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kei {they/them}
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i’m about 📚 books & reading & writing & doing poetry & being awestruck by art 🪩
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kei {they/them} @kei-kairo.bsky.social · Feb 12
📚💙 BIPOC Writer/Anti-disciplinary Artist
🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 Agender Earthbound Dreamer
🪩🪸 No TERFS| ACAB
🌱🍉 LANDBACK Ceasefire 4Evr! Bronzed Oceanic Diaspora✊🏽🪼🌅
kei-kairo.bsky.social
Y’all, these deep edits to the manuscript require 🫀🫁🧠 & a refueling of rest, little treats, & pleasure reading. Shout out to every writer inventing possibilities for imaginations to recover, stretch, shed, & spore💚🦎🪸🍄! TY! Yes YOU!
#writingcommunity #authorsky #wip #diversebooksky
#💙📚🪐
February 24, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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leahpetersen.bsky.social
Reposting with alt text:

I did this just now and it worked.
thelocalmuffin Jan 20 Hey everyone, I know it's going to be a busy day for a lot of people, but Google enrolled everyone over 18 into their Al program automatically. If you have a google account, first go to gemini.google.com/extensions and turn everything off. Then you need to go to myactivity.google.com/product/gemini and turn off all Gemini activity tracking. You do have to do them in that order to make sure it works. Honestly, I'm not sure how long this will last, but this should keep Gemini off your projects for a bit. I saw this over on bluesky and figured it would be good to spread on here. It only takes a few min to do.
February 19, 2025 at 6:40 PM
kei-kairo.bsky.social
🐈‍⬛😻This supreme 🖤 A majestic fluffy black cat with closed eyes rests comfortably in a well lit living room. #catpics #blackcats
A majestic fluffy black cat with closed eyes rests comfortably in a well lit living room.
February 14, 2025 at 10:47 PM
kei-kairo.bsky.social
i’m slow reading @alexispauline.bsky.social Survival is a Promise: the Eternal Life of Audre Lorde & today i learned that young Audre was a fan of Ray Bradbury’s early sci-fi short stories & so was i & now, my child-self has met a new way to be read & it’s a gentle healing ❤️‍🩹💜 #💙📚 #blackbooksky
February 13, 2025 at 4:46 PM
kei-kairo.bsky.social
eating a lil snack & reading @rebeccaroanhorse.bsky.social Trail of Lighting, which is, as we know, amazebalz 💯. for example, this precisely cruel color: “The sky is clear, a sacrilege of spotless brilliant blue…”pg.152. #booksky #diversebooksky #💙📚🪐
February 12, 2025 at 9:49 PM
kei-kairo.bsky.social
📚💙 BIPOC Writer/Anti-disciplinary Artist
🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 Agender Earthbound Dreamer
🪩🪸 No TERFS| ACAB
🌱🍉 LANDBACK Ceasefire 4Evr! Bronzed Oceanic Diaspora✊🏽🪼🌅
February 12, 2025 at 8:57 PM
kei-kairo.bsky.social
ok, here’s 20/20 of the #20bookchallenge with the cover. just gonna state that this entire book’s life has been with me all my days; toniCB💜toniMproductions iykyk
#💙📚🖋️ #blackbooksky #diversebooksky #tonicadebambaratonimorrison
Toni Cade Bambara’s final novel: Those Bones Are Not My Child, edited by Toni Morrison. Sepia tinted photo of fallen branches in a misty waterlogged clearing at dusk.
February 11, 2025 at 9:53 PM
kei-kairo.bsky.social
19/20: choose 20 books that influenced you or stayed with you. No explanations, no reviews, just covers and alt text. #booksky #20bookchallenge #blackbooksky #diversebooksky
Photo of my mass market paperback copy of THE LIVING BLOOD by TANANARIVE DUE; cover art is a person wearing a hoodie with their back in silhouette against a palm tree and hotel neon lit night.
February 10, 2025 at 11:18 PM
kei-kairo.bsky.social
18/20: choose 20 books that influenced you or stayed with you. No explanations, no reviews, just covers and alt text. #booksky #blackpoetry #blackbooksky #diversebooksky
VOYAGE of the SABLE VENUS and other poems by ROBIN COSTE LEWIS. Cover is black and white photograph, Window Shopping by Eudora Welty.
February 10, 2025 at 12:29 AM
kei-kairo.bsky.social
Finally got my copy of #gooddirt and plan to stay out of the snow all Sunday to read, only braving the cold for quick walks with my canine companion. 💜💚💙Wilkerson’s writing and slow building character& story reveals! #booksky #blackbooksky #snowday
Medium black dog curled up on teal couch with Charmaine Wilkerson’s new novel, Good Dirt, in hardback with abstract colorful cover.
February 9, 2025 at 5:18 PM
kei-kairo.bsky.social
17/20: choose 20 books that influenced you or stayed with you. No explanations, no reviews, just covers and alt text. #booksky #blackbooksky #20bookchallenge #diversebooksky
Well loved paperback copy of love conjure/blues by sharon bridgforth; blue background with white and blue lettering. Cover art by Daniel Alexander Jones is called “Conjurers” and is an illustration of seven melanin rich faces against orange background.
