Marie D
@mariedspace.bsky.social
https://linktr.ee/maried
✍🏿 Writer 🎓 Graduate student ✊🏿 Africa + diaspora scholar 🎨 Lover of arts, culture, and humanities
💜 YA Fantasy novel Still Water, Skin out now!
✍🏿 Writer 🎓 Graduate student ✊🏿 Africa + diaspora scholar 🎨 Lover of arts, culture, and humanities
💜 YA Fantasy novel Still Water, Skin out now!
Pinned
Still Water, Skin is out in the world today! This month, five years ago during Covid, I wrote most of the first draft during #NaNoWriMo, which I'm sad to see is no longer running but am forever grateful for.
Get it in eBook or paperback: buy.bookfunnel.com/netbbw767l
#Booksky #IndieAuthor
Get it in eBook or paperback: buy.bookfunnel.com/netbbw767l
#Booksky #IndieAuthor
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Help us send 2,000 books to readers who are incarcerated this winter through our Books Not Bars program
Books Not Bars For The Holidays
Haymarket Books is committed to making our books available for free to people who are incarcerated.
In an effort to support those inside who are dealing with the immense violence of the prison syste...
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December 18, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Help us send 2,000 books to readers who are incarcerated this winter through our Books Not Bars program
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Ryan Coogler explains why he declined the invitation to join the Academy www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/m...
December 10, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Ryan Coogler explains why he declined the invitation to join the Academy www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/m...
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University of Alabama suspended publication of two student-run magazines, claiming they weren’t in compliance with federal guidance on DEI
“This is an attack on the student press and nothing less”
“This is an attack on the student press and nothing less”
University of Alabama shuts down student magazines for Black students, women students
University officials told editors of Alice and Nineteen Fifty-Six that they believed they were out of compliance with Trump administration guidance on anti-DEI policies.
www.whatimreading.net
December 4, 2025 at 12:37 AM
University of Alabama suspended publication of two student-run magazines, claiming they weren’t in compliance with federal guidance on DEI
“This is an attack on the student press and nothing less”
“This is an attack on the student press and nothing less”
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NEWS: The Institute of Museum & Library Services has restored ALL previously canceled federal grants to libraries, following a ruling by a federal judge in Rhode Island last month.
This is a massive win for libraries & communities in every state & territory!
Learn more: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...
This is a massive win for libraries & communities in every state & territory!
Learn more: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...
December 3, 2025 at 10:18 PM
NEWS: The Institute of Museum & Library Services has restored ALL previously canceled federal grants to libraries, following a ruling by a federal judge in Rhode Island last month.
This is a massive win for libraries & communities in every state & territory!
Learn more: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...
This is a massive win for libraries & communities in every state & territory!
Learn more: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...
“The arts remind us that none of the current truisms are absolutes—that there are other ways of living.”
The Artist Who Reminds Us that Another Way Is Possible
The late artist Abigail McGrath cultivated a creative life for herself filled with freedom, joy, and a commitment to beauty. In an age of authoritarianism and algorithms, it’s a kind of life worth pro...
www.harpersbazaar.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:22 AM
“The arts remind us that none of the current truisms are absolutes—that there are other ways of living.”
Still Water, Skin is out in the world today! This month, five years ago during Covid, I wrote most of the first draft during #NaNoWriMo, which I'm sad to see is no longer running but am forever grateful for.
Get it in eBook or paperback: buy.bookfunnel.com/netbbw767l
#Booksky #IndieAuthor
Get it in eBook or paperback: buy.bookfunnel.com/netbbw767l
#Booksky #IndieAuthor
November 23, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Still Water, Skin is out in the world today! This month, five years ago during Covid, I wrote most of the first draft during #NaNoWriMo, which I'm sad to see is no longer running but am forever grateful for.
Get it in eBook or paperback: buy.bookfunnel.com/netbbw767l
#Booksky #IndieAuthor
Get it in eBook or paperback: buy.bookfunnel.com/netbbw767l
#Booksky #IndieAuthor
An actual hero
A U.S. postal worker on Long Island is accused of trying to help a man escape from ICE custody earlier this month, according to a federal criminal complaint: https://gothamist.visitlink.me/YNagDp
US postal worker charged with breaking man out of ICE custody on Long Island
Police arrested the worker and the man she tried to free.
gothamist.visitlink.me
November 21, 2025 at 2:32 PM
An actual hero
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"Dozens of deportees have been sent to Africa from the U.S. since July after the Trump administration struck largely secretive agreements with at least five African nations — including Eswatini, Rwanda, and South Sudan — to take migrants under a new third-country deportation program."
West African Woman Attempts Suicide After U.S. Deportation to Non-Native Country
Attorneys say African migrants, deported under controversial U.S. policy, are facing life-threatening danger.
capitalbnews.org
November 16, 2025 at 6:22 PM
"Dozens of deportees have been sent to Africa from the U.S. since July after the Trump administration struck largely secretive agreements with at least five African nations — including Eswatini, Rwanda, and South Sudan — to take migrants under a new third-country deportation program."
