mj griffin
@mjgriffin.bsky.social
books. blm. 👩🏫 student. books (contd.). sweater weather. student (contd.).
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(always open to a book rec).
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(always open to a book rec).
2025 bingo card:
- yellowstone pk
- read more fiction
- (good) coffee
- change the world
- yellowstone pk
- read more fiction
- (good) coffee
- change the world
December 31, 2024 at 7:39 PM
2025 bingo card:
- yellowstone pk
- read more fiction
- (good) coffee
- change the world
- yellowstone pk
- read more fiction
- (good) coffee
- change the world
2024 book recap synopsis:
❤️💵😔🪽😡🤦♀️📈📊🌏🧑🧑🧒🧒🪦😍🤩✊😡🥺😪🎭💼🇺🇸🌃
gotta keep reading
❤️💵😔🪽😡🤦♀️📈📊🌏🧑🧑🧒🧒🪦😍🤩✊😡🥺😪🎭💼🇺🇸🌃
gotta keep reading
December 31, 2024 at 7:36 PM
2024 book recap synopsis:
❤️💵😔🪽😡🤦♀️📈📊🌏🧑🧑🧒🧒🪦😍🤩✊😡🥺😪🎭💼🇺🇸🌃
gotta keep reading
❤️💵😔🪽😡🤦♀️📈📊🌏🧑🧑🧒🧒🪦😍🤩✊😡🥺😪🎭💼🇺🇸🌃
gotta keep reading
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My 2024 was almost beyond belief:
* The Reformatory continues to astound me with its reception. It took me seven years of pain to write and won a Bram Stoker Award, L.A. Times Book Prize, Shirley Jackson Prize, Chautauqua Award and was a New York Times Notable Book.
Readers: I am speechless.
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* The Reformatory continues to astound me with its reception. It took me seven years of pain to write and won a Bram Stoker Award, L.A. Times Book Prize, Shirley Jackson Prize, Chautauqua Award and was a New York Times Notable Book.
Readers: I am speechless.
🧵
December 31, 2024 at 6:29 PM
My 2024 was almost beyond belief:
* The Reformatory continues to astound me with its reception. It took me seven years of pain to write and won a Bram Stoker Award, L.A. Times Book Prize, Shirley Jackson Prize, Chautauqua Award and was a New York Times Notable Book.
Readers: I am speechless.
🧵
* The Reformatory continues to astound me with its reception. It took me seven years of pain to write and won a Bram Stoker Award, L.A. Times Book Prize, Shirley Jackson Prize, Chautauqua Award and was a New York Times Notable Book.
Readers: I am speechless.
🧵
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Ok, I’m on to this good book now&it’s eerie how we’ve been fighting so many of the same battles for over a century,including within our movements.Did you know the 19th century abolitionists split in 1840 over the question of the efficacy of voting? 👀😐
The Color of Abolition - Linda Hirshman
The story of the fascinating, fraught alliance among Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, and Maria Weston Chapman—and how its breakup led to the s...
www.harperacademic.com
December 10, 2024 at 8:43 PM
Ok, I’m on to this good book now&it’s eerie how we’ve been fighting so many of the same battles for over a century,including within our movements.Did you know the 19th century abolitionists split in 1840 over the question of the efficacy of voting? 👀😐
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for my constitutional law and history freaks out there, this book is sick as hell yalebooks.yale.edu/978030022321...
The Interbellum Constitution
A synthesis of legal, political, and social history to show how the post-founding generations were forced to rethink and substantially revise the U.S. consti...
yalebooks.yale.edu
December 10, 2024 at 9:56 PM
for my constitutional law and history freaks out there, this book is sick as hell yalebooks.yale.edu/978030022321...
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i hope i die
warmed
by the life that i tried
to live
— Nikki Giovanni
warmed
by the life that i tried
to live
— Nikki Giovanni
December 10, 2024 at 2:57 AM
i hope i die
warmed
by the life that i tried
to live
— Nikki Giovanni
warmed
by the life that i tried
to live
— Nikki Giovanni
want to have a q&a with my cat about the socio economic political state of the world bc she’s mighty confident tn and wondering why I’m not buying her the boujee food my aunt blessed her with … hm
December 6, 2024 at 5:43 AM
want to have a q&a with my cat about the socio economic political state of the world bc she’s mighty confident tn and wondering why I’m not buying her the boujee food my aunt blessed her with … hm
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My writing process is usually:
a) I got this
b) well, fuck
c) wait that part was real good
d) wait no that part sucks
e) I am a god of this place
f) the fuck is this shit, who do I think I am, why am I here
g) oh man I just figured it all out
h) mistakes were made
I) existential dread
a) I got this
b) well, fuck
c) wait that part was real good
d) wait no that part sucks
e) I am a god of this place
f) the fuck is this shit, who do I think I am, why am I here
g) oh man I just figured it all out
h) mistakes were made
I) existential dread
December 4, 2024 at 10:29 PM
My writing process is usually:
a) I got this
b) well, fuck
c) wait that part was real good
d) wait no that part sucks
e) I am a god of this place
f) the fuck is this shit, who do I think I am, why am I here
g) oh man I just figured it all out
h) mistakes were made
I) existential dread
a) I got this
b) well, fuck
c) wait that part was real good
d) wait no that part sucks
e) I am a god of this place
f) the fuck is this shit, who do I think I am, why am I here
g) oh man I just figured it all out
h) mistakes were made
I) existential dread
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Black people deserve to be read and to write our stories in our voice (NYT best sellers or otherwise). I made a Starter Pack of Black Authors who you can support, share, engage and loosely follow during and between book tours.
