Nisi Shawl
@nisishawl.bsky.social
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Nisi Shawl
@nisishawl.bsky.social
· Apr 6
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ASĘ Giving honor to the head of the house and the oldest ancestor we all have
In whites for the next nine days to honor Obatala, one of 17,000 Yoruba deities. Obatala's name translates literally to "owner of white cloth." He owns our bones. He dwells in clouds, on mountain tops, and in commitment to good character.
December 7, 2025 at 8:25 PM
ASĘ Giving honor to the head of the house and the oldest ancestor we all have
In whites for the next nine days to honor Obatala, one of 17,000 Yoruba deities. Obatala's name translates literally to "owner of white cloth." He owns our bones. He dwells in clouds, on mountain tops, and in commitment to good character.
December 7, 2025 at 6:02 PM
In whites for the next nine days to honor Obatala, one of 17,000 Yoruba deities. Obatala's name translates literally to "owner of white cloth." He owns our bones. He dwells in clouds, on mountain tops, and in commitment to good character.
Agiftfromtodd comes through again: www.youtube.com/shorts/msQkm...
Luther x Muffin Man
YouTube video by A Gift From Todd
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December 6, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Agiftfromtodd comes through again: www.youtube.com/shorts/msQkm...
Mid-pot dispensary run I asked my niece if she thought she could possibly be an addict. Her response: "Maybe. But the world is on fire and I got other things to worry about." Cut to the truth, baby.
December 6, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Mid-pot dispensary run I asked my niece if she thought she could possibly be an addict. Her response: "Maybe. But the world is on fire and I got other things to worry about." Cut to the truth, baby.
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That makes sense & ICE are so over their heads. NOLA is a city where people start organizing for things in childhood, raising money, joining hands, helping each other along—& standing up without needing someone white in a suit to tell them what to do. Plus trust in their spiritual resources.
December 5, 2025 at 12:31 AM
That makes sense & ICE are so over their heads. NOLA is a city where people start organizing for things in childhood, raising money, joining hands, helping each other along—& standing up without needing someone white in a suit to tell them what to do. Plus trust in their spiritual resources.
I feel like NOLA has been the core target all along. The other cities matter for more than practice, but to challenge us in our vudu belly is such a White Supremacist tactic. These fools. @alexjennings.bsky.social, do I got it?
December 4, 2025 at 10:49 PM
I feel like NOLA has been the core target all along. The other cities matter for more than practice, but to challenge us in our vudu belly is such a White Supremacist tactic. These fools. @alexjennings.bsky.social, do I got it?
Amazing! The African Translation Project is 98% funded--we are so doing this! ko-fi.com/africantrans...
Support African Translation Project
African Translation Project / We're overdue - let's rally this. / please see - please share / After nine months - let's complete funding for the translation of Zvinobvinza to: The Crocodile Doesn't Hu...
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December 3, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Amazing! The African Translation Project is 98% funded--we are so doing this! ko-fi.com/africantrans...
This could be so sweet! Hoping to meet the goal: ko-fi.com/africantrans...
Support African Translation Project
African Translation Project / We're overdue - let's rally this. / please see - please share / After nine months - let's complete funding for the translation of Zvinobvinza to: The Crocodile Doesn't Hu...
ko-fi.com
December 1, 2025 at 10:48 PM
This could be so sweet! Hoping to meet the goal: ko-fi.com/africantrans...
Here's a list featuring @margaret.bsky.social and me: lithub.com/100-notable-... We're small! We're notable!
100 Notable Small Press Books of 2025
The idea of 100 Notable Small Press Books was born November 2024, after The New York Times’s annual 100 Notable Books list featured eighty-two books from the Big Five publishing houses (Pengu…
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December 1, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Here's a list featuring @margaret.bsky.social and me: lithub.com/100-notable-... We're small! We're notable!
I've signed up for this Seashell event spent in renewal and joy in the sacredness of water : www.yeyeluisahteish.com
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November 29, 2025 at 6:58 AM
I've signed up for this Seashell event spent in renewal and joy in the sacredness of water : www.yeyeluisahteish.com
I need a husband. Or a wife. Or a mother alive. Someone to tell me everything is all right.
November 28, 2025 at 6:00 PM
I need a husband. Or a wife. Or a mother alive. Someone to tell me everything is all right.
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Some of you may know that I curate a huge reading list if Palestinian fantasy, science fiction, and horror. It is not up to date… Please comment if you identify as Palestinian, or if you know of something that should be in the list! Please share for visibility. soniasulaiman.com/readpalestin...
Read Palestinian Speculative Fiction Reading List
The following is a growing reading list for the #ReadPalestinianSpecFic challenge. This is a work in progress to create a list of all available Palestinian speculative fiction. Novels: Novels by Na…
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November 26, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Some of you may know that I curate a huge reading list if Palestinian fantasy, science fiction, and horror. It is not up to date… Please comment if you identify as Palestinian, or if you know of something that should be in the list! Please share for visibility. soniasulaiman.com/readpalestin...
