P. Djéli Clark | The Disgruntled Haradrim
@pdjeliclark.bsky.social
Historian. Writer. Jumbie & Duppy Conqueror. Rambler of Things. Doer of Stuff. Brotha From Another Planet | pdjeliclark.com
Pinned
“What’s today?” cried Scrooge, calling downward to a boy in Sunday clothes.
“Today?” replied the boy. “Why, it’s Paperback Book Release Day sir!”
RING SHOUT paperback w/foreword by author| Tor Nightfire | 10•14•25
Out Today! #Bookrelease #horror
“Adam in the garden…”
“Today?” replied the boy. “Why, it’s Paperback Book Release Day sir!”
RING SHOUT paperback w/foreword by author| Tor Nightfire | 10•14•25
Out Today! #Bookrelease #horror
“Adam in the garden…”
The annual Penn Center Heritage Day Parade in South Carolina celebrates the Gullah Geechee people. But after several years of traffic complaints, the parade has been scaled back. Black residents say a new route makes it feel as if their legacy is vanishing.
For a Distinctive Black Culture, a Rerouted Parade Feels Like Erasure
www.nytimes.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:03 PM
The annual Penn Center Heritage Day Parade in South Carolina celebrates the Gullah Geechee people. But after several years of traffic complaints, the parade has been scaled back. Black residents say a new route makes it feel as if their legacy is vanishing.
“The fifth Negro tooth belonging to George Washington came by unexplained means from a conjure man… He had been one of the tens of thousands of slaves during the war who answered the call put out by the Earl of Dunmore, Royal Governor of Virginia in November 1775”
The Black Loyalists
Thousands of African Americans fought for the British—then fled the United States to avoid a return to enslavement.
www.theatlantic.com
November 7, 2025 at 3:33 PM
“The fifth Negro tooth belonging to George Washington came by unexplained means from a conjure man… He had been one of the tens of thousands of slaves during the war who answered the call put out by the Earl of Dunmore, Royal Governor of Virginia in November 1775”
WANT!
November 6, 2025 at 2:51 PM
WANT!
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“She tasked the Universal Association of Ethiopian Women, her organizing home which until then had largely been advocating for Black men on death row, with researching historical claims to reparations for Black Americans.”
In books: From her roots in southern Louisiana to her years pounding the pavement in Harlem as an organizer for the Communist Party to her reignition of the modern reparations movement, Audley “Queen Mother” Moore’s story offers potent lessons for today’s organizers.
The ‘Queen Mother’ of the Reparations Movement Gets Her Due
A UT-Austin historian tells the under-told story of Audley Moore, “one of the most important activists and theorists of the twentieth century.”
www.texasobserver.org
November 5, 2025 at 4:33 PM
“She tasked the Universal Association of Ethiopian Women, her organizing home which until then had largely been advocating for Black men on death row, with researching historical claims to reparations for Black Americans.”
What a night. From VA to NJ to PA to NYC. You love to see it. Good job everybody. Good trouble.
November 5, 2025 at 3:05 AM
What a night. From VA to NJ to PA to NYC. You love to see it. Good job everybody. Good trouble.
“Historians, librarians and volunteers are racing to document museum displays and historical records they fear the Trump administration will remove or alter.”
A small army is racing against time and Trump to preserve U.S. history
Like 'monks' in the Middle Ages, volunteers are working to preserve cultural treasures they fear are under threat from President Trump’s war against 'woke.'
www.latimes.com
November 5, 2025 at 12:16 AM
“Historians, librarians and volunteers are racing to document museum displays and historical records they fear the Trump administration will remove or alter.”
“Ezra Douthglesias” is WILD… I have to go lay down now.
One time. The GOP has won more than 50% of the popular vote <one time> since 1992. And yet, every day, you are bombarded with Takes™️ from Ezra Douthglesias about how deeply unpopular The Democrats and their policy platform are, without any reflection on how the same standard applies to the GOP.
The Dems have won the popular vote in presidential elections six times since 1992 by roughly 5.5%(1992), 8.5%,(1996) .5%(2000), 7.3%(2008), 4%(2012), 2%(2016),and 4.5%(2020).
In that period the GOP presidential candidate has won the popular vote twice: 2.5%(2004) and 1.5%(2024).
In that period the GOP presidential candidate has won the popular vote twice: 2.5%(2004) and 1.5%(2024).
November 3, 2025 at 5:22 PM
“Ezra Douthglesias” is WILD… I have to go lay down now.
