K.R. Parker, Ph.D. (she/her)
@howard2home.bsky.social
“What would you do, truly, if you were not afraid?” -Octavia E. Butler
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HU👩🏾🎓Fun Sized 🤗Lifelong learner💕
🆕 Understanding Octavia E. Butler (2025) 📚 Bloomsbury Handbook to Octavia E. Butler (2020) 🧛🏾♀️She Bites Back (2018)
https://linktr.ee/drkrparker
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After you watch Sinners, you should read George R.R. Martin’s excellent and underrated vampire novel
After you watch Sinners, you should read George R.R. Martin’s excellent and underrated vampire novel
The Game of Thrones author writes more than great fantasy stories
www.polygon.com
Nope.
Wanna read some blood sucking #BlackVampires ?🧛🏾♀️Gomez’s The Gilda Stories🧛🏾♀️Butler’s Fledgling
🧛🏾♀️Banks’ Vampire Huntress Legend Series
🧛🏿♂️Johnson’s Image of Emeralds and Chocolate🧛🏿♂️Massey’s Dark Corner
🧛🏿♂️Girma’s Immortal Dark🧛🏾♀️Dennings’ This Ravenous Fate
Wanna read some blood sucking #BlackVampires ?🧛🏾♀️Gomez’s The Gilda Stories🧛🏾♀️Butler’s Fledgling
🧛🏾♀️Banks’ Vampire Huntress Legend Series
🧛🏿♂️Johnson’s Image of Emeralds and Chocolate🧛🏿♂️Massey’s Dark Corner
🧛🏿♂️Girma’s Immortal Dark🧛🏾♀️Dennings’ This Ravenous Fate
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COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) — Texas A&M adopts policy requiring professors to get OK from school president to discuss certain race and gender issues.
November 13, 2025 at 11:15 PM
COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) — Texas A&M adopts policy requiring professors to get OK from school president to discuss certain race and gender issues.
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Trump, who rushed to the Supreme Court on Friday, is hellbent in his refusal to bring much-needed aid to the country's neediest.
Trump's war on the hungry continues with Supreme Court win
The pause allows, for now, the president to keep using hungry Americans as a political weapon.
www.motherjones.com
November 8, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Trump, who rushed to the Supreme Court on Friday, is hellbent in his refusal to bring much-needed aid to the country's neediest.
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Trey Reed, a student at Delta State University in Mississippi, was found hanging from a noose. Mississippi police ruled the death a suicide. Now an autopsy reportedly concludes that he suffered extensive blunt force trauma across his body before he died, meaning he was beaten before he was lynched.
Kaepernick-Funded Autopsy Reportedly Finds Trey Reed Didn’t Die by Suicide — Family Attorney Ben Crump Hasn’t Confirmed
According to a source who isn't authorized to comment publicly, the autopsy of Trey Reed reveals that his death was not caused by a suicide.
www.blackenterprise.com
October 5, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Trey Reed, a student at Delta State University in Mississippi, was found hanging from a noose. Mississippi police ruled the death a suicide. Now an autopsy reportedly concludes that he suffered extensive blunt force trauma across his body before he died, meaning he was beaten before he was lynched.
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I always pay attention to what stories People Magazine and other consumer media outlets cover. That's how you can tell that something has broken through the usual political and news bubbles. This horrific Chicago story has broken through. people.com/ice-agents-o...
ICE Agents Rappel from Helicopter in Overnight Chicago Raid, Dragging Kids from Beds to U-Hauls
Overnight on Tuesday, Sept. 30, federal agents from different agencies raided an apartment building on the South Side of Chicago, pulling men, women and children — some of them allegedly naked — from ...
people.com
October 2, 2025 at 11:59 PM
I always pay attention to what stories People Magazine and other consumer media outlets cover. That's how you can tell that something has broken through the usual political and news bubbles. This horrific Chicago story has broken through. people.com/ice-agents-o...
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No accountability for the MOVE bombing in Philly was one of the stepping stones for what’s happening in DC, Chicago, LA, Memphis right now.
October 3, 2025 at 1:12 PM
No accountability for the MOVE bombing in Philly was one of the stepping stones for what’s happening in DC, Chicago, LA, Memphis right now.
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Man, I'm sorry, but reading all these AI generated essays from students, it just sucks all the joy out of everything. It's exhausting, makes you into a weird paranoid cop, grinds you down, wastes your time, makes you feel like shit about everything.
Fuck this shit technology and all its enablers.
Fuck this shit technology and all its enablers.
