Toya (Iyawo Osuntajobo, Iya Eguntola)
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Iya Ọpa. Iyawo Oshun. Mama. Storyteller. Hoodoo. Conjurewoman. Bone reader. Baltimore girl. She/her.
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January 25, 2025 at 6:34 PM
The renewal of my commitment not to talk to them folk about anything that matters to we.
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You don't speak here.
*insert Jabari barks*
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January 20, 2025 at 4:46 PM
The renewal of my commitment not to talk to them folk about anything that matters to we.
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This evening on IG Live! 6 PM EST!
Come join Priests from the Sweet Water Collective to hear more thoughts on Iyalosa Osunyemi Akalatunde’s Reading of the Year.
Come join Priests from the Sweet Water Collective to hear more thoughts on Iyalosa Osunyemi Akalatunde’s Reading of the Year.
January 5, 2025 at 8:08 PM
This evening on IG Live! 6 PM EST!
Come join Priests from the Sweet Water Collective to hear more thoughts on Iyalosa Osunyemi Akalatunde’s Reading of the Year.
Come join Priests from the Sweet Water Collective to hear more thoughts on Iyalosa Osunyemi Akalatunde’s Reading of the Year.
My godmother @got2boshun will be doing her annual Reading of the Year at 2:30 PM EST. Come and hear what the Orisha have to say about this calendar year.
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January 1, 2025 at 5:13 AM
My godmother @got2boshun will be doing her annual Reading of the Year at 2:30 PM EST. Come and hear what the Orisha have to say about this calendar year.
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Even if all eating black-eyed peas and greens does for you is make you feel part of an unbroken chain going back hundreds of years or connected to people of African descent all over, then it’s of indescribable value.
December 31, 2024 at 12:14 AM
Even if all eating black-eyed peas and greens does for you is make you feel part of an unbroken chain going back hundreds of years or connected to people of African descent all over, then it’s of indescribable value.
The traditions our ancestors passed down are *for* us - to defend, protect, prosper, and grow us. If they’re a burden to you, don’t do them. They should be things you do with joy. If you can’t in this moment, wait until you can.
December 31, 2024 at 12:14 AM
The traditions our ancestors passed down are *for* us - to defend, protect, prosper, and grow us. If they’re a burden to you, don’t do them. They should be things you do with joy. If you can’t in this moment, wait until you can.
So hey. I started a Substack.
I wanted a way to give y’all access to my writing without waiting for a book to be finished or a short story to be published.
I don’t know how often I’ll add to it but this is the place to follow my road to becoming a capital w Writer.
toyareneesmith.substack.com
I wanted a way to give y’all access to my writing without waiting for a book to be finished or a short story to be published.
I don’t know how often I’ll add to it but this is the place to follow my road to becoming a capital w Writer.
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From Weeping Comes Joy | Toya Renée Smith | Substack
Writing my way to being a Writer. Click to read From Weeping Comes Joy, by Toya Renée Smith, a Substack publication. Launched a minute ago.
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December 30, 2024 at 7:09 PM
So hey. I started a Substack.
I wanted a way to give y’all access to my writing without waiting for a book to be finished or a short story to be published.
I don’t know how often I’ll add to it but this is the place to follow my road to becoming a capital w Writer.
toyareneesmith.substack.com
I wanted a way to give y’all access to my writing without waiting for a book to be finished or a short story to be published.
I don’t know how often I’ll add to it but this is the place to follow my road to becoming a capital w Writer.
toyareneesmith.substack.com
Habari gani? Kujichagulia!
Today we focus on self-determination, on our ability to name, define, create, & speak for ourselves. You are not honoring the principle if you don’t honor & respect every Black person’s right to name & claim themselves, including pronouns, gender identity, and sexuality.
Today we focus on self-determination, on our ability to name, define, create, & speak for ourselves. You are not honoring the principle if you don’t honor & respect every Black person’s right to name & claim themselves, including pronouns, gender identity, and sexuality.
December 27, 2024 at 6:12 PM
Habari gani? Kujichagulia!
Today we focus on self-determination, on our ability to name, define, create, & speak for ourselves. You are not honoring the principle if you don’t honor & respect every Black person’s right to name & claim themselves, including pronouns, gender identity, and sexuality.
