Bridgett M Davis
@bridgettmdavis.bsky.social
Author of the memoirs LOVE, RITA (March ‘25) & THE WORLD ACCORDING TO FANNIE DAVIS and writer/director of the newly rediscovered film NAKED ACTS. Proud native of Detroit. Substack: https://substack.com/@bridgettmdavis
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Am I coming to your city on my book tour for Love, Rita? If so, join me, won’t you?
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Despite major advances in understanding how genetics, lifestyle, and environment shape health, it remains a mystery why similar patients can have such different outcomes.
On this episode, we discuss what factors shape health, disease, and survival.
🔗 lnk.to/whyy-thepulse
On this episode, we discuss what factors shape health, disease, and survival.
🔗 lnk.to/whyy-thepulse
September 19, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Despite major advances in understanding how genetics, lifestyle, and environment shape health, it remains a mystery why similar patients can have such different outcomes.
On this episode, we discuss what factors shape health, disease, and survival.
🔗 lnk.to/whyy-thepulse
On this episode, we discuss what factors shape health, disease, and survival.
🔗 lnk.to/whyy-thepulse
I love the chance to screen my film in LA AND be in conversation with you, Maya!
LA: on 6/20 at 730 pm @bridgettmdavis.bsky.social & i will be at @vidiots.bsky.social for screening of “naked acts” (1996) w/ a convo after.
each ticket will come w/ a dvd of the film courtesy of @milestonefilms.bsky.social. hope you can join us: vidiotsfoundation.org/movies/naked...
each ticket will come w/ a dvd of the film courtesy of @milestonefilms.bsky.social. hope you can join us: vidiotsfoundation.org/movies/naked...
June 18, 2025 at 2:23 AM
I love the chance to screen my film in LA AND be in conversation with you, Maya!
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los angeles: join me + @bridgettmdavis.bsky.social for the very first black film archive event on juneteenth (6/19) at the philosophical research society, 7 pm.
our timely, intimate discussion will focus on writing as freedom and black writerly life. ✨✨✨✨
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our timely, intimate discussion will focus on writing as freedom and black writerly life. ✨✨✨✨
www.eventbrite.com/e/writing-as...
June 10, 2025 at 6:35 PM
los angeles: join me + @bridgettmdavis.bsky.social for the very first black film archive event on juneteenth (6/19) at the philosophical research society, 7 pm.
our timely, intimate discussion will focus on writing as freedom and black writerly life. ✨✨✨✨
www.eventbrite.com/e/writing-as...
our timely, intimate discussion will focus on writing as freedom and black writerly life. ✨✨✨✨
www.eventbrite.com/e/writing-as...
I’m beyond thrilled to be in conversation with you!!
los angeles: join me + @bridgettmdavis.bsky.social for the very first black film archive event on juneteenth (6/19) at the philosophical research society, 7 pm.
our timely, intimate discussion will focus on writing as freedom and black writerly life. ✨✨✨✨
www.eventbrite.com/e/writing-as...
our timely, intimate discussion will focus on writing as freedom and black writerly life. ✨✨✨✨
www.eventbrite.com/e/writing-as...
June 10, 2025 at 6:49 PM
I’m beyond thrilled to be in conversation with you!!
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"I just like myself more, more consistently. I like who I’ve become, and the person I built myself to be." - @bridgettmdavis.bsky.social takes The Oldster Magazine Questionnaire.
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This is (Almost) 65: Author/Filmmaker Bridgett M. Davis Responds to The Oldster Magazine Questionnaire
"I like being able to prioritize myself for a change—rather than my children, or my career or even my writing."
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April 30, 2025 at 12:12 PM
"I just like myself more, more consistently. I like who I’ve become, and the person I built myself to be." - @bridgettmdavis.bsky.social takes The Oldster Magazine Questionnaire.
oldster.substack.com/p/this-is-al...
oldster.substack.com/p/this-is-al...
I loved doing this Q&A! I got to reveal me to me!