You all deserve treats for being so naughty and so nice. Here you go; I took extra care with my headwrap this morning.
November 25, 2025 at 5:54 PM
You all deserve treats for being so naughty and so nice. Here you go; I took extra care with my headwrap this morning.
This world is holy to me because it's the world in which my mother lived.
November 25, 2025 at 12:30 AM
This world is holy to me because it's the world in which my mother lived.
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to stick with it!
Anything you could share is welcome! Any sharing with your network also helps! And I'm already grateful! Thank you so much!
gofund.me/ce21d48c2
Anything you could share is welcome! Any sharing with your network also helps! And I'm already grateful! Thank you so much!
gofund.me/ce21d48c2
Donate to Keep LP in School Spring 2026, organized by LP Kindred
Hey y'all,
I'm LP Kindred, a Chicagoan-Angeleno writer/editor/teaching artist/culture work… LP Kindred needs your support for Keep LP in School Spring 2026
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November 19, 2025 at 10:20 PM
to stick with it!
Anything you could share is welcome! Any sharing with your network also helps! And I'm already grateful! Thank you so much!
gofund.me/ce21d48c2
Anything you could share is welcome! Any sharing with your network also helps! And I'm already grateful! Thank you so much!
gofund.me/ce21d48c2
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I'm immensely grateful to everyone who deemed me worthy of this award. Everyone who read "From Across Time" and said, yes, I'll vote for that. Thank you. It means a lot.
And thank you to @clarkesworldmagazine.com for publishing this story.
And thank you to @clarkesworldmagazine.com for publishing this story.
November 21, 2025 at 8:39 AM
I'm immensely grateful to everyone who deemed me worthy of this award. Everyone who read "From Across Time" and said, yes, I'll vote for that. Thank you. It means a lot.
And thank you to @clarkesworldmagazine.com for publishing this story.
And thank you to @clarkesworldmagazine.com for publishing this story.
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ICE arrests McMinnville High School student during Friday lunch period (Holly Bartholomew/OPB)
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November 22, 2025 at 5:55 AM
ICE arrests McMinnville High School student during Friday lunch period (Holly Bartholomew/OPB)
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That deeply groovin voice for diverse kid lit @leeandlow.bsky.social put my Midwest fantasy Speculation 40% off! Go to their site www.leeandlow.com/books/specul... to buy it and and enter the magic word BTS2025 when you check out and holyhooptio! You're saving yourself six bucks!
Speculation
A wonderful middle-grade fantasy debut about Black families, family history, family curses ... and a really marvelous pair of spectacles.
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November 22, 2025 at 12:58 AM
That deeply groovin voice for diverse kid lit @leeandlow.bsky.social put my Midwest fantasy Speculation 40% off! Go to their site www.leeandlow.com/books/specul... to buy it and and enter the magic word BTS2025 when you check out and holyhooptio! You're saving yourself six bucks!
Hill's smile in the photo of her and Bill going in for questioning re: Epstein is the smile of someone inwardly gritting their teeth and trying not to blurt out I TOLD YOU SO I TOLD YOU SO I TOLD EVERY LAST ONE OF YOU SO MUCH SO
November 21, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Hill's smile in the photo of her and Bill going in for questioning re: Epstein is the smile of someone inwardly gritting their teeth and trying not to blurt out I TOLD YOU SO I TOLD YOU SO I TOLD EVERY LAST ONE OF YOU SO MUCH SO
At least *some* of the kids are all right. My 25-year-old niece grouses that critical thinking is a lost art. I hear the initials A and I are being used as a synonym for the initials BS. At least some of the time.
November 21, 2025 at 5:15 PM
At least *some* of the kids are all right. My 25-year-old niece grouses that critical thinking is a lost art. I hear the initials A and I are being used as a synonym for the initials BS. At least some of the time.
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They’re going to regulate whistles before guns aren’t they?
November 18, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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Good morning and thank you!🤗
November 18, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Good morning and thank you!🤗
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Weeping as I listen to Porgy and Bess, Gershwin's gorgeous masterpiece and a staple soundtrack in my childhood. I was raised and nourished on the insuperable. The simplicity, the glory: "Old Man Sorrow's sittin by the fireplace, lyin all night long by me in my bed." www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZ1e...
Porgy And Bess Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1959)
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November 17, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Weeping as I listen to Porgy and Bess, Gershwin's gorgeous masterpiece and a staple soundtrack in my childhood. I was raised and nourished on the insuperable. The simplicity, the glory: "Old Man Sorrow's sittin by the fireplace, lyin all night long by me in my bed." www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZ1e...
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If bookstagrammers/book toilers don’t start reversing the camera so titles aren’t backwards, I swear to God…
I don’t care about you making faces! Let me read the title!
I don’t care about you making faces! Let me read the title!
November 17, 2025 at 5:40 PM
If bookstagrammers/book toilers don’t start reversing the camera so titles aren’t backwards, I swear to God…
I don’t care about you making faces! Let me read the title!
I don’t care about you making faces! Let me read the title!