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Kaila Adia Story @doctressstory.bsky.social · 7h

Get all of them!!!!📚❣️✨🖤

16 banned books by Black authors that America needs now more than ever

This Banned Book Week, theGrio is spotlighting page-turners that have been challenged and/or banned in libraries across the U.S.

thegrio.com

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Kaila Adia Story @doctressstory.bsky.social · 7h

“...to that part in all of us, that refuses to be silent”-Audre Lorde #PraiseTheLorde #HappyNationalComingOutDay #BlackLesbianLoveAndLifeContinuesToBeLIT!!! 🌈🙏🏾🌈🙏🏾❤️💁🏾💯🎉🎉🎉🎉

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Kaila Adia Story @doctressstory.bsky.social · 7h

It is one that transcends and challenges white supremacist, homonormative, and patriarchal ideas of femininity and queerness as white. “-— Kaila Adia Story, Fear of A Black Femme, 2016

#FemmeIsAQueerIdentity #HappyNationalComingOutDay #BlackFemmeFeministFine 😆🌈💕❤️💕❤️🌈😆

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Kaila Adia Story @doctressstory.bsky.social · 7h

a Black and queer sexual identity and gender performance that is rooted in embodying a resistive femininity.

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Kaila Adia Story @doctressstory.bsky.social · 7h

“…it is only racism and heteronormative conceptions of the feminine and of the queer that prevent outsiders from seeing a Black femme identity for what it truly is:

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Kaila Adia Story @doctressstory.bsky.social · 7h

Happy #NationalComingOutDay Y’all!!! I can’t believe I’ve been out as a Black Lesbian Femme for 29 years now!!! (first came out when I was 16). From Ann Arbor to Chicago to Philly to Louisville, I’ve been living loud, and living proud for two decades everywhere and anywhere!!

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Kaila Adia Story @doctressstory.bsky.social · 8h

Legend. Rest Easy Icon. 🙏🏾✨🫶🏾🪔🕊️❣️

Diane Keaton, Oscar-Winning ‘Annie Hall’ Star, Dies at 79

Diane Keaton, who starred in "Annie Hall," has died. She was 79.

variety.com

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Kaila Adia Story @doctressstory.bsky.social · 8h

Thank you Deedee for creating this amazing space for authors, readers, and all those who love and know the power of books! Today was such a gift! 🙏🏾📖📚🫶🏾✨❣️📚📖❣️🫶🏾✨🩷❤️

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Kaila Adia Story @doctressstory.bsky.social · 8h

Mychal is just as kind and as generous as you can imagine! His session was a blessing! 1,000 thank you’s to Deedee Pecchioni Cummings, author and founding director of the Louisville Book Festival!

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Kaila Adia Story @doctressstory.bsky.social · 8h

…had a delicious lunch with Jaison who was the best company, as always, and we both got to meet Mychal Threets, the amazing PBS librarian and new host of the Reading Rainbow!!

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Kaila Adia Story @doctressstory.bsky.social · 8h

Y’all! Today was absolutely magical! We had a ball at the 2025 Louisville Book Festival!!! I got to engage with so many readers, sold out of my books, made new author friends…

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Kaila Adia Story @doctressstory.bsky.social · 3d

💜🫶🏾✨🏳️‍⚧️🥹LOVE! 🥹🏳️‍⚧️✨🫶🏾💜

This org. is helping trans kids thrive with Trans Empowerment Month - LGBTQ Nation

Trans youth under 24 can join Stand With Trans for free programming throughout October.

www.lgbtqnation.com

Kaila Adia Story @doctressstory.bsky.social · 3d

Missy was off work today and came to work with me! We had a blast on campus and looked a doll! 📚🍎✨🫶🏾❣️🩷😘🙏🏾

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Kaila Adia Story @doctressstory.bsky.social · 3d

🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🫶🏾❣️🥹LOVE 🥹❣️🫶🏾🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

21 LGBTQ+ retirement communities providing inclusive senior living - LGBTQ Nation

By 2030, nearly 7 million LGBTQ+ Americans will be over 50. These 21 LGBTQ+ retirement communities across the U.S. offer affirming housing.

www.lgbtqnation.com

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Kaila Adia Story @doctressstory.bsky.social · 4d

#Selfie 🤳🏾🤙🏾👩🏾‍🦱🪞🫦🫶🏾❤️✨🤌🏾🎯

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Kaila Adia Story @doctressstory.bsky.social · 4d

Morrison. Black Genius. 🤌🏾🍎📚✨✍🏾🖤

“To Free Someone Else”: Toni Morrison the Book Editor

A recent book on her career in publishing makes the case that the great American novelist should also be seen as a pathbreaking editor.

www.thenation.com

Kaila Adia Story @doctressstory.bsky.social · 5d

We had a wonderful weekend of art viewing! Artists & Afros 2025 was amazing!!! It was cute for the St. James Art Fair too!! Support Artists! They give us hope in the beauty and message they create! 🎨🎭🖼️🖤🤎❣️

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Kaila Adia Story @doctressstory.bsky.social · 5d

Reading is fundamental y’all! Please start reading books! 😩😒😔🤌🏾📚🎯

Editorial: A society that stops reading stops thinking

Daily reading for pleasure in the U.S. has fallen more than 40% over the past 20 years — roughly 3% per year, according to researchers at the University of Florida and University College London.

www.chicagotribune.com

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Kaila Adia Story @doctressstory.bsky.social · 5d

Libraries are portals to other lives and worlds, made accessible to all! They deserve our unyielding support and protection! 🫶🏾✨🩷📖📚🙏🏾

Kaila Adia Story @doctressstory.bsky.social · 5d

I am just now seeing this! Thank you so very much to librarian, BklynLeighH of the @bklynlibrary for recommending my book, The Rainbow Ain’t Never Been Enuf, as a 2025 Pride recommendation!

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Kaila Adia Story @doctressstory.bsky.social · 5d

This news is beyond disappointing! So many years of such great programming!!! From Dialogues on Gender, to Creative Mornings, to numerous film talkbacks, to community days!!! If one of our main art museums in our city views community as too costly! Then…you already know! 😩😒😤😡🤬

Speed Art Museum cuts education department, citing revenue pitfalls

Kentucky’s largest art museum gutted its Learning, Engagement and Belonging department in charge of education programs and community outreach.

www.lpm.org

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Kaila Adia Story @doctressstory.bsky.social · 9d

I cannot wait to visit Gladys Books & Wine!! 🖤🤎📚✨❤️🧡💛🫶🏾🤍🩷💜✨📚🖤🤎

This new Black lesbian bookstore in Brooklyn is coming for your brain - LGBTQ Nation

Books, said the owner, are an antidote to “chronic online-ness.”

www.lgbtqnation.com

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Kaila Adia Story @doctressstory.bsky.social · 9d

This kind of feedback always makes my day! Thank you so very much beloved! It was an honor and pleasure to be amongst so many folks who committed to our youth and ourselves inhabiting a safer and healthier world!!🙏🏾🌻💜😊🫶🏾✨

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Kaila Adia Story @doctressstory.bsky.social · 9d

This kind of feedback always makes my day! Thank you so very much beloved! It was an honor and pleasure to be amongst so many folks who committed to our youth and ourselves inhabiting a safer and healthier world!!🙏🏾🌻💜😊🫶🏾✨

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