"I just like myself more, more consistently. I like who I’ve become, and the person I built myself to be." - @bridgettmdavis.bsky.social takes The Oldster Magazine Questionnaire.
oldster.substack.com/p/this-is-al...
oldster.substack.com/p/this-is-al...
This is (Almost) 65: Author/Filmmaker Bridgett M. Davis Responds to The Oldster Magazine Questionnaire
"I like being able to prioritize myself for a change—rather than my children, or my career or even my writing."
oldster.substack.com
April 30, 2025 at 12:50 PM
I loved doing this Q&A! I got to reveal me to me!
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The dramedy NAKED ACTS (1996) starring Jake-Ann Jones and Ron Cephas Jones has been released on DVD & Blu-ray
entertainment-factor.blogspot.com/2025/02/nake...
#dvd #bluray #nakedacts #jakeannjones #roncephasjones @milestonefilms.bsky.social
entertainment-factor.blogspot.com/2025/02/nake...
#dvd #bluray #nakedacts #jakeannjones #roncephasjones @milestonefilms.bsky.social
DVD & Blu-ray: NAKED ACTS (1996) Starring Jake-Ann Jones and Ron Cephas Jones
The dramedy NAKED ACTS (1996) starring Jake-Ann Jones and Ron Cephas Jones has been released on DVD & Blu-ray
entertainment-factor.blogspot.com
February 20, 2025 at 10:12 PM
The dramedy NAKED ACTS (1996) starring Jake-Ann Jones and Ron Cephas Jones has been released on DVD & Blu-ray
entertainment-factor.blogspot.com/2025/02/nake...
#dvd #bluray #nakedacts #jakeannjones #roncephasjones @milestonefilms.bsky.social
entertainment-factor.blogspot.com/2025/02/nake...
#dvd #bluray #nakedacts #jakeannjones #roncephasjones @milestonefilms.bsky.social
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I'm so pleased to share my conversation with @bridgettmdavis.bsky.social who joins me on Let's Talk Memoir to share how she approached writing her new book LOVE, RITA.
Thank you, Bridgett for being my guest. I loved having this time with you.
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Thank you, Bridgett for being my guest. I loved having this time with you.
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Episode 162 ft. Bridgett M. Davis
Bridgett M. Davis joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about the effect of trauma and weathering on Black lives, the unique bond between sisters, showing relationships in action and dialogue, ho...
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April 8, 2025 at 3:39 PM
I'm so pleased to share my conversation with @bridgettmdavis.bsky.social who joins me on Let's Talk Memoir to share how she approached writing her new book LOVE, RITA.
Thank you, Bridgett for being my guest. I loved having this time with you.
ronitplank.com/2025/04/08/l...
Thank you, Bridgett for being my guest. I loved having this time with you.
ronitplank.com/2025/04/08/l...
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What Toni Morrison’s fiction taught @bridgettmdavis.bsky.social about writing memoir: “I’ve learned as a memoirist to construct worlds that careful excavation implies.”
Inventing Truths: What Toni Morrison’s Fiction Taught Me About Writing Memoir
In a talk she gave in the 1980s entitled “The Site of Memory”, Toni Morrison said her goals as a novelist sprang from the great Black literary tradition of slave narratives, of autobiography; in th…
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April 7, 2025 at 5:30 PM
What Toni Morrison’s fiction taught @bridgettmdavis.bsky.social about writing memoir: “I’ve learned as a memoirist to construct worlds that careful excavation implies.”
Thank you @literaryhub.bsky.social for the opportunity to write about my process of inventing the truth.
What Toni Morrison’s fiction taught @bridgettmdavis.bsky.social about writing memoir: “I’ve learned as a memoirist to construct worlds that careful excavation implies.”
Inventing Truths: What Toni Morrison’s Fiction Taught Me About Writing Memoir
In a talk she gave in the 1980s entitled “The Site of Memory”, Toni Morrison said her goals as a novelist sprang from the great Black literary tradition of slave narratives, of autobiography; in th…
buff.ly
April 9, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Thank you @literaryhub.bsky.social for the opportunity to write about my process of inventing the truth.
I loved talking about the process of memoir writing!
