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Aishatu Ado
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AUTHOR. ARTIST. PEACE TECHNOLOGIST.
Clarion West '25 | Alumna: Tin House, VONA, Hurston/Wright, RWW, Voodoonauts
https://aishatu.carrd.co/

Co-founding member at Àrokò Cooperative
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Aishatu Ado @aishatuado.bsky.social · Apr 6
🏆 I won the Jerry Jazz Musician Short Fiction Award! It's the first win for a story centering an African refugee woman.

Read here: www.jerryjazzmusician.com/short-fictio...

💬 Please leave a comment at the bottom of the publication page.

#WritingCommunity #ShortStory #WritersOfBluesky
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Join The Folklore Story Lab Part 2: (r)EVOLUTION (Diaspora & Lineage) with @aishatuado.bsky.social
— an online writing session exploring African and diasporic folklore.
📅 Nov 22, 10 AM EST / 9 AM CST
🔗 Register (Free): bit.ly/wwfotg
November 19, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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Join The Folklore Story Lab: ROOTS (Africa) with @aishatuado.bsky.social — a generative writing session exploring African and diasporic folklore.
📅 Nov 15, 10 AM EST / 9 AM CST
🔗 Register (Free): us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
November 12, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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Celebrating joy, creativity and cultural magic as sisters Mahie & Meron weave Ethiopian heritage into Halloween spellcraft— the creative forces behind Enday, a vibrant fashion brand. #HabeshaMagic

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Pumpkin Angels & Habesha Magic: Stitching Spells and Sewing Culture
Ethiopian-American designers reclaim Halloween as a time of joy, blending culture with creative freedom!
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November 8, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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What haunts us from childhood? Find out in my Halloween flash fiction
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Ninja Turtle Dreams
Mama zipped me in a Ninja Turtle shell—Michelangelo, the laughing one, 'cause I giggled through gunfire and dreamed in technicolor even when sirens split the night like wishbones. Sweat glued the mas...
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October 31, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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Halloween nostalgia with a twist, read @aishatuado.bsky.social's flash fiction now live at ÀROKÒ.WORLD
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Ninja Turtle Dreams
Mama zipped me in a Ninja Turtle shell—Michelangelo, the laughing one, 'cause I giggled through gunfire and dreamed in technicolor even when sirens split the night like wishbones. Sweat glued the mas...
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October 31, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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Love cinema that haunts and expands what Black stories can be? Read @aishatuado.bsky.social's latest piece on Eve’s Bayou.
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Messy by Design: How Eve’s Bayou Made Chaos an Art Form
Someone will ask you one day if you've seen Eve's Bayou. You need to be able say yes. Because Kasi Lemmons crafted cinema history as one of the first Black women to direct a feature that centers Black...
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October 28, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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Campaign started for @roguestarmag.bsky.social. If we meet our $1200 goal, we'll be able to pay authors SFWA pro rates for fiction (one previously unpublished story quarterly) starting January 2026. www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti... (re-posted w/corrected link) #signalboost #writers #authors
Get Ready for Rogue Star Magazine
From Tonya R. Moore - Get Ready for Rogue Star Magazine
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October 22, 2025 at 1:47 AM
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We built intentional culture that has lasting impact. Read our new article on how we work and the work we’ve done.

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We Build Culture
How Àrokò Cooperative designs radical solutions for individuals and organizations.
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October 20, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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An ode to @aishatuado.bsky.social new article “Play is Medicine” what was games kept you up late at night? Drop them in the comments🎮
What Games Were Your Medicine Growing Up
October 17, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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“We weren’t just playing; we were learning…how to laugh at failure and try again. What I didn’t know then is what researchers would confirm years later: those play sessions were not just fun. They were literally reshaping our brains” —

Read the full article here.

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Play Is Medicine: Designing Care Through Super Mario 64
Forget brain-training apps. In the ‘90s we already had one: Super Mario 64. Turns out Peach’s castle was a cognitive gym all along.
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October 16, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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THE COOKOUT IS COMING! 👽🧚🏾‍♂️🥘
Our Kickstarter will be launching very soon! In the meantime, please sign up & be the first to know when we go live. It won’t happen without your help, so please share & keep watching this space! @press-android.bsky.social #Blacksky #SFF
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Coming soon: The Cookout: A Speculative Fiction Anthology
Sci-fi, fantasy, & horror stories by Black authors, centering traditions of “the cookout” — the joy, the drama, and the delicious food.
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October 14, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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Don't miss this opportunity to work with Aishatu and encounter her brilliance!
aishatuado.bsky.social Aishatu Ado @aishatuado.bsky.social · Oct 9
📢 Call for Submissions! I'm excited to share that I'm curating an Anthology with @aroko.bsky.social We are inviting writers from Africa & the Diaspora to send us stories that (re)imagine folklore, myths, and legends.

