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Stephanie Maria
@staylokey.bsky.social
Poet | Writer | Filmmaker | Educator | 92%🔵
Mood Reader & Writer | Storyteller 🗣️📸📖🎬

I ❤️ reading 📖, writing ✍🏾, listening 🎧, & watching stories 📺 and giving my ✌️🏾cents.

I support:🧘🏾‍♀️🐦‍🔥✊🏾🍉💕🌈🏳️‍⚧️📚🧠👸🏾♈️🗳️

*All content is ©️ by me unless credited.
Pinned
never pick fight with a poet
before you know it, they’ll
embarrass you with epithets
attack you with alliterations
mock you with metaphors
annoy you with analogies
scorch you with symbolism
lance you with literary devices
dragging every defense down
you won’t last another round

#writer #bvm #poetry
Cheers to #ZohranMamdani

I hear hope
ring church bells in #NewYork
sing solidarity— power the people
#voting booths roar— we’re equals
let’s flip birds to the system
November 6, 2025 at 1:28 PM
This was a cute age gap love story between a single mom and her kid’s coach. They both spend a beautiful vacation together during carnival, and spiciness ensues! You’ll root for the couple to get out of their way & simply love. 🥰 This was a really fun Summer read!

#bvm #blackbooksky #booksky
#books
August 17, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Y’all, this story felt SO real! I thought it was a true story! I’m over here googling, trying to figure out who the villain of the story is 😮‍💨 I was angry and sad, but I calmed down when I learned it was fictional. LOL 😅 But that lets you know how AMAZING this story is! 💕
#poetry #prose #bvm #booksky
August 2, 2025 at 4:38 PM
“We Should All Be Feminist…” The author argues this point with precision…😌 A beautiful short read, listen, or TEDTalk watch that outlines, with witty commentary 😏, what it means to be a feminist from a feminist. No worries, all genders are called to the carpet for real talk.

#blackbooksky #booksky
July 26, 2025 at 4:23 PM
THIS book is an entire MOOD!! 🥹 Warsan, whose poetry is in the interludes between songs in THE QUEEN 🐝’s Lemonade album, doesn’t disappoint!! Her words travel through love, loss, identity, and home, charged by her Somali-British heritage.

#blackbooksky #booksky #bvm
#blacksky #beyonce #poetry #poet
July 19, 2025 at 10:46 AM
As an educator obsessed with unknown or hidden Black history, I ADORED this read HON-EY!!! 😍 I wanted MORE STORIES!!! 😩 I hope there's a 2nd book in the making… 😏

#blackbooksky #booksky #bvm
#queer #harlem #book #LGBTQIA+
#blacksky #blackwriter #blackhistory

Photo credit: www.ebar.com/story/153643
July 18, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Another life-changing read!!!😌🥰 Radical self-love is the only path forward to healing mass insecurities, as well as arresting body shaming thoughts, and releasing judgment of other body types. Open this book and get ready to be lovingly challenged.💕

#blackbooksky #booksky #bvm #bodypositivity #love
July 17, 2025 at 3:25 PM
If you're looking for a quick read to end June #Pride with pizzazz, enjoy Brontez Purnell’s book. They are a WHOLE MOOD! You feel a roller coaster of emotions. Just let your stomach flip & your hair toss in the wind. I guarantee it’s worth the wild journey. ✌🏾😘
#booksky #blackbooksky #poetry #bvm
June 28, 2025 at 4:18 PM
This is an excerpt from the #poem “Home” written by Warsan Shire. Every word hit me like bricks! 🧱
🥺😮‍💨🫰🏾🔥 #human #home #poetry
June 26, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Trump shows force like
a big baby with a torch
fumbling through court.
You’re a jester performing
for yourself—MAGA cheers
from a hung jury
helping you commit war crimes.
Where is Congress to reel you in?
Impeach him for his sins.
This is unconstitutional,
my fellow Americans.
#protest #poetry #Iran
June 22, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Black women! Come to the front, let’s huddle up. Sisters of the Yam is THAT GIRL in the book world! This is the prerequisite read to cultural self-recovery & self-actualization. If you haven’t claimed it, this has the knowledge to free living Sis.

