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🔆 Sharing stories from the margins, truth from between the lines 🔆 I promote indie/underrepresented creators 🔆 The antidote to the official narrative 🔆 Mixed-race storyteller/editor 🔆 Yonsei 四世 Daburu ダブル Rejisuto レジスト Nidoto nai yoni 二度とないように
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Human Writes Now @humanwritesnow.bsky.social · Aug 19
I was dissatisfied with representation in available feeds so had to generate my own.

See the below and reply post for underrepresented writers/artists and their works.

Hope you like them and find them helpful!

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Wow, honored to have The Buffalo Hunter Hunter on NYT’s 100 Notable Books of 2025:
100 Notable Books of 2025
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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arablit.bsky.social
Please help us out. If you know of a Palestine book club / reading group, let us know.

There is: falasteenbookclub.com

And of course Llegir Palestina: arablite.org/2025/11/10/l...

Where else?
Falasteen Book Club – A growing local book club in the Austin, Texas area dedicated to Palestine. We discuss the history, the culture, the occupation, the geopolitics and various realities that are ra...
falasteenbookclub.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:38 PM
humanwritesnow.bsky.social
For the record, these prohibited words/concepts are precisely the issues public universities should be encouraging discussion around.

Prohibiting discussion is not education, it’s indoctrination into group think, and reinforces historical bias and related privilege. By design.
littlebadger.bsky.social Darcie Little Badger @littlebadger.bsky.social · 13d
This week, I withdrew from a speaking engagement at a public university because they sent me a list of prohibited “words & concepts.” I will not humor this censorship. It does a disservice to the stories I’m discussing & the audience, who deserve unfettered access to information & conversation.
“Prohibited words and concepts: Equity, diversity, & inclusion; anti-racism; Bias; Critical race theory; implicit bias; oppression; intersectionality; prohibited discriminatory practices; racial privilege; promoting stereotypes based on personal identity characteristics.”
November 21, 2025 at 5:38 AM
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filsonhistorical.bsky.social
Thank you to everyone who joined us for a discussion on the role of print in Native American communities. Myaamia artist Megan Sekulich and Mark Alan Mattes shared insights on how printmaking can preserve Indigenous history and culture.

#NativeAmericanArt #Printmaking #Myaamia #CommunityVoices
November 12, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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kash2dawizzle.bsky.social
Abstract Commission Painting 🎨 60x80cm #canvasart #kashartworks

DM for your own

IG: kash2dawizzle

#blackart #blueskyart #blackskycreativesinc
November 18, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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misterman70.bsky.social
A tour de force

Naziyah Mahmood, artist, poet, Astrophysicist Aerospace Engineer and martial artist, by photographer Fiona Brims #WomensArt
November 19, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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jordantrobinson.bsky.social
"Assata Shakur"
Mixed Media
18x24
November 2025
November 20, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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arablit.bsky.social
Palestinian Author Nasser Abu Srour Wins 2025 Prix de La Littérature Arabe

The awards ceremony for the 2025 Prix de la littérature arabe -- held at the Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris on November 18 -- was an emotionally charged affair.
Palestinian Author Nasser Abu Srour Wins 2025 Prix de La Littérature Arabe
The awards ceremony for the 2025 Prix de la littérature arabe -- held at the Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris on November 18 -- was an emotionally charged affair.
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November 20, 2025 at 5:42 AM
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wwborders.bsky.social
Congratulations to our contributor, Robin Myers, for winning the 2025 National Book Award for Translated Literature! She is the translator of WE ARE GREEN AND TREMBLING by Gabriela Cabezón Cámara. We're so thrilled for both of you!
Translated Literature Winner We Are Green and Trembling Gabriela Cabezón Cámara Translated from the Spanish by Robin Myers New Directions Publishing Deep in the wilds of the New World, Antonio de Erauso begins to write a letter to his aunt, the prioress of the Basque convent he escaped as a young girl. Since fleeing a dead-end life as a nun, he’s become Antonio and undertaken monumental adventures: he has been a cabin boy, mule driver, shopkeeper, soldier, and conquistador. Now, caring for two Guaraní girls he rescued from enslavement and hounded by the army he deserted,
November 20, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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This Native American Heritage Month, we encourage you to learn more about Freedman & Black Natives!

Visit IndigenousReadsRisin... for an insightful article on the history of Native Freedman and the legacy of Black Natives as well as related book lists for children, tweens, and teens.
Light brown graphic with orange and gold beaded flowers bordering the top left and bottom right corners. Bold white title text says, “Learn More About Native Freedman & Black Natives: a book list and resource”. There is a small orange “We Need Diverse Books” logo in the bottom left-hand corner of the graphic. Light brown graphic with orange and gold beaded flowers bordering the top left and bottom right corners. Bold white title text says, “Who are Native Freedman?” Beneath that is the following description: “Freedmen is the term for enslaved African Americans emancipated in 1865. Native Freedmen are those people of African descent enslaved by members of the five southeastern tribal nations—Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Muscogee, and Seminole—and like their Native slaveholders, they were forcibly removed during the Trail of Tears from their Indigenous ancestral lands to Indian Territory, now Oklahoma. Today, descendants of Native Freedmen are commonly known simply as Freedmen.” Underneath is a note to read the full article at IndigenousReadsRising.com
November 6, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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tobiascarroll.bsky.social
I have a new column on translated books up at @wwborders.bsky.social! wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...
The Watchlist: October 2025 - Words Without Borders
Tobias Carroll is back with new autumn reads for your TBR list: fiction from Cuba, nonfiction from China, poetry from Uruguay, and much more.
wordswithoutborders.org
October 31, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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soniasulaiman.bsky.social
Cover reveal day for Palestine -1: Stories from the Eve of the Nakba by Comma Press! I have a story in this one. It launches November 13th. Pre-orders are open at the link below:

