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@zorahamsa.bsky.social
- reader
- writer
- artist
- black literary studies
- analog (ante)humanities
- writing instruments enthusiast
- ooloi: all pronouns
- book (in progress): 📖 all we have is flesh: on blackness and the disavowal of the human 📖
- writer
- artist
- black literary studies
- analog (ante)humanities
- writing instruments enthusiast
- ooloi: all pronouns
- book (in progress): 📖 all we have is flesh: on blackness and the disavowal of the human 📖
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@zorahamsa.bsky.social
· Jan 6
“my project presupposes black sentience but not black humanity, because humanity is a corrupt and insufficient category for thinking black [being], blackness, and black survival “after” the ongoing disaster of [the] middle passage.”
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Although this conversation with Corey Miles happened earlier this year, the timeliness of its posting last week felt like it could not arrive sooner, even with me forgetting that I referenced the recently departed.
Issa Vibe for Stay Black and Die.
youtu.be/-1TsydT4AWo
Issa Vibe for Stay Black and Die.
youtu.be/-1TsydT4AWo
Happiness Is Just a Break from Pain - Augustus Durham & Corey J. Miles at Baldwin & Co.
YouTube video by Baldwin & Co.
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November 13, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Although this conversation with Corey Miles happened earlier this year, the timeliness of its posting last week felt like it could not arrive sooner, even with me forgetting that I referenced the recently departed.
Issa Vibe for Stay Black and Die.
youtu.be/-1TsydT4AWo
Issa Vibe for Stay Black and Die.
youtu.be/-1TsydT4AWo
i resolved an important writing challenge today. 🙏🏿🎉
November 13, 2025 at 7:27 PM
i resolved an important writing challenge today. 🙏🏿🎉
if i still lived in houston, i would not be in here cutting up a cabbage to cook for dinner. 😩
November 13, 2025 at 12:06 AM
if i still lived in houston, i would not be in here cutting up a cabbage to cook for dinner. 😩
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While trillionaires are made, tremendous need is everywhere. Please do what you are able to support people.
November 9, 2025 at 8:35 PM
While trillionaires are made, tremendous need is everywhere. Please do what you are able to support people.
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my god. 🤬🤬🤬
“The Supreme Court on Friday granted the Trump administration’s emergency appeal to temporarily block a court order to fully fund SNAP food aid payments amid the government shutdown.”
Supreme Court issues emergency order to block full SNAP food aid payments
The Supreme Court has granted the Trump administration’s emergency appeal to temporarily block a court order to fully fund SNAP food aid payments amid the government shutdown.
apnews.com
November 8, 2025 at 2:51 AM
my god. 🤬🤬🤬
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Haymarket House, our home and event space in Chicago, has a new website! Check us out at haymarkethouse.org
Haymarket House - Culture, Politics, Community
Haymarket Books presents Haymarket House, our new home and community space. Our goal is to support a community of activists, writers and thinkers by providing a space not only for book events but also...
haymarkethouse.org
November 7, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Haymarket House, our home and event space in Chicago, has a new website! Check us out at haymarkethouse.org
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ALL Haymarket EBooks are 80% off through November 7th ✊🏾✊🏿✊🏽
Haymarket Ebooks on sale for $2!
At Haymarket, our mission is to publish books that contribute to struggles for social and economic justice. We strive to make our books a vibrant and organic part of social movements, and we believe t...
www.haymarketbooks.org
October 27, 2025 at 7:16 PM
ALL Haymarket EBooks are 80% off through November 7th ✊🏾✊🏿✊🏽
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OK, I have a day long convening today so gotta bounce. If you live in NYC, don't stop organizing. This is a beginning and each of us needs to work with others to bring about a better city that actually works for all of us. I'm looking forward to continuing to focus on our libraries & more.
November 5, 2025 at 2:20 PM
OK, I have a day long convening today so gotta bounce. If you live in NYC, don't stop organizing. This is a beginning and each of us needs to work with others to bring about a better city that actually works for all of us. I'm looking forward to continuing to focus on our libraries & more.
collective action forever. ✊🏿✨
November 5, 2025 at 5:00 PM
collective action forever. ✊🏿✨
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Another world is possible, if we fight for it
November 5, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Another world is possible, if we fight for it
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BREAKING: Democrat Johnny DuPree has flipped a Republican-held Mississippi Senate district in a special election.
DuPree was previously the mayor of Hattiesburg.
His win imperils the Mississippi Senate GOP's narrow supermajority.
www.mississippifreepress.org/democrat-joh...
DuPree was previously the mayor of Hattiesburg.
His win imperils the Mississippi Senate GOP's narrow supermajority.
www.mississippifreepress.org/democrat-joh...
Democrat Johnny DuPree Flips Republican-Held Mississippi Senate District in Forrest County
Johnny DuPree, a Democrat who served as the mayor of Hattiesburg, Mississippi, for 16 years, has flipped a Republican-held Mississippi Senate seat.
www.mississippifreepress.org
November 5, 2025 at 3:18 AM
BREAKING: Democrat Johnny DuPree has flipped a Republican-held Mississippi Senate district in a special election.
DuPree was previously the mayor of Hattiesburg.