February 8, 2025 at 8:10 PM
kei-kairo.bsky.social
16/20: choose 20 books that influenced you or stayed with you. No explanations, no reviews, just covers and alt text. #booksky #blackbooksky #20bookchallenge #diversebooksky
My newish copy of Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God. The paperback with the maroon background and ivory title card with deep red lettering and flowers.
February 8, 2025 at 2:56 AM
kei-kairo.bsky.social
Category is cozy and floofy and unbothered. #catpics #cats #blackcats
Black floofy cat sleeping on multicolored striped Mexican blanket.
February 6, 2025 at 11:57 PM
kei-kairo.bsky.social
15/20: choose 20 books that influenced you or stayed with you. No explanations, no reviews, just covers and alt text. #booksky #blackbooksky #20bookchallenge #diversebooksky
Photo of the paperback SING, UNBURIED, SING A Novel by Jesmyn Ward; deep orange with whitish painted lettering over a loosely rendered black bird with wings spread.
February 6, 2025 at 7:59 PM
kei-kairo.bsky.social
14/20: choose 20 books that influenced you or stayed with you. No explanations, no reviews, just covers and alt text. i’m definitely not gesturing wildly for y’all to get eyes on this book. def breaking rules cuz THIS is my most-most 💜 book. #20bookchallenge #blackbooksky #blackwomxnartists #booksky
Photo of my warped and worn copy of Daughters of the Dust: The Making of an African American Woman’s Film by Julie Dash with Toni Cade Bambara and Bell Hooks. Cover text is all white font, over a screen capture from Dash’s film of three Black Wxmxm, dressed in turn of the 20th century attire, looking past the viewer, their faces warmed by golden sun.
February 5, 2025 at 7:16 PM
kei-kairo.bsky.social
13/20: choose 20 books that influenced you or stayed with you. No explanations, no reviews, just covers and alt text. #20bookchallenge #booksky #diversebooksky
Photo of The Complete Persepolis, the graphic novel by Marianne Satrapi. Black cover with turquoise accents; large profile illustration of a woman with her eyes closed and a dream bubble that holds a multi generational group of five people.
February 4, 2025 at 9:14 PM
kei-kairo.bsky.social
example 0001 of when a writer’s white voice goes 👻: they mean to spell “Nah” but they write “Naw” and I have to stop to wonder if a character has a country accent…
February 4, 2025 at 6:19 PM
kei-kairo.bsky.social
12/20 of #20bookchallenge: Choose 20 books that have stayed/influenced you. One book/day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers and alt text.
This one’s impossible. Might definitely do a Shange post another day. #booksky #blackbooksky #diversebooksky
Photo of paperback, Sassafras, Cypress & Indigo by Ntozake Shange. Title in rainbow colors against an illustration of three Black girls wearing various skirts walking w/ their backs to the viewer along a tree shaded lush path.
February 3, 2025 at 9:02 PM
kei-kairo.bsky.social
11/20 of #20bookchallenge: Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers and alt text
#bookchallenge #booksky #diversebooksky #blackbooksky
Photo of (US ed) hardback of Akwaeke Emezi’s DEAR SENTHURAN: A Black Spirit Memoir. Cover features artwork by Ruby Onyinyechi Amanze, paint and graphite. Art: a sketch of a Black femme with a shoulder length braid looks out; a painted leopard in a blue jacket hovers over the top; a yellow wash of paint at the bottom shaped like a person’s hand.
February 2, 2025 at 10:28 PM
kei-kairo.bsky.social
Reading Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of the Sower in real time. Yes, I’ve read it before; I know it. But reading it in real time pulls on my senses in new ways, makes new things shine. Today is chapter 4. Nothing to read between Jan6 and today. Octavia knew. #booksky #diversebooksky #octaviabutler
February 1, 2025 at 6:53 PM
kei-kairo.bsky.social
10/20 of #20bookchallenge Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers and alt text.
#booksky #diversebooksky
🪐📚 📚💙
Photo of a book stack with the paperback copy of OCTAVIA E. BUTLER’s Parable of the Sower on top. Cover features a Black child’s notebook and hand as they write, with the notes in their lap.
February 1, 2025 at 6:35 PM
kei-kairo.bsky.social
9/20: Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers and alt text. #booksky #lgbtqbooks #diversebooksky #queermemoirs #apiabooks
Ombré teal to coral hardback edition of T Kira Madden’s memoir, Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls, with speckled shimmery bits. Author name in white, title in black, centered. Photo also shows a brown and white woven blanket with accidentally matching socks on a teal cushion.
January 31, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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Santi the cat. Queen of everything. Patron of writers and fish eaters. Lover of those who read. Reader of all rooms. Quietly killing it. An unmatched stare. Thee Supreme. #catpics #blackcats #acab
Black cat sits on shelf with green box and multiple plants.
January 29, 2025 at 8:35 PM
kei-kairo.bsky.social
7/20: Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers and alt text.
💙📚
#BookSky #Diversebooksky #BookChallenge #20BookChallenge
Yabo by Alexis De Veaux. Paperback cover shows a sepia toned photographic/multi layered abstract image of a femme body with key and nail shapes. Cover art by Valerie Maynard (1995), “Get Me Another Heart This One’s Been Broken Many Times.”
January 29, 2025 at 7:54 PM