Evie Shockley
seminewblack.bsky.social
Evie Shockley
@seminewblack.bsky.social
poet & literary scholar, people-oriented introvert, optimist of the will

https://linktr.ee/evieshockley
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rest in peace, Faith Ringgold
April 13, 2024 at 10:00 PM
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Oh you thought the earthquake before the eclipse was wild? Mount Etna in Sicily is sending out volcanic Spaghetti-O's right now: apnews.com/video/italy-...
Mount Etna blows spectacular smoke rings into the sky
Mount Etna in Sicily, the largest active volcano in Europe, has been blowing spectacular “smoke rings” into the sky since Wednesday.
apnews.com
April 8, 2024 at 4:56 PM
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They're talking about water being diverted from crops to data centers.
April 4, 2024 at 3:36 PM
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Octavia E. Butler predicted that we will soon have ballots that only have the candidates' photos because most won't be able to read and people will decide based on who looks "presidential" and tells them what they want to hear.
February 25, 2024 at 8:13 PM
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In just three weeks we're hosting--online--poet & scholar @seminewblack.bsky.social who will explore how Black #poetry and other artwork 1990-2015 engaged/interrogated the period's dominant ideology of "colorblindness," looking especially at intersections of text & image. Free: register today!
Evie Shockley: "Black Graphics: Slavery and Black Women's Bodies (of Work)"
The Rutgers professor and poet will share her current research.
cla.umn.edu
March 7, 2024 at 5:58 PM
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May His Memory be for a Revolution
Righteous Torrence "TK" Hill (Chevy) was murdered on February 29, 2024 in Atlanta, GA. He was a Black Trans man and the founder and owner a full service salon dedicated to the LGBTQ+ community. His murder has received little to no MSM coverage. In these times, we cannot be silent. Please Reskeet.
March 11, 2024 at 2:15 AM
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Quite the #Oscars image by @vpsreports.bsky.social
March 11, 2024 at 12:12 AM
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This is a relief: researchers who test the tests confirm that COVID rapid home tests are sensitive to new variants. Please test whenever you feel even slightly sick or have been exposed to COVID. You can have it and transmit it without symptoms 🧪 www.scientificamerican.com/article/covi...
COVID Rapid Tests Reliably Detect New Variants
Researchers who “test the tests” say that COVID rapid tests have kept up with new variants
www.scientificamerican.com
March 4, 2024 at 1:53 PM
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It will be sold online and in the family planning aisle of drugstores, convenience stores and supermarkets later this month, the manufacturer announced Monday.
First over-the-counter birth control pill heads to stores
Women will be able to buy the pill without a prescription later this month at pharmacies and grocery stores.
www.npr.org
March 4, 2024 at 4:36 PM
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We never ask this about bombs.
March 3, 2024 at 4:34 PM
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That's so weird I must have missed the nyt breaking news alert
“There were plenty of moments during Mr Trump’s campaign events in Greensboro, North Carolina and later in Richmond when he appeared to struggle to deliver his speech or seemed to be confused.”

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Trump crowd goes silent as he confuses Biden and Obama again
‘Putin has so little respect for Obama that he’s starting to throw around the nuclear word,’ Trump says
www.independent.co.uk
March 3, 2024 at 9:54 PM
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Picture below is of bird straddling two flowers with both legs apart like Van Damme.
March 4, 2024 at 3:05 PM
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What does it mean to unmake history? To sound a future one. Don't miss today's episode with Canisia Lubrin, about her 59 stories that, alongside Torkwase Dyson, with pen and with brush, unmake the 59 Black codes of King Louis XIV. Audio: tinhouse.com/podcast/cani...
Canisia Lubrin : Code Noir - Tin House
Award-winning poet Canisia Lubrin talks about her debut fiction, Code Noir. The fifty-nine stories in this collection are each prefaced by one of Louis XIV’s fifty-nine “Black codes,” the rules of con...
tinhouse.com
February 26, 2024 at 4:03 PM
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It’s truly amazing to see this particular comic traveling around social media uncredited and apparently edited. Original from FB on left.

Artist: eat the rich comedian / FB
eattherich_comic / IG
February 29, 2024 at 10:30 PM
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Being a Christian and a capitalist requires way more theological creativity than being Christian and LGBTQ-affirming IMO
March 1, 2024 at 10:02 PM
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The February 2024 Lights & Shadows Poetry Book Giveaway is accepting entries through the end of the month. Read the rules and enter at the link to win a free poetry book of your choice for you and a friend!
www.cortneylamarcharleston.com/lights-shado...
February 16, 2024 at 7:28 PM
What other forms of knowledge are too expensive to maintain, Duke U? Asking for a society.
sad news - Duke University decided to dump their herbarium, which has over 800,000 plant specimens, one of the largest among in America, and includes many type specimens of Lady Gaga ferns. What a shame. Please stop Duke admins for making this horrible mistake!!
February 15, 2024 at 1:33 PM
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Ouch damn
February 12, 2024 at 11:06 PM
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Library Folks: A new article co-written by me dropped today - The Library is NOT for Everyone (Yet)
Disability, Accommodations, and Working in Libraries. I hope you will take a look 👀 crln.acrl.org/index.php/cr...
February 7, 2024 at 3:00 AM
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Happy Lunar New Year! 🐉
February 9, 2024 at 2:36 PM