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Happy pub day to The Time Traveler's Passport, an anthology of time travel stories from me, @rfkuang.bsky.social, @olivieblake.bsky.social, @pdjeliclark.bsky.social, @pengshepherd.bsky.social and Keliane Bradley! Follow the link below to find out more and to get it!
www.amazon.com/dp/B0FN8CHTQ...
www.amazon.com/dp/B0FN8CHTQ...
November 3, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Happy pub day to The Time Traveler's Passport, an anthology of time travel stories from me, @rfkuang.bsky.social, @olivieblake.bsky.social, @pdjeliclark.bsky.social, @pengshepherd.bsky.social and Keliane Bradley! Follow the link below to find out more and to get it!
www.amazon.com/dp/B0FN8CHTQ...
www.amazon.com/dp/B0FN8CHTQ...
Happy Halloween
October 31, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Happy Halloween
On Nazi tattoos and the progressive search for a “great white hope”
“Now, I know for a fact that the working class in this country looks more like a Latino woman who cleans houses than it looks like Platner, a former defense contractor turned oyster farmer with some leftist political beliefs.”
“Now, I know for a fact that the working class in this country looks more like a Latino woman who cleans houses than it looks like Platner, a former defense contractor turned oyster farmer with some leftist political beliefs.”
Opinion | A Nazi Tattoo Exposes Democrats’ Greatest Weakness
www.nytimes.com
October 29, 2025 at 1:07 PM
On Nazi tattoos and the progressive search for a “great white hope”
“Now, I know for a fact that the working class in this country looks more like a Latino woman who cleans houses than it looks like Platner, a former defense contractor turned oyster farmer with some leftist political beliefs.”
“Now, I know for a fact that the working class in this country looks more like a Latino woman who cleans houses than it looks like Platner, a former defense contractor turned oyster farmer with some leftist political beliefs.”
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Congratulations to Guelph MFA alum @teresempierre.bsky.social on the release of #ASTHEEARTHDREAMS (House of Anansi), out now!
Edited by Terese Mason Pierre, this groundbreaking anthology of speculative fiction uplifts the spectacular imaginings, reflections, and hopes of Black writers in Canada.
Edited by Terese Mason Pierre, this groundbreaking anthology of speculative fiction uplifts the spectacular imaginings, reflections, and hopes of Black writers in Canada.
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October 16, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Congratulations to Guelph MFA alum @teresempierre.bsky.social on the release of #ASTHEEARTHDREAMS (House of Anansi), out now!
Edited by Terese Mason Pierre, this groundbreaking anthology of speculative fiction uplifts the spectacular imaginings, reflections, and hopes of Black writers in Canada.
Edited by Terese Mason Pierre, this groundbreaking anthology of speculative fiction uplifts the spectacular imaginings, reflections, and hopes of Black writers in Canada.
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Updating my LEGO White House
October 23, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Updating my LEGO White House
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We up! In a day FULL of stellar releases to celebrate, behold our latest issue of FIYAH! Gods and Monsters. Six stories. Three poems. All we're missing are your grabby hands! 🥰
fiyahlitmag.com/shop/issues/...
fiyahlitmag.com/shop/issues/...
October 21, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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good work, good trouble today. | We Owe Allegiance to No Crown, by Philadelphian artist John Archibald Woodside. c. 1814 | courtesy, National Portrait Gallery #nokings
October 18, 2025 at 11:17 PM
good work, good trouble today. | We Owe Allegiance to No Crown, by Philadelphian artist John Archibald Woodside. c. 1814 | courtesy, National Portrait Gallery #nokings
Sh*t, Damn, M——“
D’Angelo, the neo-soul trailblazer and modern visionary whose three albums were all heralded as classic works of art, has died at age 51.
Access the free article here: www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...
Access the free article here: www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...
October 14, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Sh*t, Damn, M——“
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what a wonderful time proving love and talking horror at the TWISTED SPINE BOOKS event in brooklyn last night. thank you to my author buds @claymcleod.bsky.social @natcassidy.bsky.social @pfracassi.bsky.social @casskhaw.bsky.social @seananmcguire.bsky.social @pdjeliclark.bsky.social HECK YEAH
October 14, 2025 at 11:48 AM
what a wonderful time proving love and talking horror at the TWISTED SPINE BOOKS event in brooklyn last night. thank you to my author buds @claymcleod.bsky.social @natcassidy.bsky.social @pfracassi.bsky.social @casskhaw.bsky.social @seananmcguire.bsky.social @pdjeliclark.bsky.social HECK YEAH
“What’s today?” cried Scrooge, calling downward to a boy in Sunday clothes.
“Today?” replied the boy. “Why, it’s Paperback Book Release Day sir!”
RING SHOUT paperback w/foreword by author| Tor Nightfire | 10•14•25
Out Today! #Bookrelease #horror
“Adam in the garden…”
“Today?” replied the boy. “Why, it’s Paperback Book Release Day sir!”