October 1, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Man, I'm sorry, but reading all these AI generated essays from students, it just sucks all the joy out of everything. It's exhausting, makes you into a weird paranoid cop, grinds you down, wastes your time, makes you feel like shit about everything.
Fuck this shit technology and all its enablers.
Fuck this shit technology and all its enablers.
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🎶 Take a look, it's in a book 🎶
🥹 After nearly 20 years... Reading Rainbow is returning to motivate, help, and encourage kids to become avid readers with new episodes, new friends, new projects, and of course... new books! Make sure to follow the rainbow 📚🌈
#FollowTheRainbow
🥹 After nearly 20 years... Reading Rainbow is returning to motivate, help, and encourage kids to become avid readers with new episodes, new friends, new projects, and of course... new books! Make sure to follow the rainbow 📚🌈
#FollowTheRainbow
September 29, 2025 at 3:06 PM
🎶 Take a look, it's in a book 🎶
🥹 After nearly 20 years... Reading Rainbow is returning to motivate, help, and encourage kids to become avid readers with new episodes, new friends, new projects, and of course... new books! Make sure to follow the rainbow 📚🌈
#FollowTheRainbow
🥹 After nearly 20 years... Reading Rainbow is returning to motivate, help, and encourage kids to become avid readers with new episodes, new friends, new projects, and of course... new books! Make sure to follow the rainbow 📚🌈
#FollowTheRainbow
My fav thing to grasp onto in movies & books right now is characters researching in libraries (Blood in the Water), relying on reputable books & reliable data for info (San Andreas, 2015), & the like.
It notice it more because of where we are & because of
::gestures wildly:: all the things.
It notice it more because of where we are & because of
::gestures wildly:: all the things.
a picture of a cat with the words did somebody say " books "
Alt: a picture of a cat with the words did somebody say " books "?
media.tenor.com
September 28, 2025 at 8:32 PM
My fav thing to grasp onto in movies & books right now is characters researching in libraries (Blood in the Water), relying on reputable books & reliable data for info (San Andreas, 2015), & the like.
It notice it more because of where we are & because of
::gestures wildly:: all the things.
It notice it more because of where we are & because of
::gestures wildly:: all the things.
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“It is our duty to fight for our freedom. It is our duty to win.
We must love each other and support each other. We have nothing to lose but our chains.”
-Assata
We must love each other and support each other. We have nothing to lose but our chains.”
-Assata
September 26, 2025 at 7:38 PM
“It is our duty to fight for our freedom. It is our duty to win.
We must love each other and support each other. We have nothing to lose but our chains.”
-Assata
We must love each other and support each other. We have nothing to lose but our chains.”
-Assata
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“Pastor i feel like im losing my faith”
Lose it…. Allow yourself to be transformed and begin again
Lose it…. Allow yourself to be transformed and begin again
September 26, 2025 at 1:39 PM
“Pastor i feel like im losing my faith”
Lose it…. Allow yourself to be transformed and begin again
Lose it…. Allow yourself to be transformed and begin again
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Fuck Tinder.
Fuck Bumble.
Fuck all them dating apps.
Let’s get straight to it.
Fuck Bumble.
Fuck all them dating apps.
Let’s get straight to it.
September 26, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Fuck Tinder.
Fuck Bumble.
Fuck all them dating apps.
Let’s get straight to it.
Fuck Bumble.
Fuck all them dating apps.
Let’s get straight to it.
@authormsbev.bsky.social would be so proud ☺️☺️☺️
I’m about to write a 1 to 2-page handwritten love letter in cursive.
Just for fun & to no one in particular…just to keep my skills sharpened.
Stay ready so you don’t have to get ready.
Just for fun & to no one in particular…just to keep my skills sharpened.
Stay ready so you don’t have to get ready.
September 26, 2025 at 3:50 AM
@authormsbev.bsky.social would be so proud ☺️☺️☺️
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I like Jimmy Kimmel. I really do. I have no issues with him.
I'm talking about something very different.
Kimmel was only suspended. But he's back now. Karen Attiah and all the other Black journalists are still fired.
Y'all do know how to fight, when you want to.
But you don't really want to. 🤷🏿♂️
I'm talking about something very different.
Kimmel was only suspended. But he's back now. Karen Attiah and all the other Black journalists are still fired.
Y'all do know how to fight, when you want to.
But you don't really want to. 🤷🏿♂️
September 23, 2025 at 11:55 AM
I like Jimmy Kimmel. I really do. I have no issues with him.
I'm talking about something very different.
