Nilah "Nine Jobs" Magruder
@nilahmagruder.com
she/her. aka n. romaine white. making books and animated shows. master gardener.
OUT NOW: Creaky Acres.
UP NEXT: Hex and Havoc, Reel Love.
Work and stuff: nilahmagruder.carrd.co
OUT NOW: Creaky Acres.
UP NEXT: Hex and Havoc, Reel Love.
Work and stuff: nilahmagruder.carrd.co
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Hi I worked on THREE 57th NAACP Image Award nominees. Yes, that's how busy I am. Congrats to my crew mates on Ariel and Weather Hunters, and congrats to my partner in horse crimes @calistabrill.bsky.social!
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I'm sure we've all seen the graphic that lays out the United States ' relationship with slavery. It's good, but I never thought it was quite impactful enough. So I made my own.
I've used a few key events, including my birth, to highlight how recent these events are in history.
1 square = 1 year.
I've used a few key events, including my birth, to highlight how recent these events are in history.
1 square = 1 year.
February 16, 2026 at 6:12 PM
I'm sure we've all seen the graphic that lays out the United States ' relationship with slavery. It's good, but I never thought it was quite impactful enough. So I made my own.
I've used a few key events, including my birth, to highlight how recent these events are in history.
1 square = 1 year.
I've used a few key events, including my birth, to highlight how recent these events are in history.
1 square = 1 year.
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Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.
February 15, 2026 at 5:30 PM
Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.
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Reducing systemic racism...
increases white resentment...
which makes it easier for pro-racism candidates to get elected...
which increases systemic racism.
🙂🙃
The system is resistant to change.
Which is why not pandering to white resentment, is such an important focus point.
increases white resentment...
which makes it easier for pro-racism candidates to get elected...
which increases systemic racism.
🙂🙃
The system is resistant to change.
Which is why not pandering to white resentment, is such an important focus point.
February 16, 2026 at 12:48 AM
Reducing systemic racism...
increases white resentment...
which makes it easier for pro-racism candidates to get elected...
which increases systemic racism.
🙂🙃
The system is resistant to change.
Which is why not pandering to white resentment, is such an important focus point.
increases white resentment...
which makes it easier for pro-racism candidates to get elected...
which increases systemic racism.
🙂🙃
The system is resistant to change.
Which is why not pandering to white resentment, is such an important focus point.
Fred Rogers delivered a commencement speech at Dartmouth College at 2002 and it is still somehow relevant today and goodness has a gentler man ever existed
Fred Rogers’ 2002 Dartmouth College Commencement Address
YouTube video by Dartmouth
youtu.be
February 15, 2026 at 12:45 AM
Fred Rogers delivered a commencement speech at Dartmouth College at 2002 and it is still somehow relevant today and goodness has a gentler man ever existed
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Would you give her your heart?
February 14, 2026 at 8:33 PM
Would you give her your heart?
Would you give her your heart?
February 14, 2026 at 8:33 PM
Would you give her your heart?
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I keep seeing fantastic writers with substacks and it's terribly tempting to check out the platform, but this incident from three years ago is why I never do.
NEW: Substack founders finally respond to Substackers Against Nazis. They say Nazis publishing and earning money on their platform is fine with them.
Their full statement here: substack.com/@hamish/note...
Their full statement here: substack.com/@hamish/note...
February 14, 2026 at 2:00 PM
I keep seeing fantastic writers with substacks and it's terribly tempting to check out the platform, but this incident from three years ago is why I never do.
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Me at 20: I’ll have it all figured out by the time I’m 40.
Me at 40: wtf do you mean they rearranged the grocery store
Me at 40: wtf do you mean they rearranged the grocery store
February 13, 2026 at 4:00 AM
Me at 20: I’ll have it all figured out by the time I’m 40.
Me at 40: wtf do you mean they rearranged the grocery store
Me at 40: wtf do you mean they rearranged the grocery store
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These are concentration camps and its our duty as citizens to ensure these things don't get built.
Breaking news: ICE expects to spend $38.3 billion on its plan to acquire warehouses across the U.S. and retrofit them into immigrant detention centers that can hold tens of thousands of people, according to agency documents.
ICE plans to spend $38.3 billion turning warehouses into detention centers
ICE plans to spend $38.3 billion converting warehouses into detention centers, according to planning documents, more than the annual budgets of 22 states.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 14, 2026 at 12:28 AM
These are concentration camps and its our duty as citizens to ensure these things don't get built.
DreamWorks laid me off after three months of struggling to keep my head above water in hands down the most toxic and exploitative work environment I've ever experienced and sometimes I wanna call them up and say
I LIVED JERKS. SUCK IT.
I LIVED JERKS. SUCK IT.
February 14, 2026 at 12:03 AM
DreamWorks laid me off after three months of struggling to keep my head above water in hands down the most toxic and exploitative work environment I've ever experienced and sometimes I wanna call them up and say
I LIVED JERKS. SUCK IT.
I LIVED JERKS. SUCK IT.