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TIL: There’s a UNESCO project by (mostly) African scholars known as the General History of Africa.
11 volumes, each covering a different period of the continent.
www.unesco.org/en/general-h...
11 volumes, each covering a different period of the continent.
www.unesco.org/en/general-h...
General History of Africa
A pioneering corpus covering the history of the entire African continent
www.unesco.org
November 13, 2025 at 9:52 PM
TIL: There’s a UNESCO project by (mostly) African scholars known as the General History of Africa.
11 volumes, each covering a different period of the continent.
www.unesco.org/en/general-h...
11 volumes, each covering a different period of the continent.
www.unesco.org/en/general-h...
Cover art on deck 💜
Shout out to the fine folks at MiblArt for creating the cover for Still Water, Skin! I couldn't be happier with the final result, and I'm excited to share this story with the world.
Still Water, Skin is out Nov 22 - get the first 3 chapters now: dl.bookfunnel.com/yrmely6j8y
Shout out to the fine folks at MiblArt for creating the cover for Still Water, Skin! I couldn't be happier with the final result, and I'm excited to share this story with the world.
Still Water, Skin is out Nov 22 - get the first 3 chapters now: dl.bookfunnel.com/yrmely6j8y
November 14, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Cover art on deck 💜
Shout out to the fine folks at MiblArt for creating the cover for Still Water, Skin! I couldn't be happier with the final result, and I'm excited to share this story with the world.
Still Water, Skin is out Nov 22 - get the first 3 chapters now: dl.bookfunnel.com/yrmely6j8y
Shout out to the fine folks at MiblArt for creating the cover for Still Water, Skin! I couldn't be happier with the final result, and I'm excited to share this story with the world.
Still Water, Skin is out Nov 22 - get the first 3 chapters now: dl.bookfunnel.com/yrmely6j8y
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We built a team of young Black, Asian, queer, and trans staffers at Teen Vogue, and they deserve the world. They are passionate, whip smart, and incredibly talented. Many of them are now without jobs — please consider donating to their GoFundMe: www.gofundme.com/f/help-laido...
Donate to Help Laid-Off Teen Vogue Staffers Recover, organized by Lex McMenamin
More than half the team at Teen Vogue was laid off this week by our parent com… Lex McMenamin needs your support for Help Laid-Off Teen Vogue Staffers Recover
www.gofundme.com
November 11, 2025 at 5:45 PM
We built a team of young Black, Asian, queer, and trans staffers at Teen Vogue, and they deserve the world. They are passionate, whip smart, and incredibly talented. Many of them are now without jobs — please consider donating to their GoFundMe: www.gofundme.com/f/help-laido...
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love to see it. curious which unions will respond
October 20, 2025 at 12:30 AM
love to see it. curious which unions will respond
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lol everything happening right now is about maintaining white power.
October 18, 2025 at 1:15 PM
lol everything happening right now is about maintaining white power.
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Don't resubscribe to Disney+, Hulu, and Disney Properties yet. If Kimmel gets to be authentic and they keep him on air we must keep the pressure up so that ALL the oligarchs TAKE NOTICE.
September 22, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Don't resubscribe to Disney+, Hulu, and Disney Properties yet. If Kimmel gets to be authentic and they keep him on air we must keep the pressure up so that ALL the oligarchs TAKE NOTICE.
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Read every banned book you can get your hands on. Give them as gifts. Quote from them every day.
September 1, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Read every banned book you can get your hands on. Give them as gifts. Quote from them every day.
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The commitment to dehumanizing Black women remains an enigma to me. I have no idea what we did to y'all, but I hope that in my lifetime, you leave us alone for good.
August 26, 2025 at 12:26 PM
The commitment to dehumanizing Black women remains an enigma to me. I have no idea what we did to y'all, but I hope that in my lifetime, you leave us alone for good.
Still Water, Skin, my debut #YAFantasy novel, will be released tentatively in early November. After trying my hand with querying and the traditional publishing route, I'm excited to become an #IndieAuthor and take this process into my own hands.
Learn more at my website: maried.space
#BookSky
Learn more at my website: maried.space
#BookSky
Marie D, Fantasy Author and Scholar
Marie D is a young adult fantasy author and emerging scholar of Africa and African diaspora relations.
maried.space
August 22, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Still Water, Skin, my debut #YAFantasy novel, will be released tentatively in early November. After trying my hand with querying and the traditional publishing route, I'm excited to become an #IndieAuthor and take this process into my own hands.
Learn more at my website: maried.space
#BookSky
Learn more at my website: maried.space
#BookSky
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How about that? A victory for people who actually read.
"None Of These Books Are Obscene": Judge Strikes Down Much of Florida's Book Ban Bill
In a major win for intellectual freedom, a judge rules against Florida law that led to removing hundreds of books from school libraries.
bookriot.com
August 15, 2025 at 12:48 PM
How about that? A victory for people who actually read.