Malaika (Shomari) Kirkwood
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Malaika (Shomari) Kirkwood
@mxoberon.bsky.social
Trans lady bringing fantastical things to your TV and other screens.
Currently: Something Secret and Cool 🤭
Wrote On: 4400, Clean Slate
Repped: INDUSTRY ENTERTAINMENT/Paradigm
Pinned
So, for any cis people who have money, would like to say that if you feel lost about what to do regarding these trans EOs. Please direct yourself to my venmo (@ Zadja) or my cashapp ($ShomariK). Money is a great help in these trying times. 💗
Ugh, there has to be a place in LA that sells Chinese fashion brands. Want to see if i can find a spot to get some mamian or 'new chinese' style stuff.
November 11, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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My money is on malaria
I'm honestly starting to think Americans are going to end the decade with either universal health care or malaria.
November 11, 2025 at 1:52 AM
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pussy like a dungeon crawler. pussy with an engaging gameplay loop
November 10, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Every day in America is a day I get to see the lesson that racists (as a mass) care more about advancing white supremacy than making money.
November 11, 2025 at 1:33 AM
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Hey all you gamers claiming to "want shorter games made by fewer people who are paid more to work less" here's your chance to put your $15 where your mouth is: a spooky & elegiac exploration game made by ex-Bethesda & Ubi devs. It's excellent. Buy it & prove there's a market for games like this!
November 10, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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Shortly after teargassing Little Village, a Mexican-Americsn neighborhood, the Nazis did what? 🤔

"While Border Patrol photographers snapped photos, one agent shouted, “Everyone say, ‘Little Village!’”"
November 10, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Ngl, the greatest gift my husband (the sweetest loyal dog tmasc enby butch) has given me in weeks has been a scepter that lights up when you whack it against stuff. Spinning that thing while high has been fun af!
November 10, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Slowly recovering from burnout which makes me happy. My recovery being slow, however, causes me endless frustrations. I can't rush it, but the factors impacting the speed with which recovery occurs feel so opaque to me.
November 10, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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low polyamory
hardcore bondage people are so fucking funny look at this shit bro
November 10, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Had breakfast with the partner, and now body doubling with each other to complete some tasks~
November 10, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Also been just thinking about the epistemic record of lesbian thought and trans thought. The struggles that emerge within our communities where we must negotiate our relationship to an identity with those around us, making peace with those whose approach may be opposite to your own.
November 10, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Little thought born from a convo today: I feel like it's always so telling when cishet folks are behind a show or something where their lead characters have so much chemistry & intimacy, but they refuse to let them be gay.
November 10, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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“but why should for-profit healthcare execs be prosecuted for murder?”

i’m glad you asked! it’s because every healthcare exec socially murders innocent people to increase their rate of profit!
“Social murder” is a term created by Friedrich Engels to describe the premature death of marginalized people due to political, social, or economic oppression.

What is happening right now in America is the premeditated, calculated, & planned extermination of children who are trans. This is genocide.
there was a new study published *today* in Nature showing that state-level anti-trans laws increase suicide among trans kids up to 72%.

when we say that the New York Times (and other rags of equal repute) is killing us, that's because *IT IS LITERALLY KILLING US*
November 10, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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Hi writers! I’m looking to assign a couple of features for Slate before the end of the year. If you have anything in mind that you think would be a fit please send me a pitch! Jenée.Desmond- harris@slate.com or dm me.

RTs are appreciated so this can reach more people. Thanks!
November 10, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Photo I took of my character from s fun little wuxia mmo~
November 10, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.

He is a computer safety researcher.

And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.

In under 1600 words.

aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
November 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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A prisoner in the Arizona State Prison system decided to reconnect with his Welsh heritage by studying the Welsh language. Now he leads a group of inmates who are independently studying endangered, ancient, and vulnerable languages—Welsh, Brittonic, Assyrian, Old Norse, Taíno, Nahuatl, and Guosa.
'I've never been so excited': Inmate-led program preserves endangered languages behind Az bars
Thomas Steres, an inmate in Arizona, founded the Linguistic Legacies Initiative to teach endangered languages such as Welsh, Nahuatl and Guosa while incarcerated in a state prison in Buckeye, Ariz.
www.tucsonsentinel.com
November 9, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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No other word has done more damage to the craft of writing in recent years than “content”. Even if you’re using the word “content” ironically, or as a cute little joke, don’t. When someone calls writing “content” they’re pissing on someone’s hard work & passion. “Content” is Technosatan’s henchword.
November 10, 2025 at 9:15 AM
High thoughts wifh Malaika (in honor of my homie Tilly's pre-coffee thoughts posts):

If the Repubs bring back chattel slavery, I think I want to find out about it through that one Supernatural meme on tumblr. I dunno, it'd be kind of funny and apropos for the site.
November 10, 2025 at 3:37 AM
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Not the best pic but I figured I'd share something fun. I tried a new colour for my nails this time but, more importantly, a fun lil pattern! Is it perfect? Not really, but the nail tech did her best! Y'all might notice a similarity to my PFP and that's 'cause it's a symbol tied to my novel :D
November 10, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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when the poor were starving, full figures were a sign of luxury

when the poor couldn't read, education showed aristocracy

when the poor were stuck inside offices, suntans and athleticism expressed wealth

now that the poor are educated, apparently it's a sign of wealth to be dumb as bricks lmao
November 9, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Went bar hopping with some trans girls last night and had an utter blast. A sojourn of tequila, weed, dancing, and four dolls exuding killer cunt goddess energy 💗
November 8, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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I don't use AI for the same reason I don't eat tapeworms... I don't like parasites.
November 8, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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This has not gotten much attention, but it should.

Virginia under Youngkin returned to an insanely harsh system where people convicted of any felony lose their voting rights FOR LIFE.

Dems' win this week mean they'll get to advance a constitutional amendment to end lifetime disenfranchisement.
November 7, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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it should be legal to hunt property developers and landlords for sport
November 8, 2025 at 2:40 AM