Today we focus on self-determination, on our ability to name, define, create, & speak for ourselves. You are not honoring the principle if you don’t honor & respect every Black person’s right to name & claim themselves, including pronouns, gender identity, and sexuality.
December 27, 2024 at 6:09 PM
I am not an “Aw, shucks. It was nothing” type of mother. Parenting is not nothing. It’s not a thing to wave away. I have worked HARD. I have sacrificed. Wept. Changed. Grown. Dug deep to be a good example and a safe place. I am seeing the fruits of that labor.
December 27, 2024 at 6:08 PM
I am not an “Aw, shucks. It was nothing” type of mother. Parenting is not nothing. It’s not a thing to wave away. I have worked HARD. I have sacrificed. Wept. Changed. Grown. Dug deep to be a good example and a safe place. I am seeing the fruits of that labor.
The Kid got me a laptop for Christmas.
As she presented it to me, she said, “It comes with a caveat. You must finish your first book on it.”
I’m still weeping.
Nobody believes in me like my baby.
As she presented it to me, she said, “It comes with a caveat. You must finish your first book on it.”
I’m still weeping.
Nobody believes in me like my baby.
December 27, 2024 at 6:08 PM
The Kid got me a laptop for Christmas.
As she presented it to me, she said, “It comes with a caveat. You must finish your first book on it.”
I’m still weeping.
Nobody believes in me like my baby.
As she presented it to me, she said, “It comes with a caveat. You must finish your first book on it.”
I’m still weeping.
Nobody believes in me like my baby.
That feeling of when your daughter (who’s a baby so I don’t know how this is happening) is applying to GRADUATE SCHOOL.
Torn between: Everybody will want you because you are perfect & they’d be lucky to have you even breathe on their campus & NOOOOOOO YOU’RE A BABY AND YOU NEED TO BE WITH MAMA!!!
Torn between: Everybody will want you because you are perfect & they’d be lucky to have you even breathe on their campus & NOOOOOOO YOU’RE A BABY AND YOU NEED TO BE WITH MAMA!!!
December 15, 2024 at 4:27 PM
That feeling of when your daughter (who’s a baby so I don’t know how this is happening) is applying to GRADUATE SCHOOL.
Torn between: Everybody will want you because you are perfect & they’d be lucky to have you even breathe on their campus & NOOOOOOO YOU’RE A BABY AND YOU NEED TO BE WITH MAMA!!!
Torn between: Everybody will want you because you are perfect & they’d be lucky to have you even breathe on their campus & NOOOOOOO YOU’RE A BABY AND YOU NEED TO BE WITH MAMA!!!
SOLD.
I haven’t read this book but it’s apparently about a geek who grows up to be a cowboy AND THEN A VAMPIRE who’s also a “sex machine” (the book’s words) and now his geeky friend wants sex lessons. Romance plots are the best, I will not be taking questions at this time.
December 4, 2024 at 7:50 PM
SOLD.
Benefits of living within walking distance of your mother: When your daughter tells her you’re riding the Crimson Tide and cramping too much to stand long, she brings over homemade turkey and rice soup and frosty ginger ale.
December 4, 2024 at 6:35 PM
Benefits of living within walking distance of your mother: When your daughter tells her you’re riding the Crimson Tide and cramping too much to stand long, she brings over homemade turkey and rice soup and frosty ginger ale.
Bluesky feels very “serious” to me. I assume it’s because of the way I’ve built my feed so far. But yeah … it doesn’t feel fun. Which … *waves in the general direction of the world* … but I need tidings of comfort and joy right now.
December 3, 2024 at 7:34 PM
Bluesky feels very “serious” to me. I assume it’s because of the way I’ve built my feed so far. But yeah … it doesn’t feel fun. Which … *waves in the general direction of the world* … but I need tidings of comfort and joy right now.
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Write generously for an audience who loves your work, not defensively for an audience who hates it
December 2, 2024 at 11:31 PM
Write generously for an audience who loves your work, not defensively for an audience who hates it
Also, I went to RPMS and remember when we weren’t allowed in there.
December 3, 2024 at 12:24 AM
Also, I went to RPMS and remember when we weren’t allowed in there.
Yikes.
December 3, 2024 at 12:23 AM
Yikes.