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Lawrence Everett Forbes

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Black queer writer, painter, caregiver, and former game-show contestant. Current (2025) Lambda Literary Fellow. As seen in the New York Times, Newsweek, WIRED, and on Wheel of Fortune. | bohemiandork.com. 🇺🇸🇻🇨🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🩼♿️

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Lawrence Everett Forbes @bohemiandork.com · Nov 14

Are You Mad? (2021)
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Acrylic and gel medium on canvas

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Steve Lucas @steve-lucas.bsky.social · 23h

INKTOBER 2025
Day 22 - Button

#Inktober #Inktober2025 #Sketch #ink #Art #Day22 #Button

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Danyel Smith @danyelsmith.bsky.social · 8h

your new SHINE BRIGHT HQ newsletter is here. the screen grab does make sense w the headline open.substack.com/pub/shinebri...

tearing down The People's House is a response to No Kings

hating-ass abusers all have the same game plan

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Nieman Storyboard @niemanstoryboard.org · 5h

"I'm not saying we have to be pack rats. But to just throw away words that you've written — or for me, sometimes it's even concert stuff, or photos from old phones — I mean, I'm worth keeping." — @danyelsmith.bsky.social

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Danyel Smith on developing taste as a writer and building confidence to tell your own story - Nieman Storyboard

The award-winning journalist, author, and producer shares lessons from across many forms and genres — from running Vibe magazine to writing her memoir, “Shine Bright”

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Michael Harriot @michaelharriot.bsky.social · 4d

How to indict your political enemies:

Step 1. Appoint an AG who went to law school in a hotel
Step 2: Replace career prosecutors with an insurance lawyer who never prosecuted a federal case
Step 3: Hire an FBI director with zero years in law enforcement
Step 4: Let them cook

What a meritocracy!

Trump's DOJ Is White DEI

The Trump Administration's Justice Department is filled with incompetent, unqualified people who personify the conservatives definition of a "diversity hire."

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Lawrence Everett Forbes @bohemiandork.com · 4d

I’m going! Just bought my ticket!

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Lois Beckett @loisbeckett.bsky.social · 4d

Charlottesville finally took down its Confederate monuments in 2021.

The statue of Robert E. Lee was melted down.

The statue of Stonewall Jackson was given to artist Kara Walker.

This is what she did with it:

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Breathtaking, unsettling, healing: a new exhibit by Black US artists transforms Confederate monuments

The sweeping exhibition Monuments opens in Los Angeles on 23 October and is on view through May

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Danyel Smith @danyelsmith.bsky.social · 4d

everything post her first marriage tbh

nai THEE corpse bride 🦋 @astoldbynai.blacksky.app · 5d

2. What is your favorite era of Mariah?

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Lawrence Everett Forbes @bohemiandork.com · 5d

The minimum wage was $3.35 when I started working in 1985. Forty years later, it’s $7.25, which is sickening and should be the salary of our senators and representatives.

Lawrence Everett Forbes @bohemiandork.com · 7d

MOOD: Livin' In Desperate Times » Olivia Newton-John » youtu.be/xUjV2DAQ684

Olivia Newton-John - (Livin' In) Desperate Times (1984)

YouTube video by Remember The 80s

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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 8d

This is delicious, especially the dispute with TBN, as Dr. Phil and they appear to deserve each other

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How Dr. Phil Blew It

When he signed off his talk show in 2023, he pivoted to MAGA politics. It’s not working so well for him.

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 10d

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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Lawrence Everett Forbes @bohemiandork.com · 9d

It's a difficult book publishing climate, but former @susanshapiro.bsky.social students have recently sold brilliant novels, memoirs, short story & essay collections, kidlit, travel books, self-help, biographies & anthologies to both big & small houses. Check out how for free!

Lawrence Everett Forbes @bohemiandork.com · 9d

The folks at Adidas should make galoshes, because I’m not about this walking-around-in-wet-socks life. No thank you!

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Very Old Pic of D. Gray @blurbette.blacksky.app · 9d

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Lawrence Everett Forbes @bohemiandork.com · 9d

Exactly! 🎯

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Danyel Smith @danyelsmith.bsky.social · 10d

I say it like I know it’s impossible and like the concept is funny. And like because it’s ridiculous, it has to be easy shinebrighthq.substack.com/p/a-bona-fid...

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newsoneofficial.bsky.social @newsoneofficial.bsky.social · 10d

[OP-ED] In South Carolina, authorities are investigating a fire that destroyed the gated community home of state Circuit Judge Diane Goodstein and her husband, former Democratic state Sen. Arnold Goodstein.

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SC Judge Who Ruled Against Trump's House Catches Fire

South Carolina authorities are investigating a fire that destroyed the gated community home of state Circuit Judge Diane Goodstein and her husband, former Democratic state Sen. Arnold Goodstein.

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Lawrence Everett Forbes @bohemiandork.com · 10d

Keyshia, please!

a little girl is sitting on a couch and making a funny face and saying sorry not sorry .

ALT: a little girl is sitting on a couch and making a funny face and saying sorry not sorry .

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Lawrence Everett Forbes @bohemiandork.com · 12d

Check out this powerful piece by @carmencusido.bsky.social & @emilliomesa.bsky.social! #eating #eatingdisorders

The Weight We Carry: Unpacking Eating Disorders Sin Vergüenza

Our Heritage Month offers a critical moment to talk about the often-hidden experiences of eating disorders in Latine communities.

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Lawrence Everett Forbes @bohemiandork.com · 12d

My new goal: to find a phone case & wallet combo that isn’t painfully bulky. Prayers up!

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Listening Habit @listeninghabit.bsky.social · 14d

Algorithmic filter bubbles got you sonically pigeon-holed?

Find some new inspo among the gems on this recent discoveries playlist:

Catchy Colombian triphop, stone-cold jazz, rewarding underground rap, international funk grooves, transcendent bangers, and more.

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Listening Habit - Recent Finds -… - Playlist by Listening Habit

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josh @joshjenks.bsky.social · 14d

SO excited for this one! 👻 Foreground's BLACK/GAY/stuck at home is back with SPOOKY - a night of Black queer horror. Featuring THE MARK OF LILITH (1986's rarely seen Black lesbian vampire film), THE QUIET ROOM, & AXEL'S NIGHT. Plus Q&A! Register (for free!): www.intheforeground.org/events/black...

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Lawrence Everett Forbes @bohemiandork.com · 14d

That's got to be nice, sometimes. I get (and dig) it.

Lawrence Everett Forbes @bohemiandork.com · 14d

I managed to see SNL for the first (and second) time last year, having seen the Live Show with Chris Rock & Gracie Adams and the Dress Rehearsal with Jon Hamm & Lizzo. Don't think I'll be trying that again this year, though. It's checked off the Bucket List.

Lawrence Everett Forbes @bohemiandork.com · 14d

And a WHITE priest at that! We really are in a race between education and catastrophe, aren't we?

Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 14d

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.