nye-ee-luh
@narthews.bsky.social
• black nonbinary lesbian
• part time poet, full time pain in the ass
• author of BETTER HANDS 🌷 out 04/25
• periplus + wild seeds '22, anaphora + grubstreet '23, roots. wounds. words. '24
• nailahwritesnovels.com | they/them
• part time poet, full time pain in the ass
• author of BETTER HANDS 🌷 out 04/25
• periplus + wild seeds '22, anaphora + grubstreet '23, roots. wounds. words. '24
• nailahwritesnovels.com | they/them
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@narthews.bsky.social
· Sep 16
Nailah Mathews • better hands • Print + E-book - Newfound
better hands • Print + E-book Summary Who breaks the cycle, and what does breaking it cost? Winner of the 2023 Anzaldúa Poetry Prize, better hands eulogizes legacies of violence, underscored by a ferv...
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fair warning: these poems bite back 🌷please continue reading if you experience the following: persistent desire, the urge to give birth to a bird of hell or pick your teeth with an orbitoclast. some also experienced pre-grief for perfect strangers, resentment, reverence, and gender euphoria.
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My due date is very close, and all I wish is to welcome my baby into a warm and safe place.
But until now, I haven't been able to prepare the essentials —not for the birth, nor for my newborn.
I truly need your help and support, even a little, to greet her with dignity and care.
gofund.me/8bc2934b.
But until now, I haven't been able to prepare the essentials —not for the birth, nor for my newborn.
I truly need your help and support, even a little, to greet her with dignity and care.
gofund.me/8bc2934b.
November 26, 2025 at 4:05 PM
My due date is very close, and all I wish is to welcome my baby into a warm and safe place.
But until now, I haven't been able to prepare the essentials —not for the birth, nor for my newborn.
I truly need your help and support, even a little, to greet her with dignity and care.
gofund.me/8bc2934b.
But until now, I haven't been able to prepare the essentials —not for the birth, nor for my newborn.
I truly need your help and support, even a little, to greet her with dignity and care.
gofund.me/8bc2934b.
for Yophie, it's absolutely the loss of her little sister Ysandre. as abdicate and convoy, blame for Ysa's (accidental) death falls at Yophie's feet, which knocks her into a bender so severe she shows up hammered to Ysa's wake. making up for that is a massive part of Yophie's sobriety and narrative
What’s the biggest event from your MC’s past that informs who they are now? #WritingPrompt
November 26, 2025 at 3:41 PM
for Yophie, it's absolutely the loss of her little sister Ysandre. as abdicate and convoy, blame for Ysa's (accidental) death falls at Yophie's feet, which knocks her into a bender so severe she shows up hammered to Ysa's wake. making up for that is a massive part of Yophie's sobriety and narrative
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I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Kawthar. Kawthar has a chronic illness she needs medicine for and her husband has progressive hearing loss. They are trying care for their 5 children, 3 of whom were injured in a bombing Essa, 15, Sahar, 13, Naghma, 11, Dima, 8 and Mohammed, 5
November 26, 2025 at 10:22 AM
I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Kawthar. Kawthar has a chronic illness she needs medicine for and her husband has progressive hearing loss. They are trying care for their 5 children, 3 of whom were injured in a bombing Essa, 15, Sahar, 13, Naghma, 11, Dima, 8 and Mohammed, 5
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Every literary festival or theatre should condemn this, but as Sonia says, they won’t. They will cowardly disguise themselves by saying it’s “politics” and that they aren’t “political”. The storming of the National Theatre of Palestine is a crime not only on Palestinians, but on Palestinian art.
I can’t wait for PEN to comment on the Israeli intelligence forces storming the Palestinian National Theatre in Jerusalem and threatening the whole cast of the children’s performance and the audience if they didn’t leave in five minutes.
Because they won’t.
Because they won’t.
November 24, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Every literary festival or theatre should condemn this, but as Sonia says, they won’t. They will cowardly disguise themselves by saying it’s “politics” and that they aren’t “political”. The storming of the National Theatre of Palestine is a crime not only on Palestinians, but on Palestinian art.
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Help us send 2,000 books to readers who are incarcerated this winter through our Books Not Bars program
Books Not Bars 2025 Holiday Campaign
BOOKS NOT BARS FOR THE HOLIDAYS
Haymarket Books is committed to making our books available for free to people who are incarcerated.
In an effort to support those inside who are dealing with the imm...
haymarketbooks.app.neoncrm.com
November 23, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Help us send 2,000 books to readers who are incarcerated this winter through our Books Not Bars program
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Politically I think we could all learn something from bonobos where if any one male tries to take too much power they will beat him to death and have lesbian sex on his corpse
November 25, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Politically I think we could all learn something from bonobos where if any one male tries to take too much power they will beat him to death and have lesbian sex on his corpse
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Has anyone tried having enough money?