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nobody posted the clip anywhere so i went and dug the whole episode up
February 13, 2026 at 5:22 AM
nobody posted the clip anywhere so i went and dug the whole episode up
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February 13, 2026 at 7:28 PM
The thing they don't tell you about working in creative industries is now and then someone's gonna come to you and drop some huge mind-blowing news and then say "oh but don't tell anyone for a to-be-determined amount of time"
February 13, 2026 at 11:40 PM
The thing they don't tell you about working in creative industries is now and then someone's gonna come to you and drop some huge mind-blowing news and then say "oh but don't tell anyone for a to-be-determined amount of time"
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Luda Kinok, a Yupik Indigenous activist originally from Chukotka and now living in the U.S., experienced a rollback of freedoms after Perestroika ended in Russia.
She says it feels eerily familiar as she watches democratic institutions erode in the United States.
She says it feels eerily familiar as she watches democratic institutions erode in the United States.
February 13, 2026 at 5:51 PM
Luda Kinok, a Yupik Indigenous activist originally from Chukotka and now living in the U.S., experienced a rollback of freedoms after Perestroika ended in Russia.
She says it feels eerily familiar as she watches democratic institutions erode in the United States.
She says it feels eerily familiar as she watches democratic institutions erode in the United States.
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I am thrilled to share my new book is available for pre-order! FOX RIVER COMICS CAMP is my dream comic art education book for all-ages, coming Oct 2026. It combines an engaging story with fun activities readers can follow along with! comicarted.com/fox-river-co... www.abramsbooks.com/product/fox-...
February 13, 2026 at 3:28 PM
I am thrilled to share my new book is available for pre-order! FOX RIVER COMICS CAMP is my dream comic art education book for all-ages, coming Oct 2026. It combines an engaging story with fun activities readers can follow along with! comicarted.com/fox-river-co... www.abramsbooks.com/product/fox-...
I'm in an all-day native plant/biodiversity symposium and our keynote speaker is Patrick Cullina, VP of Horticulture at the NYC High Line, in which they turned an abandoned railway into a walkable park with native plants that now provide beauty and support urban wildlife.
15 Years of NYC’s High Line: A Closer Look at Its Impact on Urban Design
Over the past two decades, the High Line’s transformation has mirrored shifting priorities in urban design, with each phase telling a new chapter of the story.
architizer.com
February 13, 2026 at 3:16 PM
I'm in an all-day native plant/biodiversity symposium and our keynote speaker is Patrick Cullina, VP of Horticulture at the NYC High Line, in which they turned an abandoned railway into a walkable park with native plants that now provide beauty and support urban wildlife.
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"Racist people are firing and laying off Black women at three times the rate of other women."
😬Yikes! It sounds bad when you say it like that!
"Black women are losing jobs at 3 times the rate."
Much better! Makes it sound like the Black women just need to be more careful or better at their jobs!
😬Yikes! It sounds bad when you say it like that!
"Black women are losing jobs at 3 times the rate."
Much better! Makes it sound like the Black women just need to be more careful or better at their jobs!
Black Women Are Losing Jobs At Three Times The Rate Of Other Women | Essence
New labor data shows Black women accounted for a disproportionate share of job losses across 2025, especially in federal, education, and care-sector roles.
www.essence.com
February 13, 2026 at 12:01 PM
"Racist people are firing and laying off Black women at three times the rate of other women."
😬Yikes! It sounds bad when you say it like that!
"Black women are losing jobs at 3 times the rate."
Much better! Makes it sound like the Black women just need to be more careful or better at their jobs!
😬Yikes! It sounds bad when you say it like that!
"Black women are losing jobs at 3 times the rate."
Much better! Makes it sound like the Black women just need to be more careful or better at their jobs!
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This is a great thread, but it’s just an odd to me that this conversation KEEPS happening in Trek. It happened in the 60s with Pike’s beep chair, the 80s with Geordi’s visor, in the 2010s with another background disabled extra in Discovery. Eugenics arguments really are tedious and boring.
I have a friend who said, of Starfleet Academy, that this took them out of it - that seeing a person in a wheelchair in the 32nd century seemed unrealistic, since medicine in Star Trek "should be able to cure whatever was wrong with them."
That's not the case, for any number of possible reasons.
That's not the case, for any number of possible reasons.
February 13, 2026 at 11:59 AM
This is a great thread, but it’s just an odd to me that this conversation KEEPS happening in Trek. It happened in the 60s with Pike’s beep chair, the 80s with Geordi’s visor, in the 2010s with another background disabled extra in Discovery. Eugenics arguments really are tedious and boring.
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Including disabled people in our utopian futures pushes back against a eugenicist ideal.
I have a friend who said, of Starfleet Academy, that this took them out of it - that seeing a person in a wheelchair in the 32nd century seemed unrealistic, since medicine in Star Trek "should be able to cure whatever was wrong with them."
That's not the case, for any number of possible reasons.
That's not the case, for any number of possible reasons.
February 13, 2026 at 12:02 AM
Including disabled people in our utopian futures pushes back against a eugenicist ideal.