Kimmel was only suspended. But he's back now. Karen Attiah and all the other Black journalists are still fired.
Y'all do know how to fight, when you want to.
But you don't really want to. 🤷🏿♂️
I'm talking about something very different.
Kimmel was only suspended. But he's back now. Karen Attiah and all the other Black journalists are still fired.
Y'all do know how to fight, when you want to.
But you don't really want to. 🤷🏿♂️
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But WAIT
this poem by Jacqueline Woodson is so beautiful!
#PoetryPeople @thevogelman.bsky.social @marcusluther.bsky.social
this poem by Jacqueline Woodson is so beautiful!
#PoetryPeople @thevogelman.bsky.social @marcusluther.bsky.social
September 22, 2025 at 1:12 AM
But WAIT
this poem by Jacqueline Woodson is so beautiful!
#PoetryPeople @thevogelman.bsky.social @marcusluther.bsky.social
this poem by Jacqueline Woodson is so beautiful!
#PoetryPeople @thevogelman.bsky.social @marcusluther.bsky.social
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It is fucked up what they did to the headphone jack
i don't want to hear your most boomer complaint. what's your most millennial complaint?
September 20, 2025 at 12:24 AM
It is fucked up what they did to the headphone jack
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Post a movie you *LOVE* with a terrible rotten tomatoes score
September 17, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Post a movie you *LOVE* with a terrible rotten tomatoes score
Jurassic Park 2
Ever After
Fifth Element
Ever After
Fifth Element
Build a trilogy out of 3 unrelated Films.
September 16, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Jurassic Park 2
Ever After
Fifth Element
Ever After
Fifth Element
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With students heading back to the classroom, a group of cognitive scientists and AI researchers has published one of the most forceful and evidence-backed calls yet to reject the "uncritical adoption of AI" in academia:
Cognitive scientists and AI researchers make a forceful call to reject “uncritical adoption" of AI in academia
A new paper calls on academia to repel rampant AI in university departments and classrooms.
www.bloodinthemachine.com
September 9, 2025 at 6:23 PM
With students heading back to the classroom, a group of cognitive scientists and AI researchers has published one of the most forceful and evidence-backed calls yet to reject the "uncritical adoption of AI" in academia:
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South Koreans detained in ICE raid at Hyundai electric vehicle site in Georgia
South Koreans detained in ICE raid at Hyundai electric vehicle site in Georgia
The raid has sparked an angry response from South Korea which called it an unjust infringement of people's rights.
www.bbc.com
September 5, 2025 at 11:10 AM
South Koreans detained in ICE raid at Hyundai electric vehicle site in Georgia
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Excited and proud. wapo.st/4p89Xes
Amy Sherald takes canceled Smithsonian show to Baltimore Museum of Art
Amy Sherald had withdrawn her exhibition “American Sublime” from the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery, citing potential censorship of one of her works.
wapo.st
September 5, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Excited and proud. wapo.st/4p89Xes
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Four Georgia Southern faculty members publish books taking historical research beyond the library: www.griceconnect.com/education/fo... check out this spotlight on @howard2home.bsky.social and her recent book, Understanding Octavia E. Butler!
Four Georgia Southern faculty members publish books taking historical research beyond the library
From the depths of Victorian archives to the heart of Sherman’s March and more, Georgia Southern University professors are bringing new perspectives to well-known historical topics through their recen...
www.griceconnect.com
September 4, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Four Georgia Southern faculty members publish books taking historical research beyond the library: www.griceconnect.com/education/fo... check out this spotlight on @howard2home.bsky.social and her recent book, Understanding Octavia E. Butler!
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Write members of Congress and demand tha COVID-19 vaccines be available this fall to all who need them
Write members of Congress - Will COVID-19 vaccines be available this fall?
It is clear that HHS Secretary RFK Jr. is on a dangerous and fast-moving path to make COVID-19 vaccines totally unavailable here in the U.S. With COVID-19 cases on the rise in many parts of the US an...
actionnetwork.org
August 30, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Write members of Congress and demand tha COVID-19 vaccines be available this fall to all who need them
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F*ck‼️
Fort Bliss Army base used for a WWII Japanese internment is now the nation's largest ICE detention center.
Fort Bliss Army base used for a WWII Japanese internment is now the nation's largest ICE detention center.
August 24, 2025 at 3:11 PM
F*ck‼️
Fort Bliss Army base used for a WWII Japanese internment is now the nation's largest ICE detention center.
Fort Bliss Army base used for a WWII Japanese internment is now the nation's largest ICE detention center.
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