Joyce Davis
@enjoyceinglife.bsky.social
Proud mom; Writer / Author / Sanctuary Sister Scribe: Fiction, Biography, “Can't Stop the Shine,” Corporate Comms & Journalism; Walker; Culture Appreciator; Howard U; #Enjoyceinglife
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Joyce Davis
@enjoyceinglife.bsky.social
· Mar 25
Excited that the wonderful @raechesny invited me to chat about my experiences at the inaugural #ZoraNealeHurston Summit! Please join our convo about all things Zora TOMORROW, Tuesday, 3/25 on @zoranealehurstontrust’s IG LIVE at 4:30 pm ET. #WritersWrite #BookSky #BlackBookSky #AuthorSky #WriterSky
The power of #reading, #bookclubs & #libraries via #PercivalEverett. www.instagram.com/reel/DPYT_WB... #WriterSky #BookSky #AuthorSky #WritingCommunity #WritersWrite
November 17, 2025 at 4:37 PM
November 16, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Seen on the @atlantabeltline.org: @atlanta.loves.art @mayapapayaart82 @r.kash.art @keith_blackboxartgallery #ArtSky #Art #Atlanta #ArtMoves
November 16, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Seen on the @atlantabeltline.org: @atlanta.loves.art @mayapapayaart82 @r.kash.art @keith_blackboxartgallery #ArtSky #Art #Atlanta #ArtMoves
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Currently reading
You’ve Got a Place Here, Too: An Anthology of Black Live Stories Set at HBCUs
Edited by @ebonyladelle.bsky.social
With stories by @aaronkfoley.bsky.social, @farrahrochon.bsky.social, @kennedyryan.bsky.social & more
www.ebonyladelle.com/youve-got-a-...
#Romancelandia #BookSky
You’ve Got a Place Here, Too: An Anthology of Black Live Stories Set at HBCUs
Edited by @ebonyladelle.bsky.social
With stories by @aaronkfoley.bsky.social, @farrahrochon.bsky.social, @kennedyryan.bsky.social & more
www.ebonyladelle.com/youve-got-a-...
#Romancelandia #BookSky
You've Got a Place Here Too | Ebony LaDelle - Author of Love Radio
www.ebonyladelle.com
November 16, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Currently reading
You’ve Got a Place Here, Too: An Anthology of Black Live Stories Set at HBCUs
Edited by @ebonyladelle.bsky.social
With stories by @aaronkfoley.bsky.social, @farrahrochon.bsky.social, @kennedyryan.bsky.social & more
www.ebonyladelle.com/youve-got-a-...
#Romancelandia #BookSky
You’ve Got a Place Here, Too: An Anthology of Black Live Stories Set at HBCUs
Edited by @ebonyladelle.bsky.social
With stories by @aaronkfoley.bsky.social, @farrahrochon.bsky.social, @kennedyryan.bsky.social & more
www.ebonyladelle.com/youve-got-a-...
#Romancelandia #BookSky
#Sunsets & #writing outside. #Joy. #Atlanta #WritingCommunity #WriterSky #AuthorSky #BookSky #WritersWrite
November 16, 2025 at 3:10 PM
What an awesome & stimulating time as always with artist Annika Jones from Artful Hues & @thetenth.club. Grateful to be in the number discussing the wonderful writer #ValerieBoyd & her deep impact. #Atlanta #CulturalSalons #BookLovers #WritingCommunity #WritersWrite www.instagram.com/reel/DQ9yZFE...
November 12, 2025 at 9:05 PM
What an awesome & stimulating time as always with artist Annika Jones from Artful Hues & @thetenth.club. Grateful to be in the number discussing the wonderful writer #ValerieBoyd & her deep impact. #Atlanta #CulturalSalons #BookLovers #WritingCommunity #WritersWrite www.instagram.com/reel/DQ9yZFE...
