Daejah W
@anansi-son.bsky.social
Formerly @DaejahTalksTV. Earth based. Writer, culture critic, lover of TV, soup enthusiast. they/he/she.
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Daejah W
@anansi-son.bsky.social
· Nov 7
I did a huge look at Black Woman Led Live Action TV series 2015-2022 and YIKES!
Few shows ever get 3 season. Remove outliers (ex. Scandal) and it’s 2 seasons or less.
And when they’re *made* by Black women they’re higher rated but get less seasons
Some data snapshots 🧵:
#DaejahTalksTV
Few shows ever get 3 season. Remove outliers (ex. Scandal) and it’s 2 seasons or less.
And when they’re *made* by Black women they’re higher rated but get less seasons
Some data snapshots 🧵:
#DaejahTalksTV
Start of my thread of threads putting some of my TV/Media/Cultural Criticism thoughts all in one place.
Disfruta and please always fee free to request something from me :) I may do it or not 🤷🏾♀️
1. Black Woman Led TV
Disfruta and please always fee free to request something from me :) I may do it or not 🤷🏾♀️
1. Black Woman Led TV
My Partner and I are 3 days away from our flight and we are short on some final cash. If you can support us through #MutualAid our main needs are:
$30 — final housing
$30 — Groceries
$15 — Transport
Total: 75
(Gfm link w our story in replies)
$30 — final housing
$30 — Groceries
$15 — Transport
Total: 75
(Gfm link w our story in replies)
June 9, 2025 at 1:58 PM
My Partner and I are 3 days away from our flight and we are short on some final cash. If you can support us through #MutualAid our main needs are:
$30 — final housing
$30 — Groceries
$15 — Transport
Total: 75
(Gfm link w our story in replies)
$30 — final housing
$30 — Groceries
$15 — Transport
Total: 75
(Gfm link w our story in replies)
I love Aries season. I love Aries season. I love Aries season. I LOVE IT. I wish everyone meant to enter my life could meet me in the spring
April 19, 2025 at 10:22 PM
I love Aries season. I love Aries season. I love Aries season. I LOVE IT. I wish everyone meant to enter my life could meet me in the spring
lol… I really did so much damage to my mind, body, and spirit by overworking myself.
The year it’s taken to BEGIN healing is so scary. I have no idea how much longer I had before the damage would be irreparable.
The year it’s taken to BEGIN healing is so scary. I have no idea how much longer I had before the damage would be irreparable.
February 25, 2025 at 1:53 AM
lol… I really did so much damage to my mind, body, and spirit by overworking myself.
The year it’s taken to BEGIN healing is so scary. I have no idea how much longer I had before the damage would be irreparable.
The year it’s taken to BEGIN healing is so scary. I have no idea how much longer I had before the damage would be irreparable.
This older lesbian keeps trying to get me to be proud of my “womanhood” and my breasts and my lesbianism.
It was actually easier to tell her I like men (probably not true, but she accepted it) that that I’m nonbinary and have never dating a cisgender in my life (she has refused to hear it)
It was actually easier to tell her I like men (probably not true, but she accepted it) that that I’m nonbinary and have never dating a cisgender in my life (she has refused to hear it)
February 20, 2025 at 8:44 PM
This older lesbian keeps trying to get me to be proud of my “womanhood” and my breasts and my lesbianism.
It was actually easier to tell her I like men (probably not true, but she accepted it) that that I’m nonbinary and have never dating a cisgender in my life (she has refused to hear it)
It was actually easier to tell her I like men (probably not true, but she accepted it) that that I’m nonbinary and have never dating a cisgender in my life (she has refused to hear it)
Remember that video of Chloe eating dinner with burna and 7 of his niggas… still disturbed by that bc what was going on and why did she spend all of December looking spaced out and surrounded by at least 3 members of his homie-harem. Where the fuck were the women.
February 18, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Remember that video of Chloe eating dinner with burna and 7 of his niggas… still disturbed by that bc what was going on and why did she spend all of December looking spaced out and surrounded by at least 3 members of his homie-harem. Where the fuck were the women.
I’m so deeply grateful and happy and excited to share more of my writing and myself. Thank you for wanting to be here!
open.substack.com/pub/anansison
open.substack.com/pub/anansison
February 8, 2025 at 7:36 PM
I’m so deeply grateful and happy and excited to share more of my writing and myself. Thank you for wanting to be here!
open.substack.com/pub/anansison
open.substack.com/pub/anansison
I didn’t even up having to crowdfund but a few days ago marked 1 full year of traveling and today I finally have glasses that work!
There isn’t hot glue and super glue and floss and rubber bands holding my vision together! The lenses don’t fall out! I’m free!
There isn’t hot glue and super glue and floss and rubber bands holding my vision together! The lenses don’t fall out! I’m free!
