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briana
@heybrianaj.bsky.social
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📍new york city. she/her. southern university alumna. ark-la-tex native. pr girl and writer with commentary and criticism on books, cinema, theater, fashion, arts & culture.
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“The sickness that once detached him from life had now made him greedy for experience.” How Robert Louis Stevenson navigated a lifetime of chronic illness.
Robert Louis Stevenson’s Art of Living (and Dying)
On summer break from his university studies, a young Robert Louis Stevenson worked late into the night. He apprenticed in his family’s lighthouse engineering business but had no interest in the tra…
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November 13, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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Susan Neiman on the symbolic struggles that came to be called “woke”
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November 13, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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I’d love to connect with people who are in or interested in film/cinema studies; specifically from a theoretical, critical, and historical standpoint.

Archivists, academics, scholars, librarians, historians, curators, and programmers are welcome.
November 5, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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Folk horror, religious horror, psychosexual thrillers, and noir/neo-noir.
a woman in a striped suit is looking up at the sun
ALT: a woman in a striped suit is looking up at the sun
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November 1, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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Two of my books came! 📚

• Black Ivy: A Revolt in Style by Graham Marsh and Jason Jules

• Superfine: Tailoring Black Style by Amanda Garfinkel, Monica L. Miller, and William DeGregorio #MetGala
October 31, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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“Without creativity, we cannot revolt.” — Nawal El Saadawi
October 27, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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Do I need to get back into my fantasy bag? So much of current American book publishing and marketing sucks the fun out of genre fiction. I realized this is my issue with a lot of American romance and mystery novels today.
October 9, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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Writers: when was the last time you had a grammar refresher?
October 6, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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Where are the film fans who actually enjoy movies?
October 6, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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J'écoute les infos sur une station de radio française. Je comprends la moitié, mais je vais m'améliorer.
October 6, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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Are you in the mood to read me, @jamellebouie.net , @mangiotto.bsky.social and/or @midcenturycinema.bsky.social on John Frankenheimer's innovatively shot, incredibly unsettling and still wildly timely cult classic Seconds, released on this date in 1966? Thought so!
October 5, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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We refuse to be intimidated by the Trump administration’s attacks on our rights and communities.

Join us on Saturday, October 18 for the NYC No Kings march:
No Kings Day of Action NYC - NYCLU
www.nyclu.org
October 5, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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The NYPD's SRG has brutalized protesters, violated First Amendment rights, and operated with impunity for far too long.

With First Amendment rights under attack across the country, now is the time to pass the CURB Act and safeguard New Yorkers' right to protest.

Add your name:
CURB the NYPD’s Abuse of Protesters
Please take action!
action.aclu.org
September 16, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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WGA Statement on ABC’s Decision to Pull Jimmy Kimmel Live!
The right to speak our minds and to disagree with each other - to disturb, even - is at the very heart of what it means to be a free people. It is not to be denied. Not by violence, not by the abuse of governmental power, nor by acts of corporate cowardice. As a Guild, we stand united in opposition to anyone who uses their power and influence to silence the voices of writers, or anyone who speaks in dissent. If free speech applied only to ideas we like, we needn't have bothered to write it into the Constitution. What we have signed on to - painful as it may be at times - is the freeing agreement to disagree. Shame on those in government who forget this founding truth. As for our employers, our words have made you rich. Silencing us impoverishes the whole world. The WA stands with Jimmy Kimmel and his writers.
September 18, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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The following is a statement from the WGA on ABC’s decision to pull ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’
WGA Statement on ABC's Decision to Pull ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ The right to speak our minds and to disagree with each other - to disturb, even - is at the very heart of what it means to be a free people. It is not to be denied. Not by violence, not by the abuse of governmental power, nor by acts of corporate cowardice. As a Guild, we stand united in opposition to anyone who uses their power and influence to silence the voices of writers, or anyone who speaks in dissent. If free speech applied only to ideas we like, we needn't have bothered to write it into the Constitution. What we have signed on to - painful as it may be at times - is the freeing agreement to disagree. Shame on those in government who forget this founding truth. As for our employers, our words have made you rich. Silencing us impoverishes the whole world. The WGA stands with Jimmy Kimmel and his writers.
September 18, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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Unfortunately for you lot, I’m going to be even more woke and pretentious about art and culture and even more of a stickler for intellectualism. Y’all have let willfully ignorant people get away with too much.
September 14, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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Here are four of my favorite novels. #BrianaReads
September 8, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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The National Book Awards Longlists are dropping this week. We'll see which books were nominated in Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Translated Literature, and Young People's Literature. I'm excited! #NBAwards @nationalbook.bsky.social
September 8, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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I hate the book cover trend that is literally just huge blocky text with the title and author's name. Mystery and thriller books have it bad about that. Bring back the cover artists and illustrators.
September 8, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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I love the elder millennials who didn't leave NYC and LA to become tradwives or crypto/tech/corporate influencers and are still sticking it out with labor unions and speaking up for people who entered creative industries after them. I don't think y'all get enough credit.
September 4, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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I’ve fallen victim to 90s & 2000s millennial nostalgia.
August 30, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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I'm reading Susan Sontag's essay "Fascinating Fascism," and she's speaking about the fetishization of Nazi aesthetics in sex and pornography. She's cooking and talking about the way it was aligned with sexual adventurism and erotic paraphernalia. #BrianaReads
August 30, 2025 at 1:57 AM
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Audition by Katie Kitamura is on the 2025 Booker Prize long list and it might have gotten an Obama boost. From what I see, this is pretty divisive but I LOVED Audition and thought it was perfect. #BrianaReads
obamafoundation.bsky.social The Obama Foundation @obamafoundation.bsky.social · Aug 27
President Obama’s 2025 summer reading list is here – but this year, he added something new. Alongside the books, you’ll find his own handwritten reflections on why each one made the list.

✍🏾 📖: obama.org/stories/pres...
President Obama’s favorite reads of the summer
Check out President Obama’s summer book picks—in his own words.
obama.org
August 27, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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I never considered myself into weird girl litfic but then I just saw a post of like… 15 books in that canon and I read all of them and liked them. In true millennial fashion, I’m not a fan of labels. #BrianaReads
August 23, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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I’m currently reading Dante’s “The Divine Comedy” and I’m on “Inferno” right now. It’s good but like… girl okay, we get it. #BrianaReads
August 22, 2025 at 7:45 PM