It was all the way live at Cascade Skates’ Skatetonia in honor of the 25th anniversary of #Stankonia. #OutKast #andre3000 #bigboi #HometownLove #HipHopForever #ATLBaby #ReadLinerNotes
November 10, 2025 at 4:17 AM
It was all the way live at Cascade Skates’ Skatetonia in honor of the 25th anniversary of #Stankonia. #OutKast #andre3000 #bigboi #HometownLove #HipHopForever #ATLBaby #ReadLinerNotes
Dope ride at Cascade Skates’ Skatetonia in honor of the 25th anniversary of #Stankonia. #OutKast #andre3000 #bigboi #HometownLove #HipHopForever #ATLBaby #ReadLinerNotes
November 10, 2025 at 4:12 AM
Dope ride at Cascade Skates’ Skatetonia in honor of the 25th anniversary of #Stankonia. #OutKast #andre3000 #bigboi #HometownLove #HipHopForever #ATLBaby #ReadLinerNotes
I had a blast getting my roll on last week at Cascade Skate’s Skatetonia in honor of the 25th anniversary of #Stankonia. #OutKast #andre3000 #bigboi #HometownLove #HipHopForever #ATLBaby #ReadLinerNotes
November 10, 2025 at 4:10 AM
I had a blast getting my roll on last week at Cascade Skate’s Skatetonia in honor of the 25th anniversary of #Stankonia. #OutKast #andre3000 #bigboi #HometownLove #HipHopForever #ATLBaby #ReadLinerNotes
Swipe left for the BEST gratitude & shoutouts to #ATL & #Decatur from #OutKast - #BigBoi &
#Andre3000.
#HipHopForever #WritersWrite #Atlanta
#CreativityRules #HometownLove #ReadLinerNotes www.instagram.com/p/DQ0jK3eDAU...
#Andre3000.
#HipHopForever #WritersWrite #Atlanta
#CreativityRules #HometownLove #ReadLinerNotes www.instagram.com/p/DQ0jK3eDAU...
November 9, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Swipe left for the BEST gratitude & shoutouts to #ATL & #Decatur from #OutKast - #BigBoi &
#Andre3000.
#HipHopForever #WritersWrite #Atlanta
#CreativityRules #HometownLove #ReadLinerNotes www.instagram.com/p/DQ0jK3eDAU...
#Andre3000.
#HipHopForever #WritersWrite #Atlanta
#CreativityRules #HometownLove #ReadLinerNotes www.instagram.com/p/DQ0jK3eDAU...
I wrote 746 bad words last night. But I wrote, prioritizing progress over perfection, per #VictoriaChristopherMurray’s advice & #LoriTharps’ Sanctuary 715 November challenge. Let’s see if I can do it again & enjoy it. open.substack.com/pub/vcmwrite... #BlackWriters #BookSky #WritersWrite #Writing
Write Now November
Bad Words Matter!
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November 4, 2025 at 9:39 PM
I wrote 746 bad words last night. But I wrote, prioritizing progress over perfection, per #VictoriaChristopherMurray’s advice & #LoriTharps’ Sanctuary 715 November challenge. Let’s see if I can do it again & enjoy it. open.substack.com/pub/vcmwrite... #BlackWriters #BookSky #WritersWrite #Writing
#TheDiplomat creator #DeboraCahn on planting storylines & not knowing which will grow. This whole Origin Stories podcast episode is excellent if you’re exploring multiple storylines with compelling characters in your #writing. #Storytelling #WritersWrite podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/o...
Debora Cahn on The Diplomat
Podcast Episode · Origin Stories · 10/23/2025 · 31m
podcasts.apple.com
October 29, 2025 at 5:43 AM
#TheDiplomat creator #DeboraCahn on planting storylines & not knowing which will grow. This whole Origin Stories podcast episode is excellent if you’re exploring multiple storylines with compelling characters in your #writing. #Storytelling #WritersWrite podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/o...
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Like "We Are the World," only… better!
“The Sisterhood, 1977,” Vertamae Grosvenor, Alice Walker, Lori Sharpe, Toni Morrison, June Jordan, Nana Maynard, Ntozake Shange, and Audreen Ballard.
💙📚 #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #WritersLife #CreativeWriting
“The Sisterhood, 1977,” Vertamae Grosvenor, Alice Walker, Lori Sharpe, Toni Morrison, June Jordan, Nana Maynard, Ntozake Shange, and Audreen Ballard.