I have tried all year to get new glasses and I have not had enough money at any point. I’m on and old prescription and these are literally hanging on by a thread. When I figure out the best price I can get I’m gonna start posting to raise $. All I want for Christmas is 20/20
January 30, 2025 at 1:57 PM
I didn’t even up having to crowdfund but a few days ago marked 1 full year of traveling and today I finally have glasses that work!
There isn’t hot glue and super glue and floss and rubber bands holding my vision together! The lenses don’t fall out! I’m free!
There isn’t hot glue and super glue and floss and rubber bands holding my vision together! The lenses don’t fall out! I’m free!
This year I’m spending each month with one of the 12 permaculture principles to reflect on its meaning and to integrate it into my life. The choice to start this project/meditation has so much to do with my relationship to abolition.
open.substack.com/pub/anansiso...
open.substack.com/pub/anansiso...
January 29, 2025 at 8:12 PM
This year I’m spending each month with one of the 12 permaculture principles to reflect on its meaning and to integrate it into my life. The choice to start this project/meditation has so much to do with my relationship to abolition.
open.substack.com/pub/anansiso...
open.substack.com/pub/anansiso...
2020
Abolitionists: aesthetic reforms and platitudes won’t move us forwards
Reformist: You’re making us look bad. We’ll get to you later.
2025
Abolitionists: we haven’t moved forward. How about now?
Reformists: You’re making us look bad. We’ll get to you later.
Abolitionists: aesthetic reforms and platitudes won’t move us forwards
Reformist: You’re making us look bad. We’ll get to you later.
2025
Abolitionists: we haven’t moved forward. How about now?
Reformists: You’re making us look bad. We’ll get to you later.
Harvard just fired me and all of my colleagues. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
Harvard Outsources Program to Identify Descendants of Those Enslaved by University Affiliates, Lays Off Internal Staff | News | The Harvard Crimson
Harvard University has laid off staff in the Harvard Slavery Remembrance Program, the unit of its $100 million Harvard & the Legacy of Slavery initiative tasked with identifying direct descendants of ...
www.thecrimson.com
January 23, 2025 at 7:36 PM
2020
Abolitionists: aesthetic reforms and platitudes won’t move us forwards
Reformist: You’re making us look bad. We’ll get to you later.
2025
Abolitionists: we haven’t moved forward. How about now?
Reformists: You’re making us look bad. We’ll get to you later.
Abolitionists: aesthetic reforms and platitudes won’t move us forwards
Reformist: You’re making us look bad. We’ll get to you later.
2025
Abolitionists: we haven’t moved forward. How about now?
Reformists: You’re making us look bad. We’ll get to you later.
My most important advice is that teas are really great for your health but they don’t all taste good. So just cover the taste with hot chocolate powder!
It’s not like the health benefits disappear, you just also have cocoa now.
It’s not like the health benefits disappear, you just also have cocoa now.
January 23, 2025 at 7:31 PM
My most important advice is that teas are really great for your health but they don’t all taste good. So just cover the taste with hot chocolate powder!
It’s not like the health benefits disappear, you just also have cocoa now.
It’s not like the health benefits disappear, you just also have cocoa now.
I like TV that exists right up in the viewers business. How to Die Alone is trying to shake all of us awake
January 22, 2025 at 3:53 PM
I like TV that exists right up in the viewers business. How to Die Alone is trying to shake all of us awake
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ACT UP, 1990
January 20, 2025 at 7:55 PM
ACT UP, 1990
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alright you wanna know how to support trans people?
hire them. It's REALLY hard already for visibly trans people to get jobs, even before this shit.
Support places that have trans people working front of house, and make sure owners know that's part of why you're there.
hire them. It's REALLY hard already for visibly trans people to get jobs, even before this shit.
Support places that have trans people working front of house, and make sure owners know that's part of why you're there.
January 21, 2025 at 5:11 AM
alright you wanna know how to support trans people?
hire them. It's REALLY hard already for visibly trans people to get jobs, even before this shit.
Support places that have trans people working front of house, and make sure owners know that's part of why you're there.
hire them. It's REALLY hard already for visibly trans people to get jobs, even before this shit.
Support places that have trans people working front of house, and make sure owners know that's part of why you're there.
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If anyone with a Euro bank account in one of these countries would be interested in being a receiver on an already existing Gazan GoFundMe please send me a message.
January 18, 2025 at 12:15 AM
If anyone with a Euro bank account in one of these countries would be interested in being a receiver on an already existing Gazan GoFundMe please send me a message.
My first Substack is live now!
"With compassion for Mel’s awkward growth, I found new empathy for myself. As she navigates losses to make way for a changed life, I remember that all growing has growing pains."
