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Shannon aka Shamwow
@shannonxl.bsky.social
Extremely strange human. Unsettlingly sincere about it.
Cassiel's Servant by Jacqueline Carey & The City We Became by NK Jemisin!
November 12, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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My final piece for @teenvogue.com politics section was a piece titled "There's a Steep Price to Ignoring Black Expertise" and boy has that come full circle.

Thank you @allegrak.bsky.social and the politics editorial team for turning this Head Start kid into a Black woman who writes for the public.
There’s a Steep Cost for Ignoring Black Expertise
We live in a world bent on undermining Black life.
www.teenvogue.com
November 4, 2025 at 1:48 AM
maybe if you get drunk enough on wine you won't care about your skin anymore
November 2, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Madeline Miller's Circe 🔮
Jacqueline Carey's Lilias (Banewreaker/Godslayer) 🐉
Kat Howard's Sydney (An Unkindness of Magicians) 🧙‍♀️
November 2, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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The great @meganpiont.bsky.social has zines that go over this! Get 'em here! Print 'em and share 'em! bsky.app/profile/emil...
:) Zines were a thing a couple of decades ago and have become a thing again in response to the rising authoritarianism in the US.

These are how to report ICE - @meganpiont.bsky.social has designed them for about 30 different cities/areas; 16 of them have been translated into Spanish.
SALUTE zines **BE SURE TO PRINT AT 100%!** - Google Drive
drive.google.com
October 29, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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I had mtf bottom surgery and my bottom surgeon used to be a halal butcher, which means my vagina would also have been halal if it weren’t made from pulled pork
October 26, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Don't give up <3 if it was always easy everyone would do it.
October 23, 2025 at 9:28 PM
The BUSINESS of writing is less pleasant than recovering from abdominal surgery. Pitching, self-promotion, invoicing, tracking rejections... yeah all that sucks. And it does drain a bit of the magic from the act of transforming the abstract chemicals in my brain into language.
October 23, 2025 at 3:46 AM