💙📚 #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #WritersLife #CreativeWriting
October 28, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Like "We Are the World," only… better!
“The Sisterhood, 1977,” Vertamae Grosvenor, Alice Walker, Lori Sharpe, Toni Morrison, June Jordan, Nana Maynard, Ntozake Shange, and Audreen Ballard.
💙📚 #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #WritersLife #CreativeWriting
“The Sisterhood, 1977,” Vertamae Grosvenor, Alice Walker, Lori Sharpe, Toni Morrison, June Jordan, Nana Maynard, Ntozake Shange, and Audreen Ballard.
💙📚 #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #WritersLife #CreativeWriting
Who wants to #write EVERY day in November? 🙋🏾♀️ Let’s join #VictoriaChristopherMurray for her #WriteNow November in honor of #NationalNovelWritingMonth! open.substack.com/pub/vcmwrite... #WritersWrite
Write Now November Announcement
30+ novels. 5 Lifetime movies. 5 NAACP nods. From self-published to New York Times Bestseller — and everything they don’t tell you in between.
open.substack.com
October 28, 2025 at 1:54 AM
Who wants to #write EVERY day in November? 🙋🏾♀️ Let’s join #VictoriaChristopherMurray for her #WriteNow November in honor of #NationalNovelWritingMonth! open.substack.com/pub/vcmwrite... #WritersWrite
David Wright Faladé has some good examples of narrative time & how to use background & flashbacks in this short story, which he reads in the New Yorker’s Writer’s Voice podcast. Any any other recommendations would be appreciated. Thanks! www.newyorker.com/podcast/the-... #Writing #Writers #Authors
David Wright Faladé Reads “Amarillo Boulevard”
The author reads his story from the October 6, 2025, issue of the magazine.
www.newyorker.com
October 25, 2025 at 4:56 PM
David Wright Faladé has some good examples of narrative time & how to use background & flashbacks in this short story, which he reads in the New Yorker’s Writer’s Voice podcast. Any any other recommendations would be appreciated. Thanks! www.newyorker.com/podcast/the-... #Writing #Writers #Authors
Via @nytimes.com: “Any lab can test for S.T.I.s, but commercial tests cannot determine whether #gonorrhea will respond to available treatments. #CDC scientists developed the only such test, and provided funding and training to a few dozen labs on the sophisticated testing.”
April 7, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Via @nytimes.com: “Any lab can test for S.T.I.s, but commercial tests cannot determine whether #gonorrhea will respond to available treatments. #CDC scientists developed the only such test, and provided funding and training to a few dozen labs on the sophisticated testing.”
Excited that the wonderful @raechesny invited me to chat about my experiences at the inaugural #ZoraNealeHurston Summit! Please join our convo about all things Zora TOMORROW, Tuesday, 3/25 on @zoranealehurstontrust’s IG LIVE at 4:30 pm ET. #WritersWrite #BookSky #BlackBookSky #AuthorSky #WriterSky
March 25, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Excited that the wonderful @raechesny invited me to chat about my experiences at the inaugural #ZoraNealeHurston Summit! Please join our convo about all things Zora TOMORROW, Tuesday, 3/25 on @zoranealehurstontrust’s IG LIVE at 4:30 pm ET. #WritersWrite #BookSky #BlackBookSky #AuthorSky #WriterSky
Reposted by Joyce Davis
The military story of Jackie Robinson, who broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball after serving as a 2nd lieutenant in the Army, no longer exists on the Department of Defense’s website as part of the Trump administration’s wiping out of DEI within the federal government.
nbcnews.to/4kZ4kgE
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March 19, 2025 at 5:00 PM
The military story of Jackie Robinson, who broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball after serving as a 2nd lieutenant in the Army, no longer exists on the Department of Defense’s website as part of the Trump administration’s wiping out of DEI within the federal government.
nbcnews.to/4kZ4kgE
nbcnews.to/4kZ4kgE
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Consider getting a Black-owned book subscription box to celebrate the last day of #BlackHistoryMonth 📚
booksforblackkids.com/15-black-own...