November 25, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Has anyone tried having enough money?
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(A) stop feeling pressure to be perfect;
(B) normalize asking questions, because that is normalizing learning;
(C) do not ask AI if your turkey is done; ask a meat thermometer
(B) normalize asking questions, because that is normalizing learning;
(C) do not ask AI if your turkey is done; ask a meat thermometer
This is so soulless, I can't stand it. We have BRAINS. We can USE THEM.
November 25, 2025 at 5:56 PM
(A) stop feeling pressure to be perfect;
(B) normalize asking questions, because that is normalizing learning;
(C) do not ask AI if your turkey is done; ask a meat thermometer
(B) normalize asking questions, because that is normalizing learning;
(C) do not ask AI if your turkey is done; ask a meat thermometer
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Great thread and a good historic lesson on how vital the freedom of movement is, which highlights how much concern we should have with a national surveillance system that flags “suspicious” travel patterns.
This Day in Labor History: November 25, 1865. Mississippi created the first of the Black Codes. Designed to recreate slavery in all but name, this signified the South’s resistance to the freeing of their labor force and the lengths to which it would go to tie workers to a place under white control.
November 25, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Great thread and a good historic lesson on how vital the freedom of movement is, which highlights how much concern we should have with a national surveillance system that flags “suspicious” travel patterns.
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Happy Mid Autumn Festival! 🥮 I’m thrilled to share the cover of #TheGirlWithAThousandFaces, coming 5 May 2026 from @torbooks.bsky.social! ⭐The Girl with a Thousand Faces is a Chinese-Gothic tale set in a historical Hong Kong.
Cover art by Lindsey Carr, Cover design by Shreya Gupta
Cover art by Lindsey Carr, Cover design by Shreya Gupta
October 6, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Happy Mid Autumn Festival! 🥮 I’m thrilled to share the cover of #TheGirlWithAThousandFaces, coming 5 May 2026 from @torbooks.bsky.social! ⭐The Girl with a Thousand Faces is a Chinese-Gothic tale set in a historical Hong Kong.
Cover art by Lindsey Carr, Cover design by Shreya Gupta
Cover art by Lindsey Carr, Cover design by Shreya Gupta
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Please stop using language that suggests that people with criminal records are appropriate targets for this administration's violence. One in three adults has a criminal record. Stop playing sacrifice games with fascists. Stop surrendering entire categories of people in your own mind.
November 15, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Please stop using language that suggests that people with criminal records are appropriate targets for this administration's violence. One in three adults has a criminal record. Stop playing sacrifice games with fascists. Stop surrendering entire categories of people in your own mind.
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It's kind of a damned-if-you-do, damned-if-you-don't situation. Yeah, Twitter is a Nazi bar, but Bluesky administration are actively complicit in genocide. No matter which platform we choose, we're implicitly offering support and popularity to some truly reprehensible scum.
November 25, 2025 at 11:51 AM
It's kind of a damned-if-you-do, damned-if-you-don't situation. Yeah, Twitter is a Nazi bar, but Bluesky administration are actively complicit in genocide. No matter which platform we choose, we're implicitly offering support and popularity to some truly reprehensible scum.
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"Sharing my little, teal hormone tablets
with the trans girl who spent the night
was a communion infinitely more holy"
—Willow Sipling
beestungmag.com/issue25/one-...
with the trans girl who spent the night
was a communion infinitely more holy"
—Willow Sipling
beestungmag.com/issue25/one-...
One Poem by Willow Sipling – beestung
beestungmag.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:52 PM
"Sharing my little, teal hormone tablets
with the trans girl who spent the night
was a communion infinitely more holy"
—Willow Sipling
beestungmag.com/issue25/one-...
with the trans girl who spent the night
was a communion infinitely more holy"
—Willow Sipling
beestungmag.com/issue25/one-...
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Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest survivor of The Tulsa Race Massacre passed away. Let’s honor her memory by remembering her story
November 25, 2025 at 4:47 AM
Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest survivor of The Tulsa Race Massacre passed away. Let’s honor her memory by remembering her story
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We are carrying so much more grief than we are allowed to name publicly
November 25, 2025 at 7:04 AM
We are carrying so much more grief than we are allowed to name publicly
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Random anime recommendation:
Angelic Layer🪽
Did you know it’s the prequel to Chobits?
Angelic Layer🪽
Did you know it’s the prequel to Chobits?
November 24, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Random anime recommendation:
Angelic Layer🪽
Did you know it’s the prequel to Chobits?
Angelic Layer🪽
Did you know it’s the prequel to Chobits?
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This is so incredible. You have to see the photos. These workers held the line for THREE YEARS www.publicsource.org/post-gazette...
November 25, 2025 at 5:29 AM
This is so incredible. You have to see the photos. These workers held the line for THREE YEARS www.publicsource.org/post-gazette...
