Sheree Renée Thomas
@shereereneethomas.bsky.social
Award-winning author, poet, Hugo Award-nominated editor
NINE BAR BLUES: Stories from the Ancient Future
MARVEL'S Black Panther: PANTHER'S RAGE novel
AFRICA RISEN and TROUBLE THE WATERS
NYTimes bestselling collab w/ Janelle Monáe on THE MEMORY LIBRARIAN
NINE BAR BLUES: Stories from the Ancient Future
MARVEL'S Black Panther: PANTHER'S RAGE novel
AFRICA RISEN and TROUBLE THE WATERS
NYTimes bestselling collab w/ Janelle Monáe on THE MEMORY LIBRARIAN
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I'll be at the Southern Festival of Books later this month.
@shereereneethomas.bsky.social will talk about how our characters, human or otherwise, face familiar struggles and triumphs, even in deeply unfamiliar landscapes (signing immediately to follow).
www.sofestofbooks.org - admission is free!
@shereereneethomas.bsky.social will talk about how our characters, human or otherwise, face familiar struggles and triumphs, even in deeply unfamiliar landscapes (signing immediately to follow).
www.sofestofbooks.org - admission is free!
October 9, 2025 at 4:08 PM
I'll be at the Southern Festival of Books later this month.
@shereereneethomas.bsky.social will talk about how our characters, human or otherwise, face familiar struggles and triumphs, even in deeply unfamiliar landscapes (signing immediately to follow).
www.sofestofbooks.org - admission is free!
@shereereneethomas.bsky.social will talk about how our characters, human or otherwise, face familiar struggles and triumphs, even in deeply unfamiliar landscapes (signing immediately to follow).
www.sofestofbooks.org - admission is free!
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Attention NYC residents!
on Tuesday, October 14th, there will be a listening party and panel discussion celebrating the release of:
Melvin Gibbs - 𝘼𝙢𝙖𝙨𝙞𝙖: 𝘼𝙣𝙖𝙢𝙞𝙗𝙞𝙖 𝙎𝙚𝙨𝙨𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 𝟮
featuring conversations with @shereereneethomas.bsky.social
& Paul D. Miller (DJ Spooky)
7PM. 154 Orchard. Free w/ RSVP!
on Tuesday, October 14th, there will be a listening party and panel discussion celebrating the release of:
Melvin Gibbs - 𝘼𝙢𝙖𝙨𝙞𝙖: 𝘼𝙣𝙖𝙢𝙞𝙗𝙞𝙖 𝙎𝙚𝙨𝙨𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 𝟮
featuring conversations with @shereereneethomas.bsky.social
& Paul D. Miller (DJ Spooky)
7PM. 154 Orchard. Free w/ RSVP!
October 9, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Attention NYC residents!
on Tuesday, October 14th, there will be a listening party and panel discussion celebrating the release of:
Melvin Gibbs - 𝘼𝙢𝙖𝙨𝙞𝙖: 𝘼𝙣𝙖𝙢𝙞𝙗𝙞𝙖 𝙎𝙚𝙨𝙨𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 𝟮
featuring conversations with @shereereneethomas.bsky.social
& Paul D. Miller (DJ Spooky)
7PM. 154 Orchard. Free w/ RSVP!
on Tuesday, October 14th, there will be a listening party and panel discussion celebrating the release of:
Melvin Gibbs - 𝘼𝙢𝙖𝙨𝙞𝙖: 𝘼𝙣𝙖𝙢𝙞𝙗𝙞𝙖 𝙎𝙚𝙨𝙨𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 𝟮
featuring conversations with @shereereneethomas.bsky.social
& Paul D. Miller (DJ Spooky)
7PM. 154 Orchard. Free w/ RSVP!