#booksky #blacksky #blackbooksky #edusky #blackedusky #parenting #parentsky #supportblackownedbusinesses #supportblackbusinesses #economicblackout
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#booksky #blacksky #blackbooksky #edusky #blackedusky #parenting #parentsky #supportblackownedbusinesses #supportblackbusinesses #economicblackout
15 Black-Owned Book Subscription Boxes for Children and Adults | Books for Black Kids
These Black-owned book subscription boxes promote literacy, further self-care, and even donate to local community organizations.
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February 28, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Consider getting a Black-owned book subscription box to celebrate the last day of #BlackHistoryMonth 📚
booksforblackkids.com/15-black-own...
#booksky #blacksky #blackbooksky #edusky #blackedusky #parenting #parentsky #supportblackownedbusinesses #supportblackbusinesses #economicblackout
booksforblackkids.com/15-black-own...
#booksky #blacksky #blackbooksky #edusky #blackedusky #parenting #parentsky #supportblackownedbusinesses #supportblackbusinesses #economicblackout
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UPDATE: A federal judge temporarily blocks the Trump administration from firing the head of the U.S. African Development Foundation, one of the smallest agencies in the federal government, as the agency sues to stop DOGE from shutting it down.
One of the Smallest U.S. Agencies Sues to Block DOGE From Shutting it Down
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
March 7, 2025 at 1:37 AM
UPDATE: A federal judge temporarily blocks the Trump administration from firing the head of the U.S. African Development Foundation, one of the smallest agencies in the federal government, as the agency sues to stop DOGE from shutting it down.
Reposted by Joyce Davis
The Brooklyn Public Library has announced that any teenager in America is now eligible for a Brooklyn Public Library card.
Teens can sign out ebooks + audiobooks
The move is designed to combat censorship, with some titles listed as "always available."
www.bklynlibrary.org/media/press/...
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Brooklyn Public Library Offers Free eCards to Teens Nationwide Facing Book Bans in Local Communities | Brooklyn Public Library
Librarians and Teen Volunteers Spearhead Books Unbanned Initiative to Combat Censorship
www.bklynlibrary.org
February 25, 2025 at 6:19 AM
The Brooklyn Public Library has announced that any teenager in America is now eligible for a Brooklyn Public Library card.
Teens can sign out ebooks + audiobooks
The move is designed to combat censorship, with some titles listed as "always available."
www.bklynlibrary.org/media/press/...
www.bklynlibrary.org/media/press/...
Reposted by Joyce Davis
My latest piece for @teenvogue.com delves into the horrific story of popular skincare ingredient Retin-A.
Before Retin-A was approved by the FDA in 1971, it had been tested on hundreds of incarcerated Black people in Philadelphia, without their informed consent. The survivors still bear the scars.
Before Retin-A was approved by the FDA in 1971, it had been tested on hundreds of incarcerated Black people in Philadelphia, without their informed consent. The survivors still bear the scars.
The miraculous wrinkle-erasing, acne-fighting cream, is the result of decades of horrifying medical abuse.
The Horrifying History Behind a Beloved Skin-Care Ingredient
Retin-A was developed through tests on incarcerated people.
www.teenvogue.com
March 1, 2025 at 11:09 PM
My latest piece for @teenvogue.com delves into the horrific story of popular skincare ingredient Retin-A.
Before Retin-A was approved by the FDA in 1971, it had been tested on hundreds of incarcerated Black people in Philadelphia, without their informed consent. The survivors still bear the scars.
Before Retin-A was approved by the FDA in 1971, it had been tested on hundreds of incarcerated Black people in Philadelphia, without their informed consent. The survivors still bear the scars.
My fave #read last month was #Erasure by #PercivalEverett, which did double duty for my reading for pleasure & #reading for #writing. Added new #books to my library, including from #TaraRoberts & #ImaniPerry. #BookSky #BlackBookSky #WriterSky #AuthorSky #WritingCommunity #BookLovers #WritersWrite
March 6, 2025 at 10:40 PM
My fave #read last month was #Erasure by #PercivalEverett, which did double duty for my reading for pleasure & #reading for #writing. Added new #books to my library, including from #TaraRoberts & #ImaniPerry. #BookSky #BlackBookSky #WriterSky #AuthorSky #WritingCommunity #BookLovers #WritersWrite