (This time.)
Something is happening inside the Earth, scientists say
February 10, 2025 at 11:32 PM
It's like Whitney Houston and Luther made singing look effortless.
But then you pick up that karaoke mic...
I like the analogy cause it doesn't mean don't sing.
It just means recognize the skill & work it takes to make it a profession.
#writers #bvm #booksky #authors
But then you pick up that karaoke mic...
I like the analogy cause it doesn't mean don't sing.
It just means recognize the skill & work it takes to make it a profession.
#writers #bvm #booksky #authors
People are saying this is true of all creative work and sure but when I said "I just realized," I meant I'd just had a specific thought, right before bed, about bad poetry in particular. Lol.
I just realized that the reason so many people are bad at poetry (and creative writing generally) is that because great poetry sounds and feels effortless, people assume that it *is* effortless. When in truth that effortless quality is actually the result of hard creative work.
February 10, 2025 at 11:26 PM
This is one of the main functions of art.
Sustaining life especially in dismal times.
It's also why art by the disenfranchised (i.e. Black, queer ME) is inherently political. My fiction tells the stories of people this current administration is fervently trying to erase.
Sustaining life especially in dismal times.
It's also why art by the disenfranchised (i.e. Black, queer ME) is inherently political. My fiction tells the stories of people this current administration is fervently trying to erase.
And that’s why we make it.
Even when it feels ‘unimportant’ or when the world is in shambles… because I know somebody, somewhere needs a fight song or a singalong… or to move they body and feel something deeply personal & real for a second. An escape. A reminder. A hug. A connection. 💜
Even when it feels ‘unimportant’ or when the world is in shambles… because I know somebody, somewhere needs a fight song or a singalong… or to move they body and feel something deeply personal & real for a second. An escape. A reminder. A hug. A connection. 💜
music sustains me :)
February 9, 2025 at 5:32 PM
This is one of the main functions of art.
Sustaining life especially in dismal times.
It's also why art by the disenfranchised (i.e. Black, queer ME) is inherently political. My fiction tells the stories of people this current administration is fervently trying to erase.
Sustaining life especially in dismal times.
It's also why art by the disenfranchised (i.e. Black, queer ME) is inherently political. My fiction tells the stories of people this current administration is fervently trying to erase.
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Because in the United States, it’s legal to feed chicken shit to cattle.
That’s why. That’s literally the reason
www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...
That’s why. That’s literally the reason
www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...
February 8, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Because in the United States, it’s legal to feed chicken shit to cattle.
That’s why. That’s literally the reason
www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...
That’s why. That’s literally the reason
www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...
Definitely why we purchased our 15 acre homestead back in 2020. Here is where we live self-sustainably and build generational security.
UNTIL I AM WHERE I WANNA DIE, Im renting.
For sure. I bought, cuz "I could", but now I feel slightly stuck here... Selling is a daunting thought. I wish I stayed nimble, and renting, until I was where I wanna die :-)
February 8, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Definitely why we purchased our 15 acre homestead back in 2020. Here is where we live self-sustainably and build generational security.
Fight #dystopiaUSA
We are members of Congress at the Treasury Department. We want to be let in to provide oversight on behalf of our constituents. @jasmineforus.bsky.social @sethmagaziner.bsky.social
February 4, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Fight #dystopiaUSA
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The Treasury Department right now. People are turning out against Musk and DOGE staging a takeover of the Treasury’s payment system. This crowd is big. The whole block is packed. “Lock him up,” everyone yells.
February 4, 2025 at 10:43 PM
The Treasury Department right now. People are turning out against Musk and DOGE staging a takeover of the Treasury’s payment system. This crowd is big. The whole block is packed. “Lock him up,” everyone yells.
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Daily Beast reports Gavin Kliger's father is an attorney for Experian (I presume in-house attorney)
www.yahoo.com/news/doge-mu...
www.yahoo.com/news/doge-mu...
Unmasked: Musk’s Secret DOGE Goon Squad—Who Are All Under 26
Elon Musk’s team of young DOGE disruptors have been unmasked, much to the ire of the billionaire and other MAGA figures. One is a 19-year-old college freshman and heir to a popcorn fortune. Another wa...
www.yahoo.com
February 4, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Daily Beast reports Gavin Kliger's father is an attorney for Experian (I presume in-house attorney)
www.yahoo.com/news/doge-mu...
www.yahoo.com/news/doge-mu...
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so y'all still don't think we need to whoop ass yet or
they got rid of DEI and the right wing tech elites immediately started hiring based on experience
oh no wait lol
oh no wait lol
February 4, 2025 at 10:46 PM
so y'all still don't think we need to whoop ass yet or
i mean, dems are saying the things we want them to say. warren's saying it. jefferies is saying it. wyden's saying it. omar's saying it. AOC is saying it. it's not landing on the front page of any major news website, but they're saying in plain language what's happening here.
"I just want to be clear about what's going on here."
- @warren.senate.gov
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIHN...
- @warren.senate.gov
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIHN...
February 4, 2025 at 10:48 PM