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The next Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction will include my Curiosities review on the brilliant Afrofuturist novel Another Present Era by Elaine Perry. Salute to my editor @shereereneethomas.bsky.social
Released in 1990, Perry's only published book was previously featured in @neglectedbooks.com
Released in 1990, Perry's only published book was previously featured in @neglectedbooks.com
September 1, 2025 at 4:15 PM
The next Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction will include my Curiosities review on the brilliant Afrofuturist novel Another Present Era by Elaine Perry. Salute to my editor @shereereneethomas.bsky.social
Released in 1990, Perry's only published book was previously featured in @neglectedbooks.com
Released in 1990, Perry's only published book was previously featured in @neglectedbooks.com
😍
@shereereneethomas.bsky.social’s Love Hangover is the most splendid reimagining of the siren I’ve read
September 21, 2025 at 7:00 PM
😍
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Meet Flights of Foundry Guest of Honour for Editing
Sheree Renée Thomas, an award-winning fiction writer, poet, editor, and curator.
Sheree Renée Thomas, an award-winning fiction writer, poet, editor, and curator.
September 15, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Meet Flights of Foundry Guest of Honour for Editing
Sheree Renée Thomas, an award-winning fiction writer, poet, editor, and curator.
Sheree Renée Thomas, an award-winning fiction writer, poet, editor, and curator.
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F151 is off the printers! A special issue on 'women in the black fantastic' with features by Nisi Shawl and Sheree Renee Thomas. If you want to become a member of the SFF, you can join via the website.
www.sf-foundation.org/new-membersh...
www.sf-foundation.org/new-membersh...
MEMBERSHIP | SF Foundation Org
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August 27, 2025 at 10:45 AM
F151 is off the printers! A special issue on 'women in the black fantastic' with features by Nisi Shawl and Sheree Renee Thomas. If you want to become a member of the SFF, you can join via the website.
www.sf-foundation.org/new-membersh...
www.sf-foundation.org/new-membersh...
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If you haven't already read this story by @shereereneethomas.bsky.social you should go read it today!
@lightspeedmagazine.com
@lightspeedmagazine.com
"My story begins when my world ended, the day my sister shoved me into the ancestors’ altar."
Another gorgeous story by @shereereneethomas.bsky.social
@lightspeedmagazine.com
Another gorgeous story by @shereereneethomas.bsky.social
@lightspeedmagazine.com
Ancestries - Lightspeed Magazine
In the beginning were the ancestors, gods of earth who breathed the air and walked in flesh. Their backs were straight and their temples tall. We carved the ancestors from the scented wood, before the...
www.lightspeedmagazine.com
August 6, 2025 at 4:43 PM
If you haven't already read this story by @shereereneethomas.bsky.social you should go read it today!
@lightspeedmagazine.com
@lightspeedmagazine.com
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"I remember the place
where nightflies sing like stars"
Excited to look at poetry from @shereereneethomas.bsky.social this week!
"The Nightflies" in @mythicdelirium.bsky.social !
where nightflies sing like stars"
Excited to look at poetry from @shereereneethomas.bsky.social this week!
"The Nightflies" in @mythicdelirium.bsky.social !
Featured Poem II • January 2015 • Mythic Delirium Books
The Nightflies Sheree Renée Thomas I remember the place where nightflies sing like stars their gilded wings reflect the dark moon’s glide metallic shimmer, rhythmic hum beat out a windblown patt...
mythicdelirium.com
August 7, 2025 at 8:37 PM
"I remember the place
where nightflies sing like stars"
Excited to look at poetry from @shereereneethomas.bsky.social this week!
"The Nightflies" in @mythicdelirium.bsky.social !
where nightflies sing like stars"
Excited to look at poetry from @shereereneethomas.bsky.social this week!
"The Nightflies" in @mythicdelirium.bsky.social !
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We had such a wonderful conversation this morning! Thanks @shereereneethomas.bsky.social for sharing so much about your writing inspiration and process 😊
This week’s guest is Sheree Renée Thomas! Excited to dive into Sheree’s stories!
First up is "Downwinders" in Far Futures. Read along with us!