His win imperils the Mississippi Senate GOP's narrow supermajority.
www.mississippifreepress.org/democrat-joh...
DuPree was previously the mayor of Hattiesburg.
His win imperils the Mississippi Senate GOP's narrow supermajority.
www.mississippifreepress.org/democrat-joh...
let’s hear it for NEW YORK!!!!!! 👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿
November 5, 2025 at 2:41 AM
let’s hear it for NEW YORK!!!!!! 👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿
the people are still fighting!!! 🎉🎉🎉
November 5, 2025 at 2:36 AM
the people are still fighting!!! 🎉🎉🎉
congratulations to new york city!!! 🎉🎉🎉
November 5, 2025 at 2:34 AM
congratulations to new york city!!! 🎉🎉🎉
i (think i) love writing these books. but i am sometimes overwhelmed by my own expectations. 🫣
November 5, 2025 at 12:53 AM
i (think i) love writing these books. but i am sometimes overwhelmed by my own expectations. 🫣
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OpenAI pirated large numbers of books and used them to train models.
OpenAI then deleted the dataset with the pirated books, and employees sent each other messages about doing so.
A lawsuit could now force the company to pay $150,000 per book, adding up to billions in damages.
OpenAI then deleted the dataset with the pirated books, and employees sent each other messages about doing so.
A lawsuit could now force the company to pay $150,000 per book, adding up to billions in damages.
November 4, 2025 at 3:30 PM
OpenAI pirated large numbers of books and used them to train models.
OpenAI then deleted the dataset with the pirated books, and employees sent each other messages about doing so.
A lawsuit could now force the company to pay $150,000 per book, adding up to billions in damages.
OpenAI then deleted the dataset with the pirated books, and employees sent each other messages about doing so.
A lawsuit could now force the company to pay $150,000 per book, adding up to billions in damages.
y’all… robin gets me every time. lol.
i shared on IG about the time i met her in houston and tried (very hard) to flirt with her. 😂 i (think i) started to make some real flirting progress on twitter, but then twitter died. and now here comes david with this very sexy interview, and i… 🫨
i shared on IG about the time i met her in houston and tried (very hard) to flirt with her. 😂 i (think i) started to make some real flirting progress on twitter, but then twitter died. and now here comes david with this very sexy interview, and i… 🫨
Don't miss today's episode with poet extraordinaire @robincostelewis.bsky.social about Archive of Desire: A Poem in Four Parts for C.P. Cavafy. We look across her 3 books, across time from Ancient Greece to modern Alexandria, across her life and Cavafy's
Audio📻🔥: tinhouse.com/podcast/robi...
Audio📻🔥: tinhouse.com/podcast/robi...
Robin Coste Lewis : Archive of Desire - Tin House
Archive of Desire: A Poem in Four Parts for C.P. Cavafy began as a collaborative multidisciplinary project between the poet Robin Coste Lewis, the composer Vijay Iyer, the cellist Jeffrey Zeigler and ...
tinhouse.com
November 4, 2025 at 10:02 PM
y’all… robin gets me every time. lol.
i shared on IG about the time i met her in houston and tried (very hard) to flirt with her. 😂 i (think i) started to make some real flirting progress on twitter, but then twitter died. and now here comes david with this very sexy interview, and i… 🫨
i shared on IG about the time i met her in houston and tried (very hard) to flirt with her. 😂 i (think i) started to make some real flirting progress on twitter, but then twitter died. and now here comes david with this very sexy interview, and i… 🫨
i have not seen a production of “godot” in more than two decades.
November 4, 2025 at 1:32 PM
i have not seen a production of “godot” in more than two decades.
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Fellow NYC residents, if you haven't yet sent a letter to your City Council member demanding that they support @nycplan.org's call to increase and stabilize NYC public library funding, please do. It will take 30 seconds: actionnetwork.org/letters/city...
City Council, we demand half a percent of the overall city budget for libraries!
In response to the NYC FY2026 Budget, adopted this June, the Brooklyn Public Library, the New York Public Library, and the Queens Public Library released a joint statement thanking City Leaders for in...
actionnetwork.org
November 2, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Fellow NYC residents, if you haven't yet sent a letter to your City Council member demanding that they support @nycplan.org's call to increase and stabilize NYC public library funding, please do. It will take 30 seconds: actionnetwork.org/letters/city...
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ACTIVE SHOOTER NEAR SHANNON LIBRARY AT UVA!!
November 3, 2025 at 8:15 PM
ACTIVE SHOOTER NEAR SHANNON LIBRARY AT UVA!!
surely i am not the only one who did not realize that the academy is *this* fragile. 🫠
November 2, 2025 at 2:44 PM
surely i am not the only one who did not realize that the academy is *this* fragile. 🫠
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The President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program, PPFP, has been a jewel in the crown for faculty development and recruitment at the University of California for years and the results have been an expanded faculty with almost 100% tenure rates — unprecedented success.
November 2, 2025 at 11:01 AM
The President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program, PPFP, has been a jewel in the crown for faculty development and recruitment at the University of California for years and the results have been an expanded faculty with almost 100% tenure rates — unprecedented success.
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