RING SHOUT paperback w/foreword by author| Tor Nightfire | 10•14•25
Out Today! #Bookrelease #horror
“Adam in the garden…”
October 14, 2025 at 4:50 PM
“What’s today?” cried Scrooge, calling downward to a boy in Sunday clothes.
“Today?” replied the boy. “Why, it’s Paperback Book Release Day sir!”
RING SHOUT paperback w/foreword by author| Tor Nightfire | 10•14•25
Out Today! #Bookrelease #horror
“Adam in the garden…”
“Today?” replied the boy. “Why, it’s Paperback Book Release Day sir!”
RING SHOUT paperback w/foreword by author| Tor Nightfire | 10•14•25
Out Today! #Bookrelease #horror
“Adam in the garden…”
Congrats to all the IGNYTE award nominees and winners—go out and buy their amazing stuff!
That's it! Congratulations winners and thank you for your contributions to such a beautiful SFFH landscape and community.
#2025IgnyteAwards
ignyteawards.fiyahlitmag.com/2025-results/
#2025IgnyteAwards
ignyteawards.fiyahlitmag.com/2025-results/
2025 Results - The Ignyte Awards
OUTSTANDING NOVEL: ADULT for novel-length work (40k words) Works intended for an adult audience BLACKHEART MAN – Nalo Hopkinson (S&S/Saga Press) METAL FROM HEAVEN – August Clarke (Erewhon Books) THE E...
ignyteawards.fiyahlitmag.com
October 13, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Congrats to all the IGNYTE award nominees and winners—go out and buy their amazing stuff!
fun fact—in The Dead Cat Tail Assassins, ants & yogurt are a rare delicacy.
Scientists revive old Bulgarian recipe to make yogurt with ants. Ants carry lactic and acetic acid bacteria that help coagulate milk, as well as formic acid to acidify it. They even partnered with Danish chefs to create three recipes using ant yogurt. arstechnica.com/science/2025...
Scientists revive old Bulgarian recipe to make yogurt with ants
Ants carry lactic and acetic acid bacteria that help coagulate milk, as well as formic acid to acidify it.
arstechnica.com
October 4, 2025 at 1:51 PM
fun fact—in The Dead Cat Tail Assassins, ants & yogurt are a rare delicacy.
yup. I’m not sticking around to figure out what that spooky sh*t is. your first warning is that I’m already gone. #nope
HEROINE: And we’ll have @pdjeliclark.bsky.social be our getaway driver!
CLARK: I will call you from the other side of the street. “Heard a noise. I’m out. Just thought you should know.”
CLARK: I will call you from the other side of the street. “Heard a noise. I’m out. Just thought you should know.”
October 3, 2025 at 4:47 PM
yup. I’m not sticking around to figure out what that spooky sh*t is. your first warning is that I’m already gone. #nope
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Here is the Goodreads article number 2!
www.goodreads.com/blog/show/30...
@sgj.bsky.social @angelaslatter.bsky.social @pdjeliclark.bsky.social @delilahsdawson.bsky.social @spookypurcell.bsky.social @daviddemchuk.com @tananarivedue.bsky.social
www.goodreads.com/blog/show/30...
@sgj.bsky.social @angelaslatter.bsky.social @pdjeliclark.bsky.social @delilahsdawson.bsky.social @spookypurcell.bsky.social @daviddemchuk.com @tananarivedue.bsky.social
Horror for Beginners: A Guide to Horror Reading Based on Your Go-To Genre
Sadie Hartmann (known as Mother Horror on social media) is the co-owner of the monthly, curated, horror fiction subscription company Night Worms and...
www.goodreads.com
October 2, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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Whoa! Check out all the horror writers! Definitely the funniest talk I've been to. From tonight's BN Union Square Terror & Tales Panel.
Featuring: @natcassidy.bsky.social @tkingfisher.com @pdjeliclark.bsky.social @casskhaw.bsky.social & Maddie Martinez.
Featuring: @natcassidy.bsky.social @tkingfisher.com @pdjeliclark.bsky.social @casskhaw.bsky.social & Maddie Martinez.
October 3, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Whoa! Check out all the horror writers! Definitely the funniest talk I've been to. From tonight's BN Union Square Terror & Tales Panel.
Featuring: @natcassidy.bsky.social @tkingfisher.com @pdjeliclark.bsky.social @casskhaw.bsky.social & Maddie Martinez.
Featuring: @natcassidy.bsky.social @tkingfisher.com @pdjeliclark.bsky.social @casskhaw.bsky.social & Maddie Martinez.