Don't miss the author's statement!
@shereereneethomas.bsky.social
First up is "Downwinders" in Far Futures. Read along with us!
Don't miss the author's statement!
@shereereneethomas.bsky.social
Downwinders by Sheree Renée Thomas
Downwinders is set in White Sands, New Mexico, where the first atomic bomb was detonated in 1945. In the story the Earth, free from the weight of our weapons, starts healing itself.Read acclaimed sci-...
farfutures.horizon2045.org
August 9, 2025 at 4:23 PM
We had such a wonderful conversation this morning! Thanks @shereereneethomas.bsky.social for sharing so much about your writing inspiration and process 😊
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An amazing evening discussing ecology and lyricism with @shereereneethomas.bsky.social and @electricsheepsf.bsky.social including Thistle's gorgeous story in @pseudopod.org pseudopod.org/2025/04/11/p...
PseudoPod 971: Tree of the Forest Seven Bells Turns the World Round Midnight
Thistle stepped over an upturned root that twisted from the dark, wet earth. “Your mama live near the river?” “Naw.” “Your mama live in a tree?” “Nope.” “Then what we doing?” “Mama the river and the…
pseudopod.org
August 10, 2025 at 4:26 AM
An amazing evening discussing ecology and lyricism with @shereereneethomas.bsky.social and @electricsheepsf.bsky.social including Thistle's gorgeous story in @pseudopod.org pseudopod.org/2025/04/11/p...
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The journey so far. #gencon #afrofuturism @mauricebroaddus.bsky.social @shereereneethomas.bsky.social Khaldoun Khelil, @daniandarrelljerry.bsky.social
July 31, 2025 at 9:21 PM
The journey so far. #gencon #afrofuturism @mauricebroaddus.bsky.social @shereereneethomas.bsky.social Khaldoun Khelil, @daniandarrelljerry.bsky.social
Speculative fiction writers! Build global community & hone your craft in Tepoztlán, Mexico! 🇲🇽 I'm Sheree Renée Thomas, leading "Writing the Imagination" at Under the Volcano
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Apply for the Imagination Unbound Fellowship!
underthevolcano.org/fellowship/t...
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Apply for the Imagination Unbound Fellowship!
underthevolcano.org/fellowship/t...
Sheree Renée Thomas - Under The Volcano
The award-winning speculative fiction writer and editor Sheree Renée Thomas will lead her popular master class covering science fiction, fantasy, and other expectation-defying works of the imagination...
underthevolcano.org
July 29, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Speculative fiction writers! Build global community & hone your craft in Tepoztlán, Mexico! 🇲🇽 I'm Sheree Renée Thomas, leading "Writing the Imagination" at Under the Volcano
underthevolcano.org/sheree-renee...
Apply for the Imagination Unbound Fellowship!
underthevolcano.org/fellowship/t...
underthevolcano.org/sheree-renee...
Apply for the Imagination Unbound Fellowship!
underthevolcano.org/fellowship/t...
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PRESS RELEASE
Announcing the Afterlives 2024 Table of Contents!!
curated by @shereereneethomas.bsky.social
"This Afterlives collection has some very powerful, gifted voices that explore liminal spaces, the veil between this world and the possible next."
thread/
psychopomp.com/announcing-t...
Announcing the Afterlives 2024 Table of Contents!!
curated by @shereereneethomas.bsky.social
"This Afterlives collection has some very powerful, gifted voices that explore liminal spaces, the veil between this world and the possible next."
thread/
psychopomp.com/announcing-t...
Announcing the Afterlives 2024 Table of Contents - PSYCHOPOMP.COM
You've been waiting for it, and now it is here, delivered hot and fresh to your browser, a table of contents for Afterlives 2024: The Year's Best Death
psychopomp.com
July 22, 2025 at 4:29 PM
PRESS RELEASE
Announcing the Afterlives 2024 Table of Contents!!
curated by @shereereneethomas.bsky.social
"This Afterlives collection has some very powerful, gifted voices that explore liminal spaces, the veil between this world and the possible next."
thread/
psychopomp.com/announcing-t...
