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Charlene A. Carruthers
@charlenecarruthers.bsky.social
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she|her, Writer, Educator, Filmmaker, and recovering community organizer.
Also, PhD Candidate in Black Studies at Northwestern University. www.charlenecarruthers.com
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The bottle. It’s a leak proof condiment bottle. I keep it in my backpack.
A hand holding a small cleat plastic bottle containing hot sauce.
October 26, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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Columbias (former) president did all that foolishness. The university threw the hammer down on students and faculty. All claiming to be in service of stopping antisemitism. And 47 STILL came for them.

Was it worth it @columbiauniversity.bsky.social?
Columbia University’s notice to encampment document with “I ain’t reading all that Free Palestine” written over the print in large red letters.
March 7, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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I’m reading a history book that’s considered peer reviewed and it’s just…gurl what sources did you skip over?
Grey haired man pulling off headphones with disgust.
December 17, 2024 at 12:23 AM
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I read this and thought of films (not books lol)…and then thought of who could play Julian Bond, and thought of Jacob Anderson.
Photo of Jacob Anderson, a light-skinned Black man, in a light colored shirt (maybe light pink) standing in front of a grayish background.
December 14, 2024 at 2:09 AM
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Day 8: Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#BookSky #BookChallenge
#BlackBookSky #BVM
Image of Audiobook cover: An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
December 8, 2024 at 7:40 PM
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Day 7: Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#BookSky #BookChallenge
#BlackBookSky #BVM
Book cover- There’s a disco ball between us: a theory of Black gay life by Jafari Allen. There is a gray box with a person surrounded by a metallic silver cloud
December 7, 2024 at 10:05 PM
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Day 6: Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#BookSky #BookChallenge
#BlackBookSky #BVM
Advance copy of Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde. Lordes name is in orange.
December 7, 2024 at 12:27 AM
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We're casting for my next film, #Plenum. Shooting in Chicago, January 24-26, 2025. Email reels/self-tape to plenumshortfilm@gmail.com. Role info attached. More on my IG: charlenecarruthers
Casting call image for PLENUM, a short film by Charlene A. Carruthers. Image includes vintage camera, blocks of beige/gold/red. Shooting Dates January 24-6, 2025 Casting call for Ajani Saint, Lead, Black, Man, mid 20s Casting call for Tracy Saint, Lead, Black, Woman, early 30s Casting call for Assotto. Supporting, Black, man, mid to late 20s.
December 6, 2024 at 5:58 PM
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Day 5: Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#BookSky #BookChallenge
#BlackBookSky #BVM
LaBelle Cusine book cover. Patti LaBelle in a white shirt and purple half apron standing in front of a gas range. There’s food atop the range. Flowers in background. My copy of LaBelle Cuisine. Purple book with title on cover and spine.. I don’t have the original cover.
December 5, 2024 at 9:15 PM
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Day 4: Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#BookSky #BookChallenge
#BlackBookSky #BVM
Beige book cover with black letters. Includes small black white image of Recy Taylor. Book cover of At the Dark End of the Street by Danielle I. McGuire.
December 5, 2024 at 5:20 AM
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Day 3: Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#BookSky #BookChallenge
#BlackBookSky #BVM
Book cover of Wicked Flesh: Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World by Jessica Marie Johnson
December 4, 2024 at 2:11 AM
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Day 2: Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#BookSky #BookChallenge
#BlackBookSky #BVM
Book cover of Wild Seed by Octavia Butler.
December 3, 2024 at 1:21 AM
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Day 1:

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#BookSky #BookChallenge #BlackBookSky #BVM
Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments by Saidiya Hartman. Purple and gray book cover with a black and white image of a Black woman adorned in jewels
December 1, 2024 at 3:56 PM
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#nowreading (some I’m returning to)
A stack of books: Color of the Land by David Chang, Reading Territory by Kathryn Walkiewicz, Black Slaves, Indian Masters by Barbara Krauthamer, The Black Shoals by Tiffany Lethabo King, and I’ve been here all the while by Alaina Roberts.
December 1, 2024 at 3:51 PM
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I have perfected my baked turkey wing technique and I’m not ever turning back 🍜 #foodsky
December 1, 2024 at 12:33 AM
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soccer coach taking off headphones with disgust
November 28, 2024 at 1:23 PM
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Our order from Herbert’s Speciality Meats came in today. A cooler full of Cajun delights nom nom nom 🍜 #FoodSky
White styrofoam container full of Cajun meats. Paper with instructions on how to unthaw the turkey inside.
November 14, 2024 at 2:35 AM