Hit Follow All.
#addtoBlackSky #AddtoBookSky
go.bsky.app/Thz8U7e
Hit Follow All.
#addtoBlackSky #AddtoBookSky
go.bsky.app/Thz8U7e
November 14, 2024 at 5:45 PM
Black people deserve to be read and to write our stories in our voice (NYT best sellers or otherwise). I made a Starter Pack of Black Authors who you can support, share, engage and loosely follow during and between book tours.
Hit Follow All.
#addtoBlackSky #AddtoBookSky
go.bsky.app/Thz8U7e
Hit Follow All.
#addtoBlackSky #AddtoBookSky
go.bsky.app/Thz8U7e
one thing putting a smile on my face these days is working with engaging older and/or less able bodied people with access to political participation ie- voter reg. or finding resources for self ed -when in later life homes. Some time my (primary) focus of interest can veil other areas-try new stuff
December 4, 2024 at 7:04 AM
one thing putting a smile on my face these days is working with engaging older and/or less able bodied people with access to political participation ie- voter reg. or finding resources for self ed -when in later life homes. Some time my (primary) focus of interest can veil other areas-try new stuff
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Given the Trump admin's promises to slash federal agencies, this article by Fred Block seems very relevant again.
Being fearful of praising government initiatives makes politicians (& others) ill prepared to defend those initiatives when they come under attack.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Being fearful of praising government initiatives makes politicians (& others) ill prepared to defend those initiatives when they come under attack.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
November 22, 2024 at 1:25 PM
Given the Trump admin's promises to slash federal agencies, this article by Fred Block seems very relevant again.
Being fearful of praising government initiatives makes politicians (& others) ill prepared to defend those initiatives when they come under attack.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Being fearful of praising government initiatives makes politicians (& others) ill prepared to defend those initiatives when they come under attack.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
feeling like her today
November 19, 2024 at 5:05 AM
feeling like her today
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NASA’s new rendering of the Christmas Tree Nebula
November 18, 2024 at 5:52 AM
NASA’s new rendering of the Christmas Tree Nebula
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Off to Boston for the annual @susih.bsky.social conference! First on the docket: a discussion of Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Sympathizer. Second on the docket: oysters. #USIH2024 🗃️
November 14, 2024 at 11:56 AM
Off to Boston for the annual @susih.bsky.social conference! First on the docket: a discussion of Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Sympathizer. Second on the docket: oysters. #USIH2024 🗃️
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Here's a brief 🧵 of research that offers different explanations for why these patterns exist.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
October 19, 2024 at 2:53 AM
Here's a brief 🧵 of research that offers different explanations for why these patterns exist.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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good Monday morning
November 4, 2024 at 12:40 PM
good Monday morning
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I usually don’t miss Atlanta but phone banking for GA made me miss it. Most people answered with “Girl, you know I voted the first day of early vote.”And then they were on to how fun they expected the rally to be today w/ Victoria Monet & Spike Lee. Chatted like personal friends with 45+ people.
November 2, 2024 at 4:45 PM
I usually don’t miss Atlanta but phone banking for GA made me miss it. Most people answered with “Girl, you know I voted the first day of early vote.”And then they were on to how fun they expected the rally to be today w/ Victoria Monet & Spike Lee. Chatted like personal friends with 45+ people.
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Does this mean Harris wins? No. But add it to economic fundamentals, ground game, fund raising and other indicators and you can start to build a case for optimism.
This is the largest enthusiasm gap for Democrats since 2008.
October 31, 2024 at 6:27 PM
Does this mean Harris wins? No. But add it to economic fundamentals, ground game, fund raising and other indicators and you can start to build a case for optimism.
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"Many of Harlem's most prominent theaters and museums are being led by Black women who are fortifying and expanding their organizations in spite of funding cuts for libraries and arts programs & the rapid gentrification of their community."
Free link: archive.ph/2024.03.27-1...
#BlackSky #ArtSky
Free link: archive.ph/2024.03.27-1...
#BlackSky #ArtSky
The Women Who Run Harlem
Major cultural institutions in the neighborhood are changing and more relevant than ever.
www.thecut.com
October 30, 2024 at 1:50 PM
"Many of Harlem's most prominent theaters and museums are being led by Black women who are fortifying and expanding their organizations in spite of funding cuts for libraries and arts programs & the rapid gentrification of their community."
Free link: archive.ph/2024.03.27-1...
#BlackSky #ArtSky
Free link: archive.ph/2024.03.27-1...
#BlackSky #ArtSky
sitting up thinking where we will be a week from now. not that anyone is counting. 🗳️
October 31, 2024 at 4:15 AM
sitting up thinking where we will be a week from now. not that anyone is counting. 🗳️
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Skip Jeff Bezos' self serving op-ed and read this instead.
This is, unfortunately, real — Danielle Allen of Harvard, who has thought a lot about ethics and democracy
October 29, 2024 at 1:42 AM
Skip Jeff Bezos' self serving op-ed and read this instead.
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For those further interested in the political emptiness of polarization, you can read the longer, more academic screed that @dkreiss.bsky.social & I published. It’s #openaccess
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
October 28, 2024 at 8:11 PM
For those further interested in the political emptiness of polarization, you can read the longer, more academic screed that @dkreiss.bsky.social & I published. It’s #openaccess
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....