Announcing the Afterlives 2024 Table of Contents!!
curated by @shereereneethomas.bsky.social
"This Afterlives collection has some very powerful, gifted voices that explore liminal spaces, the veil between this world and the possible next."
thread/
psychopomp.com/announcing-t...
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Excited to see that one of my best short stories yet, "How to Get Away with Living," published by Flame Tree Press, will find more readers. Incredibly honored to be among such brilliant writers. Thanks to the amazing @shereereneethomas.bsky.social for selecting my story for this anthology.
PRESS RELEASE
Announcing the Afterlives 2024 Table of Contents!!
curated by @shereereneethomas.bsky.social
"This Afterlives collection has some very powerful, gifted voices that explore liminal spaces, the veil between this world and the possible next."
thread/
psychopomp.com/announcing-t...
Announcing the Afterlives 2024 Table of Contents!!
curated by @shereereneethomas.bsky.social
"This Afterlives collection has some very powerful, gifted voices that explore liminal spaces, the veil between this world and the possible next."
thread/
psychopomp.com/announcing-t...
Announcing the Afterlives 2024 Table of Contents - PSYCHOPOMP.COM
You've been waiting for it, and now it is here, delivered hot and fresh to your browser, a table of contents for Afterlives 2024: The Year's Best Death
psychopomp.com
July 23, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Excited to see that one of my best short stories yet, "How to Get Away with Living," published by Flame Tree Press, will find more readers. Incredibly honored to be among such brilliant writers. Thanks to the amazing @shereereneethomas.bsky.social for selecting my story for this anthology.
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EXCLUSIVE Titan Preview: Black Panther: Panther’s Rage - An all-new re-imagining of the legendary Black Panther comics arc, Panther’s Rage, from an award-winning author.
#BlackPanther @titanbooks.bsky.social @shereereneethomas.bsky.social
Read the excerpt here:
#BlackPanther @titanbooks.bsky.social @shereereneethomas.bsky.social
Read the excerpt here:
EXCLUSIVE Titan Preview: Black Panther: Panther’s Rage
An all-new re-imagining of the legendary Black Panther comics arc, Panther’s Rage, from an award-winning author.
aiptcomics.com
June 26, 2025 at 3:54 PM
EXCLUSIVE Titan Preview: Black Panther: Panther’s Rage - An all-new re-imagining of the legendary Black Panther comics arc, Panther’s Rage, from an award-winning author.
#BlackPanther @titanbooks.bsky.social @shereereneethomas.bsky.social
Read the excerpt here:
#BlackPanther @titanbooks.bsky.social @shereereneethomas.bsky.social
Read the excerpt here:
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Really happy that ‘Slickerthin,’ published last year in F&SF, gets a mention in the ‘Notable Stories’ section of Best American SFF 2025! Thanks so much to the editors @johnjosephadams.com and @nnedi.bsky.social, and congrats to the all the other authors here! 🥳
May 17, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Really happy that ‘Slickerthin,’ published last year in F&SF, gets a mention in the ‘Notable Stories’ section of Best American SFF 2025! Thanks so much to the editors @johnjosephadams.com and @nnedi.bsky.social, and congrats to the all the other authors here! 🥳
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So excited for the release! Thanks again for the opportunity! 🧭 👻💖
It's here! 🗺️✨ Lesley Connor & I are ecstatic to share that The Map of Lost Places debuts TODAY!
So grateful for our amazing contributors & the Apex Books team for bringing this vision of strange & haunted realms to life.
Find your way to hidden worlds here:
www.apexbookcompany.com/blogs/frontp...
So grateful for our amazing contributors & the Apex Books team for bringing this vision of strange & haunted realms to life.
Find your way to hidden worlds here:
www.apexbookcompany.com/blogs/frontp...