Love and Mischief,
The Anansi Son
open.substack.com/pub/anansiso...
"With compassion for Mel’s awkward growth, I found new empathy for myself. As she navigates losses to make way for a changed life, I remember that all growing has growing pains."
Love and Mischief,
The Anansi Son
open.substack.com/pub/anansiso...
'How to Die Alone', Autistic Burnout, and the Emergence of a New Body
Natasha Rothwells New Hulu series, my 2025 rebirth, and a world coming back to life after collective trauma.
open.substack.com
January 16, 2025 at 8:32 PM
My first Substack is live now!
"With compassion for Mel’s awkward growth, I found new empathy for myself. As she navigates losses to make way for a changed life, I remember that all growing has growing pains."
Love and Mischief,
The Anansi Son
open.substack.com/pub/anansiso...
"With compassion for Mel’s awkward growth, I found new empathy for myself. As she navigates losses to make way for a changed life, I remember that all growing has growing pains."
Love and Mischief,
The Anansi Son
open.substack.com/pub/anansiso...
Reposted by Daejah W
New: Meta has deleted trans and nonbinary Messenger themes, as well as the blog posts announcing them. Happens the same week that it has changed its rules to allow users to say LGBTQ+ people are "mentally ill"
www.404media.co/meta-deletes...
www.404media.co/meta-deletes...
Meta Deletes Trans and Nonbinary Messenger Themes
Amid a series of changes that allows users to target LGBTQ+ people, Meta has deleted product features it initially championed.
www.404media.co
January 10, 2025 at 5:09 PM
New: Meta has deleted trans and nonbinary Messenger themes, as well as the blog posts announcing them. Happens the same week that it has changed its rules to allow users to say LGBTQ+ people are "mentally ill"
www.404media.co/meta-deletes...
www.404media.co/meta-deletes...
My thing with Always Sunny is that if in your FIRST episode you were okay alienating Black viewers, then I wasn’t meant to be your audience anyways. You didn’t want me here if that’s how you START the show.
January 10, 2025 at 7:05 AM
My thing with Always Sunny is that if in your FIRST episode you were okay alienating Black viewers, then I wasn’t meant to be your audience anyways. You didn’t want me here if that’s how you START the show.
So plantain skin might be the best thing to smoke with ever. Any other suggestions for papers?
January 2, 2025 at 10:03 PM
So plantain skin might be the best thing to smoke with ever. Any other suggestions for papers?
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Coming to you live from my commute to remind you that I, a black trans theater educator and director/performer, am fundraising due to housing insecurity! If you have anything to spare or can even just share this it’d mean the world! Links for GFM and merch below and in my bio!
January 2, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Coming to you live from my commute to remind you that I, a black trans theater educator and director/performer, am fundraising due to housing insecurity! If you have anything to spare or can even just share this it’d mean the world! Links for GFM and merch below and in my bio!
I just don’t get how people are eating up the 6 Triple 8 movie. Begging everyone to see military and post-racial propaganda for what it is.
December 26, 2024 at 12:59 PM
I just don’t get how people are eating up the 6 Triple 8 movie. Begging everyone to see military and post-racial propaganda for what it is.
This summer my partner and I (both non-binary) were talking to this man but when we told him that fucking with us was not heterosexual he was in shock, got afraid we wanted to touch his booty hole, and then panicked and stopped talking to us bc my partner asked if he liked nature
December 24, 2024 at 12:28 PM
This summer my partner and I (both non-binary) were talking to this man but when we told him that fucking with us was not heterosexual he was in shock, got afraid we wanted to touch his booty hole, and then panicked and stopped talking to us bc my partner asked if he liked nature
I have tried all year to get new glasses and I have not had enough money at any point. I’m on and old prescription and these are literally hanging on by a thread. When I figure out the best price I can get I’m gonna start posting to raise $. All I want for Christmas is 20/20
December 11, 2024 at 4:02 PM
I have tried all year to get new glasses and I have not had enough money at any point. I’m on and old prescription and these are literally hanging on by a thread. When I figure out the best price I can get I’m gonna start posting to raise $. All I want for Christmas is 20/20
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Telehealth is the only way many disabled people and rural folks can get medical care. Take two seconds to save it
It takes two minutes to make a difference.
Don’t Let Telehealth Expire on December 31
Text SIGN PQHKWC to 50409 to send this to your officials.
resist.bot
December 10, 2024 at 4:30 AM
Telehealth is the only way many disabled people and rural folks can get medical care. Take two seconds to save it
Did not know I would find myself having beef with an unnamed McDonalds employee in Altoona, Pennsylvania but here I am.
December 9, 2024 at 8:01 PM
Did not know I would find myself having beef with an unnamed McDonalds employee in Altoona, Pennsylvania but here I am.