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not to put too fine a point on it but if we can only use the term concentration camp after the mass extermination has occurred, we have failed to learn some of the most crucial and basic lessons we should have learned from WW2
February 13, 2026 at 12:32 AM
not to put too fine a point on it but if we can only use the term concentration camp after the mass extermination has occurred, we have failed to learn some of the most crucial and basic lessons we should have learned from WW2
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For many, Gaza is yesterday’s news.
For us, it is still today’s reality.
Don’t forget us.
For us, it is still today’s reality.
Don’t forget us.
We lost a lot,
We lost everything.
We’re rebuilding from zero.
And your support means more than words can say.
Hope is still alive with you
chuffed.org/project/1389...
We lost everything.
We’re rebuilding from zero.
And your support means more than words can say.
Hope is still alive with you
chuffed.org/project/1389...
Help Jamal’s family leave the war zone and rebuild their life!
Hi my loves! My name is Caroline, and I created this fundraiser to help Jamal support his family as they fight to survive the genocide in Gaza, evacuate to safety, and eventually rebuild their lives f...
chuffed.org
February 13, 2026 at 12:32 AM
For many, Gaza is yesterday’s news.
For us, it is still today’s reality.
Don’t forget us.
For us, it is still today’s reality.
Don’t forget us.
"My sick mother, my disabled brother, and I are pleading with you😭
Our lives are terrible. We are homeless, living on the sand in a small wooden tent, and the rains have flooded us.
We are sick. We eat contaminated food
We need $200 to buy a tent cover, food, medicine."
chuffed.org/project/1580...
Our lives are terrible. We are homeless, living on the sand in a small wooden tent, and the rains have flooded us.
We are sick. We eat contaminated food
We need $200 to buy a tent cover, food, medicine."
chuffed.org/project/1580...
Help Abood, nurse Hammam and their family in Gaza
Hello !! My name is Sonia. I'm starting this fundraiser to ask for your help for my friend Hammam and his family, who currently live in Gaza 🇵🇸.
chuffed.org
February 12, 2026 at 2:03 PM
"My sick mother, my disabled brother, and I are pleading with you😭
Our lives are terrible. We are homeless, living on the sand in a small wooden tent, and the rains have flooded us.
We are sick. We eat contaminated food
We need $200 to buy a tent cover, food, medicine."
chuffed.org/project/1580...
Our lives are terrible. We are homeless, living on the sand in a small wooden tent, and the rains have flooded us.
We are sick. We eat contaminated food
We need $200 to buy a tent cover, food, medicine."
chuffed.org/project/1580...
At one point, it was US policy that indigenous people were not human beings, because it takes dehumanization to justify the atrocities committed by colonizers.
The only way you can excuse horrors enacted on an oppressed people is to pretend they are something other than human.
The only way you can excuse horrors enacted on an oppressed people is to pretend they are something other than human.
February 12, 2026 at 1:59 PM
At one point, it was US policy that indigenous people were not human beings, because it takes dehumanization to justify the atrocities committed by colonizers.
The only way you can excuse horrors enacted on an oppressed people is to pretend they are something other than human.
The only way you can excuse horrors enacted on an oppressed people is to pretend they are something other than human.
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I’m Not Done With You | Mary Turfah
You cannot harm a corpse, though you can use it to harm others.
thebaffler.com
February 11, 2026 at 5:45 PM
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Screenshotting this and alt texting all of it since it will most likely get deleted because Hammam is Palestinian. It deserves to be seen and not erased.
![A post by Hammam, a known Palestinian nurse here. It is a wuote by an account of a man named Nathan Kalman Lamb who is posting an excerpt from an article. The article reads:
Examining the bodies returned to their people after the most recent so-called ceasefire, Palestinian doctors noted that, in some bodies "the rib cage and ribs were clipped with a sharp saw—a medical saw, a bone saw-and the sternum, along with the central part of the ribs, [were] lifted to allow for the removal of the heart and lungs without damage to the organ being taken." Organ procurement, with few exceptions like skin and cornea, requires that the body be either alive-via brain death-or just-dead—via circulatory death. It is plausible that some Palestinian prisoners' torture led to brain death. It is also possible their torturers felt no need to wait. Palestinian witnesses have reported that some prisoners were alive at the time they were taken for organ extraction. In one batch of bodies, the organs removed were those commonly transplanted: heart, liver, lungs. The transplant surgeon waits for a person to die; the soldier can't. The settler surgeon wields his mastery over the body to serve the state. Here, the surgeon acts as-is—a soldier.
Nathan says hes honestly speechless.
Hammam quotes him to say:
The director of the hospital where I work, Al-Shifa Hospital, stated that the occupation forces returned the bodies of women whose organs were missing. Another source also reported that the occupation forces were using a school in northern Gaza to detain women & civilians and harvest their organs](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ztkrqibfkvmwtfa64r25n4sv/bafkreifs4clyqslx544scmacf6lhpruangn2nnhs4cypijdl2t43amj7ay@jpeg)
February 12, 2026 at 1:49 PM
Screenshotting this and alt texting all of it since it will most likely get deleted because Hammam is Palestinian. It deserves to be seen and not erased.