May 1, 2025 at 12:34 AM
So excited for the release! Thanks again for the opportunity! 🧭 👻💖
It's here! 🗺️✨ Lesley Connor & I are ecstatic to share that The Map of Lost Places debuts TODAY!
So grateful for our amazing contributors & the Apex Books team for bringing this vision of strange & haunted realms to life.
Find your way to hidden worlds here:
www.apexbookcompany.com/blogs/frontp...
So grateful for our amazing contributors & the Apex Books team for bringing this vision of strange & haunted realms to life.
Find your way to hidden worlds here:
www.apexbookcompany.com/blogs/frontp...
April 29, 2025 at 6:22 PM
It's here! 🗺️✨ Lesley Connor & I are ecstatic to share that The Map of Lost Places debuts TODAY!
So grateful for our amazing contributors & the Apex Books team for bringing this vision of strange & haunted realms to life.
Find your way to hidden worlds here:
www.apexbookcompany.com/blogs/frontp...
So grateful for our amazing contributors & the Apex Books team for bringing this vision of strange & haunted realms to life.
Find your way to hidden worlds here:
www.apexbookcompany.com/blogs/frontp...
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“Thistle stepped over an upturned root that twisted from the dark, wet earth.”
Tree of the Forest Seven Bells Turns the World Round Midnight
by Sheree Renée Thomas
Narrator: Premee Mohamed
Host: Alasdair Stuart
Audio: Chelsea Davis
This story first appeared in Sleeping Under the Tree of Life
Tree of the Forest Seven Bells Turns the World Round Midnight
by Sheree Renée Thomas
Narrator: Premee Mohamed
Host: Alasdair Stuart
Audio: Chelsea Davis
This story first appeared in Sleeping Under the Tree of Life
PseudoPod 971: Tree of the Forest Seven Bells Turns the World Round Midnight
Thistle stepped over an upturned root that twisted from the dark, wet earth. “Your mama live near the river?” “Naw.” “Your mama live in a tree?” “Nope.” “Then what we doing?” “Mama the river and the…
pseudopod.org
April 11, 2025 at 5:27 PM
“Thistle stepped over an upturned root that twisted from the dark, wet earth.”
Tree of the Forest Seven Bells Turns the World Round Midnight
by Sheree Renée Thomas
Narrator: Premee Mohamed
Host: Alasdair Stuart
Audio: Chelsea Davis
This story first appeared in Sleeping Under the Tree of Life
Tree of the Forest Seven Bells Turns the World Round Midnight
by Sheree Renée Thomas
Narrator: Premee Mohamed
Host: Alasdair Stuart
Audio: Chelsea Davis
This story first appeared in Sleeping Under the Tree of Life
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Half way thru AFRICA RISEN: A New Era of Speculative Fiction, @shereereneethomas.bsky.social, ed.
A few faves so far:
-March Magic, WC Dunlap
-The Soul Would Have No Rainbow, @yvettel.bsky.social
-A Dream of Electric Mothers, @wtalabi.bsky.social
-Simbi, Sandra Jackson-Opoku
#BookSky #SFF 🪐📚
A few faves so far:
-March Magic, WC Dunlap
-The Soul Would Have No Rainbow, @yvettel.bsky.social
-A Dream of Electric Mothers, @wtalabi.bsky.social
-Simbi, Sandra Jackson-Opoku
#BookSky #SFF 🪐📚
April 21, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Half way thru AFRICA RISEN: A New Era of Speculative Fiction, @shereereneethomas.bsky.social, ed.
A few faves so far:
-March Magic, WC Dunlap
-The Soul Would Have No Rainbow, @yvettel.bsky.social
-A Dream of Electric Mothers, @wtalabi.bsky.social
-Simbi, Sandra Jackson-Opoku
#BookSky #SFF 🪐📚
A few faves so far:
-March Magic, WC Dunlap
-The Soul Would Have No Rainbow, @yvettel.bsky.social
-A Dream of Electric Mothers, @wtalabi.bsky.social
-Simbi, Sandra Jackson-Opoku
#BookSky #SFF 🪐📚
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Nice review of The Map of Lost Places! www.danscifi.com/post/newrele...