🗓️Deadline Dec 31 2025.

➡️More info at: www.aroko.world/aroko-anthol...
October 10, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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Working with @aishatuado.bsky.social will be such a treat! She is such a talent. Do submit!
October 10, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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📢 Call for Submissions! I'm excited to share that I'm curating an Anthology with @aroko.bsky.social We are inviting writers from Africa & the Diaspora to send us stories that (re)imagine folklore, myths, and legends.

🗓️Deadline Dec 31 2025.

➡️More info at: www.aroko.world/aroko-anthol...
October 9, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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📢 Call for Submissions! Àrokò invites writers from Africa & the diaspora to send us stories that reimagine folklore, myth, and legend. Deadline Dec 31 2025.

www.aroko.world/aroko-anthol...
Àrokò Anthology: Call for submissions
ÀROKÒ ANTHOLOGY NO.1: FOLKLORE FROM AFRICA & THE DIASPORA Curated and edited by Aishatu Ado DEADLINE 12.31.25 // Submit to: contact@aroko.coop THEME We invite fiction that breathes new life into ...
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October 3, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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@zariah-cam.bsky.social takes us through another money saving library experience that’s sure to put some money back in your pockets

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Using a Library Card a Day Keeps Capitalism at Bay: Happy Freedom to Read Week
On this next creative library adventure, I visited the Myers Park Library for an Arts & Crafts Drop-in experience. Normally, I’m used to booking an art event where you have to stay for the full 2 hour...
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October 6, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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Stay cozy in style this fall with Aroko

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October 8, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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Please back this new magazine! So proud of my friends 🙌🏾 Can't wait for this to launch ✨
othersidespec.bsky.social OTHERSIDE @othersidespec.bsky.social · Sep 29
WE'RE LIVE! AND WE ARE SO EXCITED! Back now to support a new magazine of speculative fiction by 2SLGBTQIA+ authors and artists! Snag some amazing rewards, including discounted subscriptions! Support queer art! And help us SMASH DAY ONE!

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OTHERSIDE Kickstarter art. Text says OTHERSIDE Kickstarter LIVE NOW! over our purple and banner art with the Wanderer, a small figure on floating rocks, on the right.
September 29, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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WE'RE LIVE! AND WE ARE SO EXCITED! Back now to support a new magazine of speculative fiction by 2SLGBTQIA+ authors and artists! Snag some amazing rewards, including discounted subscriptions! Support queer art! And help us SMASH DAY ONE!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/hyb...
OTHERSIDE Kickstarter art. Text says OTHERSIDE Kickstarter LIVE NOW! over our purple and banner art with the Wanderer, a small figure on floating rocks, on the right.
September 29, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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Our portfolio is up to date with new work from 2025. If you are looking for help with your brand, website, magazine, or more, hit us up!

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Àrokò Cooperative
Àròko Cooperative is a multidisciplinary creative community reimagining art and design as a social practice.
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September 23, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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145,000 young Nepalis turned Discord into a digital parliament and elected their country's first woman interim prime minister. Design reflects the values of those who wield it, not those who built it.

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Discord Decides: How Nepal's Youth Turned Gaming Infrastructure into Architecture For Liberation
145,000 young Nepalis turned Discord into a digital parliament and elected their country's first woman interim prime minister. Design reflects the values of those who wield it, not those who built it.
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September 18, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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They called it beautiful, this bill that turns cupboards into graveyards and hospitals into ghosts. "Alaska's tundra cracks beneath the weight of drills that puncture permafrost—each wellhead a monument to extinction's acceleration."

Read the full poem here:
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Matricide
On July 4th 2025, America murdered its safety net: Medicaid gutted, food stamps slashed, Arctic drilled—all for billionaire tax cuts. "The cupboards testify: nothing grows in hunger's house.”
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August 21, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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Our first collection of products is available now! Check out more of the details on each piece on our aroko.world, and place your order on aroko.coop/shop.
Photograph featuring the full range of products from Àrokò's first capsule collection, including a scarf, a t-shirt, 2 cermaic cups, a poster, and a zine.
July 31, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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Our first interview features Van Newman, the multi-talented writer, designer, and community builder who planted the seed that bloomed into Àrokò Cooperative.
How Van Newman is Divesting From Big Tech, Artificial Urgency, and the U.S.A.
We spoke to Van Newman about divestment as a practice and a source of joy in an increasingly cruel world.
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July 14, 2025 at 3:03 PM