Gia Anansi Shakur
@giatheconqueror.bsky.social
MFA @ CCNY student trying not to implode. Work seen in No Dear, Italic Minds, Honey Literary
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We love to see it: contributor @lesliepwriter.bsky.social was published in @greensbororeview.bsky.social! 👏 ✨ buff.ly/IxSS1BY
November 7, 2025 at 4:35 PM
We love to see it: contributor @lesliepwriter.bsky.social was published in @greensbororeview.bsky.social! 👏 ✨ buff.ly/IxSS1BY
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So, this is one of the most Amazing poems I have ever read! @giatheconqueror.bsky.social poets.org/poem/owl-2?u...
The Owl
Violence has changed / me something beautiful
poets.org
April 3, 2025 at 3:08 PM
So, this is one of the most Amazing poems I have ever read! @giatheconqueror.bsky.social poets.org/poem/owl-2?u...
I can tell if a movie has been produced by Netflix. It has
a look.
a look.
January 26, 2025 at 8:58 PM
I can tell if a movie has been produced by Netflix. It has
a look.
a look.
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Libraries are offering free health and wellness classes across the US
Libraries are offering free health and wellness classes across the US
Libraries around across the U.S. are helping people get healthier. They offer fitness classes, food pantries, cooking classes, conversations about loneliness and mental health, and even blood pressure...
apnews.com
November 29, 2024 at 7:11 PM
Libraries are offering free health and wellness classes across the US
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Addams Family Values is an endlessly quotable ’90s gem that should have a place in your Thanksgiving movie rotation — not because it takes place on the actual holiday or teaches us about sharing with others, but because the bizarre family unit.
Cult Classics: Revisiting the Twisted, Unofficial Thanksgiving Dark Comedy ‘Addams Family Values’ | Black Girl Nerds
In 1991, director Barry Sonnenfeld (Schmigadoon!) reintroduced us to cartoonist Charles Addams’ delightfully macabre family who first graced the pages of the New Yorker in his movie The Addams Family....
blackgirlnerds.com
November 28, 2024 at 3:01 PM
Addams Family Values is an endlessly quotable ’90s gem that should have a place in your Thanksgiving movie rotation — not because it takes place on the actual holiday or teaches us about sharing with others, but because the bizarre family unit.
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Comics fam, I’m going to be looking to hire a colorist for a graphic novel I’m working on likely in mid to late January. If you have availability in early 2025, hit me up.
November 28, 2024 at 6:59 AM
Comics fam, I’m going to be looking to hire a colorist for a graphic novel I’m working on likely in mid to late January. If you have availability in early 2025, hit me up.
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I mean, Megan told y’all that biracial with the botched tummy tuck was a bitch-
November 25, 2024 at 10:41 PM
I mean, Megan told y’all that biracial with the botched tummy tuck was a bitch-
There are writers that read better at different times of the year.
November 26, 2024 at 12:34 PM
There are writers that read better at different times of the year.
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After nearly nine years at Esquire, I’ve been laid off from my role as Books and Fiction Editor. I’m looking for a new full-time role where I can use my storytelling skills, in the book world or beyond it. If you know of anything, I’m at adriennewestenfeld@gmail.com. (🧵1/10)
November 25, 2024 at 2:25 PM
After nearly nine years at Esquire, I’ve been laid off from my role as Books and Fiction Editor. I’m looking for a new full-time role where I can use my storytelling skills, in the book world or beyond it. If you know of anything, I’m at adriennewestenfeld@gmail.com. (🧵1/10)
Love this office.
FICTION magazine founding editor Mark Mirsky with student editorial staff, English Department, CUNY. One of the great American literary magazines publishing prose fiction.
November 25, 2024 at 5:15 PM
Love this office.
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We open for full length poetry manuscripts on January 1st. Are you ready?!
riotinyourthroat.com/contact-subm...
riotinyourthroat.com/contact-subm...
kermit the frog is typing on a typewriter .
Alt: kermit the frog is typing on a typewriter .
media.tenor.com
November 25, 2024 at 1:17 PM
We open for full length poetry manuscripts on January 1st. Are you ready?!
riotinyourthroat.com/contact-subm...
riotinyourthroat.com/contact-subm...
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Sundress Publications is open for submissions for grant applications from Palestinian writers with a chapbook or full-length book in progress.
All eligible authors are welcome to submit during our application period which closes on December 31st, 2024.
www.sundresspublications.com/submit#pgrant
All eligible authors are welcome to submit during our application period which closes on December 31st, 2024.
www.sundresspublications.com/submit#pgrant
www.sundresspublications.com
November 25, 2024 at 1:15 PM
Sundress Publications is open for submissions for grant applications from Palestinian writers with a chapbook or full-length book in progress.
All eligible authors are welcome to submit during our application period which closes on December 31st, 2024.
www.sundresspublications.com/submit#pgrant
All eligible authors are welcome to submit during our application period which closes on December 31st, 2024.
www.sundresspublications.com/submit#pgrant
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"At some point in life, the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is enough. No record of it needs to be kept and you don't need someone to share it with or tell it to."
—Toni Morrison
—Toni Morrison
November 23, 2024 at 1:00 AM
"At some point in life, the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is enough. No record of it needs to be kept and you don't need someone to share it with or tell it to."
—Toni Morrison
—Toni Morrison
Oh Kendrick … this was lovely.
November 23, 2024 at 5:03 AM
Oh Kendrick … this was lovely.
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This era is strange because it is both socially/culturally regressive, yet technologically accelerationist.
Backward + forward at the same time. With human erasure being the goal.
I think those interested in cultural preservation, archival work— resisting erasure will be *especially* important.
Backward + forward at the same time. With human erasure being the goal.
I think those interested in cultural preservation, archival work— resisting erasure will be *especially* important.
November 21, 2024 at 1:09 AM
This era is strange because it is both socially/culturally regressive, yet technologically accelerationist.
Backward + forward at the same time. With human erasure being the goal.
I think those interested in cultural preservation, archival work— resisting erasure will be *especially* important.
Backward + forward at the same time. With human erasure being the goal.
I think those interested in cultural preservation, archival work— resisting erasure will be *especially* important.
Whoa - deja vu 😭
November 23, 2024 at 3:22 AM
Whoa - deja vu 😭