"You'll find a delectable smorgasbord in this anthology if you're interested in yarns exploring the creepy, insidious side of evil."
The Map of Lost Places, which I edited with @shereereneethomas.bsky.social, comes out 4/29!
"You'll find a delectable smorgasbord in this anthology if you're interested in yarns exploring the creepy, insidious side of evil."
The Map of Lost Places, which I edited with @shereereneethomas.bsky.social, comes out 4/29!
#NewRelease The Map of Lost Places: Stories from Strange and Haunted
Recently, Apex contacted me to review their newest anthology, The Map of Lost Places. Since I'm getting back into taking review requests aft
www.danscifi.com
April 24, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Nice review of The Map of Lost Places! www.danscifi.com/post/newrele...
"You'll find a delectable smorgasbord in this anthology if you're interested in yarns exploring the creepy, insidious side of evil."
The Map of Lost Places, which I edited with @shereereneethomas.bsky.social, comes out 4/29!
"You'll find a delectable smorgasbord in this anthology if you're interested in yarns exploring the creepy, insidious side of evil."
The Map of Lost Places, which I edited with @shereereneethomas.bsky.social, comes out 4/29!
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Our annual conference, Flights of Foundry, is OPEN for registration!
Check out our Guests of Honour: Sheree Renée Thomas for editing, Vajra Chandrasekera for prose, and Anna Martino for Translation.
Sign up today! 👇👇👇
flights-of-foundry.org/
Check out our Guests of Honour: Sheree Renée Thomas for editing, Vajra Chandrasekera for prose, and Anna Martino for Translation.
Sign up today! 👇👇👇
flights-of-foundry.org/
April 29, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Our annual conference, Flights of Foundry, is OPEN for registration!
Check out our Guests of Honour: Sheree Renée Thomas for editing, Vajra Chandrasekera for prose, and Anna Martino for Translation.
Sign up today! 👇👇👇
flights-of-foundry.org/
Check out our Guests of Honour: Sheree Renée Thomas for editing, Vajra Chandrasekera for prose, and Anna Martino for Translation.
Sign up today! 👇👇👇
flights-of-foundry.org/
Los Angeles AWP visitors! Obsidian turns 50. Meet us at booth T366. Panel: "Obsidian at 50—Activating the Archive," Thurs, March 27, 1:45pm PT, featuring Duriel E. Harris, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Douglas Kearney, and Sheree Renée Thomas.
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mailchi.mp/e9ec5ec6d02b... #AWP25 #ObsidianLit #BlackLiterature
March 26, 2025 at 6:31 AM
Los Angeles AWP visitors! Obsidian turns 50. Meet us at booth T366. Panel: "Obsidian at 50—Activating the Archive," Thurs, March 27, 1:45pm PT, featuring Duriel E. Harris, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Douglas Kearney, and Sheree Renée Thomas.
mailchi.mp/e9ec5ec6d02b... #AWP25 #ObsidianLit #BlackLiterature
mailchi.mp/e9ec5ec6d02b... #AWP25 #ObsidianLit #BlackLiterature
I don’t usually post on here, but for those still lurking on this app, I appreciate your posting good news when you can. I have some nice, unusual news. I was honored by the Memphis Alumnae Chapter of DST ♥️🤍with the Keeper of the Cultural Flame Award. As an AKA 💗💚 I am doubly honored, thank you!
March 24, 2025 at 4:07 PM
I don’t usually post on here, but for those still lurking on this app, I appreciate your posting good news when you can. I have some nice, unusual news. I was honored by the Memphis Alumnae Chapter of DST ♥️🤍with the Keeper of the Cultural Flame Award. As an AKA 💗💚 I am doubly honored, thank you!