Happy #Juneteenth
#blackbooksky #bvm #blackskywomen
June 19, 2025 at 5:07 PM
This magically written modern-day poetic folk tale is laced with sisterly love, queer love, and shocking betrayal. No worries, the betrayal leads to a satisfying conclusion at the end. It is a cautionary tale indeed with a lovely lesson to learn. 😌👌🏾
#booksky #poetry #prose
#queer #folktale #pride
June 18, 2025 at 3:36 AM
I almost forgot the feeling😮‍💨 I needed to recall for gratitude's sake. If you don’t remember, need to be reminded, or need to remind someone else about what it was like during COVID-19, read this! For Educators, there are good short stories for High School ELA lessons too!
#blackbooksky #booksky #bvm
June 16, 2025 at 2:16 PM
I see no king here
I see a coward taco
cloaked in fascism

#nokings #haiku #blacksky
#nokingsprotest #poetry
#bvm #skypoet #noking
June 15, 2025 at 11:58 AM
The first poem I memorized was on the TV Show Moesha by Lady Lunatic Poem “The Equation” 🔥🔥
I can still recite it from memory! 😏
#bvm #blacksky #blackskyover30
#blackskypoet #blackpoetry #poetry #harriettubman

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Lady Lunatic Poem “The Equation” 🔥🔥 | Moesha
YouTube video by Teion Sole
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June 15, 2025 at 10:58 AM
This book is a CALL to ACTION for undervalued people starting a #company or investing in one. It’s highly motivational & inspiring to Black women with Impostor Syndrome. This is the representation & roadmap into business you’ve been waiting for! Run, don’t walk! #blackbooksky #booksky #bvm #business
June 6, 2025 at 3:20 AM
It has been a 🔪 murder and mayhem plot, neck-twisting reading roster in #May, with a splash of OMG Head-shaking Romance baes.💕 I might continue this momentum into June.😏😌

#readinglist #booksky #bvm
#blackbooksky #blackwriters
#romance #thriller #mystery
June 2, 2025 at 8:47 PM
I thoroughly enjoyed listening to this Black Woman's practical #prayers and #poems appealing to God using the context of History, her People, & Personal Experiences. She challenges the Bible, her Life, & Culture while maintaining deep respect and reverence. #blackbooksky #blackwriter #blackpoet #bvm
May 27, 2025 at 5:59 PM
I enjoyed listening to this book's culturally rich, bold, opinionated, unapologetic #LGBTQIA+ characters & allies who are figuring it out. Listening to teens discuss, defend, & define themselves for themselves was heartwarming. Read with compassion & enjoy the emerging lovers. #booksky #writer #book
May 8, 2025 at 8:19 AM
This book is a cute teen love story between a high-strung, achievement-focused chick and a laidback, naturally academically creative dude as they compete for the title of Valedictorian. I love the message at the end after barriers no longer block them from being together. #blackbooksky #booksky #bvm
May 6, 2025 at 4:23 AM
my sacred spaces
hold memories of our pain
and celebration

#haiku #poetry #blackpoet
#skypoet #celebration #vss
#photography by #staylo
May 4, 2025 at 7:59 PM
who’s hurt?

you need me to be
villain, color of victim
looks better on you

#haiku #poetry #blackpoet
#poem #vss #hurt #skypoet
#photograpy by #staylo
May 4, 2025 at 1:56 PM
#April, my nose was stuck in stories! This month’s reads had some of my most top-rated unforgettable stories & life-changing advice to date. I lost, learned, laughed, cried, stood still stunned, uttered Amen, & cheered Yasss! Pick a book, any #book. 🫶🏾

#blackbooksky #booksky
#writers #bvm #books
May 1, 2025 at 6:15 AM
in two days

watch me sky like May
embrace the overflow of
April rain, and live

#haiku #poetry #blackpoet
#bvm #skypoet #april #may
#photography by #staylo
April 30, 2025 at 12:55 AM
While reading, I experienced all the feels & fell in love with the Felix Love, who’s Black, Queer, & Transgender. Felix is vulnerable and annoyingly cute. I rooted for Felix even when they were wrong. Spending time in Felix’s world helped me connect with this beautiful community. #blackbooksky #bvm
April 29, 2025 at 8:57 AM