I'm so pleased to share my conversation with @bridgettmdavis.bsky.social who joins me on Let's Talk Memoir to share how she approached writing her new book LOVE, RITA.
Thank you, Bridgett for being my guest. I loved having this time with you.
ronitplank.com/2025/04/08/l...
Thank you, Bridgett for being my guest. I loved having this time with you.
ronitplank.com/2025/04/08/l...
Episode 162 ft. Bridgett M. Davis
Bridgett M. Davis joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about the effect of trauma and weathering on Black lives, the unique bond between sisters, showing relationships in action and dialogue, ho...
ronitplank.com
April 9, 2025 at 1:15 PM
I loved talking about the process of memoir writing!
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TONIGHT, 8PM: Franklin Park Reading Series is a week early this month, w/ lit trailblazers @torreypeters.bsky.social, Lynne Tillman, Robert Jones Jr., @bridgettmdavis.bsky.social, @aaantons.bsky.social & @caoilinnhughes.bsky.social, beer specials, book raffle!
618 St. Johns Pl, Crown Heights. #Free
618 St. Johns Pl, Crown Heights. #Free
April 7, 2025 at 3:37 PM
TONIGHT, 8PM: Franklin Park Reading Series is a week early this month, w/ lit trailblazers @torreypeters.bsky.social, Lynne Tillman, Robert Jones Jr., @bridgettmdavis.bsky.social, @aaantons.bsky.social & @caoilinnhughes.bsky.social, beer specials, book raffle!
618 St. Johns Pl, Crown Heights. #Free
618 St. Johns Pl, Crown Heights. #Free
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THIS MONDAY, APRIL 7, 8PM: Can’t wait for the Franklin Park Reading Series, with superstars @torreypeters.bsky.social, Lynne Tillman, Robert Jones Jr, @bridgettmdavis.bsky.social, @aaantons.bsky.social & @caoilinnhughes.bsky.social! Drink specials, book raffle! #Free 618 St. Johns Pl, Crown Heights
April 4, 2025 at 8:20 PM
THIS MONDAY, APRIL 7, 8PM: Can’t wait for the Franklin Park Reading Series, with superstars @torreypeters.bsky.social, Lynne Tillman, Robert Jones Jr, @bridgettmdavis.bsky.social, @aaantons.bsky.social & @caoilinnhughes.bsky.social! Drink specials, book raffle! #Free 618 St. Johns Pl, Crown Heights
Can’t wait!
THIS MONDAY, APRIL 7, 8PM: Can’t wait for the Franklin Park Reading Series, with superstars @torreypeters.bsky.social, Lynne Tillman, Robert Jones Jr, @bridgettmdavis.bsky.social, @aaantons.bsky.social & @caoilinnhughes.bsky.social! Drink specials, book raffle! #Free 618 St. Johns Pl, Crown Heights
April 4, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Can’t wait!
I’m so excited to be in convo with my Spelman sister @tayari.bsky.social in ATL next Wednesday, 4/9. This is a highlight of the #love,rita book tour, for sure!
April 3, 2025 at 12:31 PM
I’m so excited to be in convo with my Spelman sister @tayari.bsky.social in ATL next Wednesday, 4/9. This is a highlight of the #love,rita book tour, for sure!
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NEXT MONDAY, APRIL 7, 8PM: Franklin Park Reading Series hosts celebrated authors @torreypeters.bsky.social, Lynne Tillman, Robert Jones, Jr., @bridgettmdavis.bsky.social, @aaantons.bsky.social & @caoilinnhughes.bsky.social! Plus drink specials and book raffle! 618 St. Johns Pl, Crown Heights. #Free
March 31, 2025 at 9:33 PM
NEXT MONDAY, APRIL 7, 8PM: Franklin Park Reading Series hosts celebrated authors @torreypeters.bsky.social, Lynne Tillman, Robert Jones, Jr., @bridgettmdavis.bsky.social, @aaantons.bsky.social & @caoilinnhughes.bsky.social! Plus drink specials and book raffle! 618 St. Johns Pl, Crown Heights. #Free
Can’t wait!