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James Baldwin to Angela Davis in 1970, discussing white Americans:
October 5, 2025 at 5:19 PM
James Baldwin to Angela Davis in 1970, discussing white Americans:
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Indigenous Peoples' Month, Fact 3:
everyone should know more about Indigenous women and colonial resistance history.
#IPM #IndigenousPeoplesMonth
everyone should know more about Indigenous women and colonial resistance history.
#IPM #IndigenousPeoplesMonth
Margaret talks to Jamie Loftus about Shawnee resistance to the American colonialism and a woman who led them in battle
@margaret.bsky.social @jamieloftus.bsky.social @whysophiewhy.bsky.social
www.iheart.com/podcast/1119...
@margaret.bsky.social @jamieloftus.bsky.social @whysophiewhy.bsky.social
www.iheart.com/podcast/1119...
November 25, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Indigenous Peoples' Month, Fact 3:
everyone should know more about Indigenous women and colonial resistance history.
#IPM #IndigenousPeoplesMonth
everyone should know more about Indigenous women and colonial resistance history.
#IPM #IndigenousPeoplesMonth
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My goodness, Baldwin could had written this last week.
October 5, 2025 at 5:26 PM
My goodness, Baldwin could had written this last week.
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There is no electricity. No clean water.
Only silence between each new explosion.
✅ Read more on my page.
tinyurl.com/StillNotSafe
Only silence between each new explosion.
✅ Read more on my page.
tinyurl.com/StillNotSafe
October 31, 2025 at 11:44 AM
There is no electricity. No clean water.
Only silence between each new explosion.
✅ Read more on my page.
tinyurl.com/StillNotSafe
Only silence between each new explosion.
✅ Read more on my page.
tinyurl.com/StillNotSafe
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A man died today at the Rikers Island jail complex. He was just hours away from an expected release.
This year, 13 people have now died in the NYC jails. That is *nearly triple* the number of people who died in the NYC jails in all of 2024. www.thecity.nyc/2025/11/21/r...
This year, 13 people have now died in the NYC jails. That is *nearly triple* the number of people who died in the NYC jails in all of 2024. www.thecity.nyc/2025/11/21/r...
Hours Before Expected Release, Rikers Detainee Dies After Apparent Seizure
Edwin Ramos, 38, was slated to plead guilty and walk free Friday morning. Instead, he became the 13th person to die in city custody this year.
www.thecity.nyc
November 21, 2025 at 9:43 PM
A man died today at the Rikers Island jail complex. He was just hours away from an expected release.
This year, 13 people have now died in the NYC jails. That is *nearly triple* the number of people who died in the NYC jails in all of 2024. www.thecity.nyc/2025/11/21/r...
This year, 13 people have now died in the NYC jails. That is *nearly triple* the number of people who died in the NYC jails in all of 2024. www.thecity.nyc/2025/11/21/r...
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Friends, this is a low hanging boycott action.
Similar to Hulu and Disney+ actions.
You can help turn the tide and it will make other platforms think twice.
The working class has much more power than they think.
Similar to Hulu and Disney+ actions.
You can help turn the tide and it will make other platforms think twice.
The working class has much more power than they think.
Spotify is helping ICE recruit more agents to infringe our rights and terrorize our communities. Stop paying for or using the app until Spotify stops running ads for ICE: indivisible.org/cancel-spotify?source=bluesky
November 21, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Friends, this is a low hanging boycott action.
Similar to Hulu and Disney+ actions.
You can help turn the tide and it will make other platforms think twice.
The working class has much more power than they think.
Similar to Hulu and Disney+ actions.
You can help turn the tide and it will make other platforms think twice.
The working class has much more power than they think.
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🌟 NOVEMBER ART RAFFLE 🌟
Currently in a drawing slump and I want something to draw, so feel free to participate and win a drawing
Followers only
Like and repost
Share a fun/interesting fact (won't determine a winner, just think it'd be fun 😊)
Nov 4th-Nov 20th
Fanart and OCs
NSFW requests welcome
Currently in a drawing slump and I want something to draw, so feel free to participate and win a drawing
Followers only
Like and repost
Share a fun/interesting fact (won't determine a winner, just think it'd be fun 😊)
Nov 4th-Nov 20th
Fanart and OCs
NSFW requests welcome
November 5, 2025 at 4:31 AM
🌟 NOVEMBER ART RAFFLE 🌟
Currently in a drawing slump and I want something to draw, so feel free to participate and win a drawing
Followers only
Like and repost
Share a fun/interesting fact (won't determine a winner, just think it'd be fun 😊)
Nov 4th-Nov 20th
Fanart and OCs
NSFW requests welcome
Currently in a drawing slump and I want something to draw, so feel free to participate and win a drawing
Followers only
Like and repost
Share a fun/interesting fact (won't determine a winner, just think it'd be fun 😊)
Nov 4th-Nov 20th
Fanart and OCs
NSFW requests welcome