commapress.co.uk/books/palest...
Palestine - 1 - Stories from the eve of the Nakba | Comma Press
£11.99 (Paperback / Anthology) - Mazen Maarouf, Selma Dabbagh, Ahmad Jaber, Anwar Hamed, Mahmoud Shukair and others
commapress.co.uk
November 3, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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lindahampton.bsky.social
Trying to finish this unnamed sister piece to Annabella and Emily…she’s 24x18, oil on paper… #art #Artwork #oilpainting #oilonpaper #blackart
November 2, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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beatriceiker.bsky.social
Thank you, Becky Spratford and Library Journal, for this interview!

I'LL MAKE A SPECTACLE OF YOU is my Southern Gothic HBCU horror novel with an all-Black and queer cast, out November 18, 2025.

Read the full interview here: www.libraryjournal.com/story/LJ-Tal...

#booksky #blackbooksky
November 1, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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Day 1 of #IndigenousPeoplesMonth: A SNAKE FALLS TO EARTH, Lipan Apache author Darcie Little Badger's (@littlebadger.bsky.social) lauded Indigenous futurist YA fable. Full of monsters and magic, featuring Nina, a Lipan girl, and Oli, a cottonmouth, SNAKE sings in the style of traditional storytelling
The cover of A SNAKE FALLS TO EARTH, featuring a girl wearing a yellow tank and a long brown skirt, with a snake at her feet, against a dusty teal background A photo of author Darcie Little Badger
November 2, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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Indigenous Peoples Month starts today! We'll be showcasing a #sciencefiction, #fantasy, or #horror book every day this month, all by Indigenous female, nonbinary, and trans authors from the United States, Canada, Australia, and the Pacific Islands. Let's make those TBR lists a few 📚 longer!
November 2, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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littlebadger.bsky.social
Let me make one think clear: I will not censor concepts such as diversity, intersectionality, and oppression now or ever. I’d rather lose work.
littlebadger.bsky.social Darcie Little Badger @littlebadger.bsky.social · Nov 3
A speaker agreement I just received prohibits a looooong list of subjects on the basis of HB261 and I need to understand.
November 3, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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weneeddiversebooks.bsky.social
🚨 WNDB is committed to providing emergency grants to diverse authors & illustrators, publishing professionals, and educators experiencing dire financial need due to loss of SNAP benefits. We are now open for a new round of emergency grants, between $250 and $1,000 each.

💻 bit.ly/WNDB-emergency
Royal blue promotional graphic titled “Emergency Grants Open”. Beneath the title text is a row of three illustrations depicting boxes of food donations. At the bottom of the graphic are three rows of text with a bright gold background that contain the following message: “Diverse writers, illustrators, publishing professionals, and educators financially impacted by loss of SNAP benefits or access to food, apply for a grant today!
November 3, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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The characters I draw are real people, events, impressions, and sensations. They are stories, and when naming them, I try to express the substance of the work in words.
November 21, 2024 at 1:33 PM
humanwritesnow.bsky.social
“How can you kill them now?
Under which soil would you bury them,
so that they turn into nothing but glass,
so that your eyes will meet annihilation
one last time
in theirs.”

— Samar Al-Ghussein

Read her powerful poetry in its entirety at the link below.
arablit.bsky.social ArabLit & ArabLit Quarterly @arablit.bsky.social · Oct 16
‘Shadows of My Fate’: Two Poems by Samar Al Ghussein

These two poems are by Samar Al-Ghussein, a young Palestinian writer from Gaza who is at work on her first collection.
‘Shadows of My Fate’: Two Poems by Samar Al Ghussein
These two poems are by Samar Al-Ghussein, a young Palestinian writer from Gaza who is at work on her first collection.
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October 16, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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firstamart.bsky.social
Happy Indigenous Peoples' Day! FAAM is honored to share the beauty, creativity, and unique stories of Indigenous People today and everyday.

#IndigenousPeoplesDay #NativeArt #NativeSky #FirstAmericanArtMagazine
October 13, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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"Thunderhead" by Eugene Ridgely Jr. / Nii’eihii No’oteihi. Northern Arapaho tribal member, artist, culture and language educator & lecturer.

#arapaho #indigenouspeoplesday #abstractart #nativeart
October 13, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social
The People of Pattern Project, 2016 by Yemeni-Bosnian-US artist Alia Ali, on textile, culture and identity #womensar
Photo of a crouching person covered in striped blue and white material from head to toe, the subject is in front of a diamond patterned blue and white background
October 14, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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dustign.bsky.social
Check out what came in the mail today! The new fall issue of #AIQ American Indian Quarterly with my #ledgerdoodle “Oklhilichi” (Dusk) is on the cover. #muskogean #ledgerart #dustign #nativeamericanart #indigenousart #americanindianquarterly
October 15, 2025 at 9:44 PM