MONDAY, APRIL 7, 8PM: So excited to host these superstars at Franklin Park Reading Series--@torreypeters.bsky.social, Lynne Tillman, Robert Jones, Jr., @bridgettmdavis.bsky.social, Anton Solomonik, and @caoilinnhughes.bsky.social! 618 St. Johns Place, Brooklyn www.facebook.com/share/1AXH9X... #Free
March 26, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Can’t wait!
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“Rae Rae” by Bridgett M. Davis (@bridgettmdavis.bsky.social): www.narrativemagazine.com/issues/fall-...
March 19, 2025 at 5:42 PM
“Rae Rae” by Bridgett M. Davis (@bridgettmdavis.bsky.social): www.narrativemagazine.com/issues/fall-...
Thanks for digging through the crates to share this story. Love that!!
“Rae Rae” by Bridgett M. Davis (@bridgettmdavis.bsky.social): www.narrativemagazine.com/issues/fall-...
March 19, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Thanks for digging through the crates to share this story. Love that!!
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Still thinking about Naked Acts… been waiting for my chance to see this one & it was so special to have @mayascade.bsky.social & @bridgettmdavis.bsky.social there to share the journey! Amazing to be in a theater radiating love like that!
March 18, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Still thinking about Naked Acts… been waiting for my chance to see this one & it was so special to have @mayascade.bsky.social & @bridgettmdavis.bsky.social there to share the journey! Amazing to be in a theater radiating love like that!
I felt the love!
Still thinking about Naked Acts… been waiting for my chance to see this one & it was so special to have @mayascade.bsky.social & @bridgettmdavis.bsky.social there to share the journey! Amazing to be in a theater radiating love like that!
March 18, 2025 at 11:48 PM
I felt the love!
Excited to join the Brown Girl Collective Book Club tonight!
March 17, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Excited to join the Brown Girl Collective Book Club tonight!
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Such a treat to see @bridgettmdavis.bsky.social in conversation (with Caryn Coleman) after a screening of her brilliant film NAKED ACTS (1996) at MoMA! 📽️🎞️ Intro'd by @mayascade.bsky.social ❤️
Do yourself a favor and watch this film immediately! kinolorber.com/product/nake...
Do yourself a favor and watch this film immediately! kinolorber.com/product/nake...
March 16, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Such a treat to see @bridgettmdavis.bsky.social in conversation (with Caryn Coleman) after a screening of her brilliant film NAKED ACTS (1996) at MoMA! 📽️🎞️ Intro'd by @mayascade.bsky.social ❤️
Do yourself a favor and watch this film immediately! kinolorber.com/product/nake...
Do yourself a favor and watch this film immediately! kinolorber.com/product/nake...
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Our weekly post for @dailykos.com /Black Kos of books published this week of interest to Black readers (but also recommended for ALL readers!): www.dailykos.com/comments/230...
A short list this week. Authors and illustrators who are on Bluesky listed in the comments 🧵
#Booksky #blackbooksky
A short list this week. Authors and illustrators who are on Bluesky listed in the comments 🧵
#Booksky #blackbooksky
March 15, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Our weekly post for @dailykos.com /Black Kos of books published this week of interest to Black readers (but also recommended for ALL readers!): www.dailykos.com/comments/230...
A short list this week. Authors and illustrators who are on Bluesky listed in the comments 🧵
#Booksky #blackbooksky
A short list this week. Authors and illustrators who are on Bluesky listed in the comments 🧵
#Booksky #blackbooksky
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I've only found three of this week's authors on Bluesky. Post a comment if you know of any others. Follow them and support them! #Booksky @bridgettmdavis.bsky.social @hm-nde.bsky.social @mobrowne.bsky.social
Next comment looks at publishers 🧵
Next comment looks at publishers 🧵
March 15, 2025 at 6:35 PM
I've only found three of this week's authors on Bluesky. Post a comment if you know of any others. Follow them and support them! #Booksky @bridgettmdavis.bsky.social @hm-nde.bsky.social @mobrowne.bsky.social
Next comment looks at publishers 🧵
Next comment looks at publishers 🧵